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Paul Schrader
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).
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As director
Oh, Canada
Master Gardener
The Card Counter
First Reformed
Dog Eat Dog
Dying of the Light
The Canyons
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Adam Resurrected
The Walker
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
Auto Focus
Forever Mine
Affliction
Touch
Untitled: New Blue
Witch Hunt
Light Sleeper
The Comfort of Strangers
Patty Hearst
Light of Day
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Cat People
American Gigolo
Hardcore
Blue Collar
Non Compos Mentis
The Basics of Philosophy
As actor
Ritratti di cinema
Masterclass di Paul Schrader al Laceno d'Oro 48
The Book of Harth
The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
We Blew It
Dog Eat Dog
Ken San
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Milius
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
Godard Made in USA
Tales from the Script
The Rules of Film Noir
Schrader's Exorcism
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
God's Lonely Man
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
Producing 'Taxi Driver'
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
A Decade Under the Influence