Paul Schrader
Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first became widely known for writing the screenplay of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). He later continued his collaboration with Scorsese, writing or co-writing Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Bringing Out the Dead (1999). Schrader has also directed 24 films, including Blue Collar (1978), Hardcore (1979), American Gigolo (1980), Cat People (1982), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Light Sleeper (1992), Affliction (1997), and First Reformed (2017); the latter earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Schrader's work frequently depicts troubled men struggling through an existential crisis that is then punctuated by a violent, cathartic event. Raised in a strict Calvinist family, Schrader attended Calvin College before electing to pursue film studies at UCLA on the encouragement of film critic Pauline Kael. He then worked as a film scholar and critic, publishing the book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (1972) before making the transition to screenwriting in 1974. The success of Taxi Driver in 1976 brought greater attention to his work, and Schrader began directing his own films beginning with Blue Collar (co-written with his brother, Leonard Schrader). His three most recent films have been described by Schrader as a loose trilogy: First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021), and Master Gardener (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Schrader, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
(Self)
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
(Self)
Tales from the Script
(Self)
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
(Self)
The Book of Harth
(Self)
Schrader's Exorcism
(Himself)
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
(Self)
The Rules of Film Noir
(Self)
Pictures of Europe
(Self)
The Road to Bresson
(Self)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
(Self)
Making 'Taxi Driver'
(Self)
The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers
(Self)
God's Lonely Man
(Self)
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
(Self)
Best Served Cold
(Himself)
Milius
(Self)
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
(Self)
Hitchcock/Truffaut
(Self)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
(Self)
Dog Eat Dog
(El Greco)
Ken San
(Self)
A Decade Under the Influence
(Self)
Talking with Ozu
(Self)
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
(Self)
We Blew It
(Self)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
(Self)
Hollywood Mavericks
(Self)
Untitled: New Blue
(Himself (uncredited))
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
(Self)
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
(Self)
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
(Self)
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
(Self)
Godard Made in USA
(Self)
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
(Self)
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
(Self)
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
(Self)
Scene by Scene
(Self)
The Last Movie Stars
(Self)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
(Self)
Raging Bull
(Screenplay)
American Gigolo
(Director)
Light of Day
(Screenplay)
Light of Day
(Director)
The Last Temptation of Christ
(Screenplay)
Rolling Thunder
(Writer)
Cat People
(Director)
Cat People
(Screenplay)
The Mosquito Coast
(Screenplay)
Affliction
(Director)
Bringing Out the Dead
(Screenplay)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
(Writer)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
(Director)
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
(Director)
The Walker
(Director)
The Walker
(Screenplay)
The Yakuza
(Screenplay)
Auto Focus
(Director)
Witch Hunt
(Director)
The Comfort of Strangers
(Director)
Light Sleeper
(Director)
Hardcore
(Writer)
Hardcore
(Director)
Blue Collar
(Director)
Touch
(Director)
Forever Mine
(Writer)
Adam Resurrected
(Director)
Forever Mine
(Director)
Patty Hearst
(Director)
The Canyons
(Director)
There Are No Saints
(Executive Producer)
Old Boyfriends
(Writer)
First Reformed
(Writer)
Untitled: New Blue
(Director)
There Are No Saints
(Screenplay)
American Gigolo
(Writer)
Master Gardener
(Director)
Master Gardener
(Writer)
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
(Director)
Dying of the Light
(Director)
Dying of the Light
(Screenplay)
Taxi Driver
(Screenplay)
The Card Counter
(Screenplay)
Affliction
(Screenplay)
Dog Eat Dog
(Director)
Bait
(Screenplay)
Obsession
(Screenplay)
Oh, Canada
(Screenplay)
Oh, Canada
(Director)
Non Compos Mentis
(Director)
Non Compos Mentis
(Writer)
Amber Light
(Writer)
Dark
(Director)
Dark
(Writer)
City Hall
(Writer)
Touch
(Screenplay)
The Basics of Philosophy
(Director)
The Basics of Philosophy
(Writer)
Old Boyfriends
(Executive Producer)
Light Sleeper
(Screenplay)
Untitled: New Blue
(Writer)
Life from the Other Side
(Screenplay)
Blue Collar
(Screenplay)
The Card Counter
(Director)
First Reformed
(Director)
A Transcendental Film
(Director)
A Transcendental Film
(Visual Effects)
A Transcendental Film
(Camera Operator)
A Transcendental Film
(Cinematography)
Rolling Thunder
(Original Story)
Obsession
(Story)
Cybermario
(Writer)
American Johns
(Thanks)
Walk of Fame
(Thanks)
American Gigolo
(Characters)
American Gigolo
(Executive Consultant)