Paul Schrader
- Writing
- July 22, 1946 · Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Biography
Paul Joseph Schrader (/ˈʃreɪdər/; born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first became 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 worked extensively as a director: his 23 films include Blue Collar (1978), Hardcore (1979), American Gigolo (1980), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Light Sleeper (1992), Affliction (1997), and First Reformed (2017), with the last of these earning him his first Academy Award nomination. Schrader's work frequently depicts "man in a room" stories which feature isolated, troubled men confronting an existential crisis. Raised in a strict Calvinist family, Schrader attended Calvin College before pursuing 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 transitioning 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). Schrader has described three of his recent films 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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Basics of Philosophy · Director, Writer
- Best Served Cold: How a Revenge Film was Buried for Decades · Self
- Masterclass di Paul Schrader al Laceno d'Oro 48 · Self
- Ritratti di cinema · Self
- Mr. Scorsese · Self
- Vulcanizadora · Thanks
- Oh, Canada · Screenplay, Director
- Master Gardener · Director, Writer
- American Gigolo · Characters, Executive Consultant
- The Book of Harth · Self
- The Last Movie Stars · Self
- There Are No Saints · Executive producer, Screenplay
- The Card Counter · Director, Writer
- The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers · Self
- Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business · Self
- Paul Schrader: Man in a Room · Self, Thanks
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael · Self
- First Reformed · Writer, Director
- We Blew It · Self
- Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A · Self
- Dog Eat Dog · El Greco, Director
- Ken San · Self
- American Johns · Thanks
- Hitchcock/Truffaut · Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Dying of the Light · Director, Screenplay
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded · Self, Director
- The Canyons · Director
- Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic · Self
- Milius · Self
- Walk of Fame · Thanks
- Eames: The Architect and the Painter · Self
- The Story of Film: An Odyssey · Self
- Godard Made in USA · Self
- The Rules of Film Noir · Self
- Tales from the Script · Self
- Murnau, Borzage and Fox · Self
- Schrader's Exorcism · Self
- Adam Resurrected · Director
- God's Lonely Man · Self
- Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute · Self
- Producing 'Taxi Driver' · Self
- The Walker · Director, Screenplay
- Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light · Self
- Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That · Self
- Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist · Director
- Raging Bull: Before the Fight · Self
- Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz · Self
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade · Self
- Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second · Self
- A Decade Under the Influence · Self
- Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood · Self
- Auto Focus · Director
- Cat People: An Intimate Portrait by Paul Schrader · Self
- Bringing Out the Dead · Screenplay
- Forever Mine · Writer, Director
- Making 'Taxi Driver' · Self
- Affliction · Director, Screenplay
- Birth of a Nation · Self
- Scene by Scene · Self
- Touch · Director, Screenplay
- City Hall · Writer
- Untitled: New Blue · Self, Director
- Witch Hunt · Director
- Talking with Ozu · Self
- Light Sleeper · Director, Writer
- The Comfort of Strangers · Director
- Hollywood Mavericks · Self
- Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer · Self
- Pictures of Europe · Self
- Patty Hearst · Director
- The Last Temptation of Christ · Screenplay
- Light of Day · Screenplay, Director
- The Mosquito Coast · Screenplay
- Inside Mishima · Self
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters · Writer, Director
- The Road to Bresson · Self
- Cat People · Director, Screenplay
- Raging Bull · Screenplay