Paul Schrader
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- FantasyCat People
- ActionDying of the Light
- DramaAffliction
- CrimeBlue Collar
- CrimeBlue Collar
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- DramaAffliction
- CrimeBlue Collar
- CrimeTaxi Driver
- CrimeTaxi Driver
- DocumentaryRichard Pryor: Omit the Logic
- DramaFirst Reformed
- DramaFirst Reformed
- DramaFirst Reformed
- DramaCity Hall
- ActionDog Eat Dog
- DramaThe Canyons
- CrimeLight Sleeper
- CrimeForever Mine
- AdventureThe Mosquito Coast
- DramaAdam Resurrected
- ActionThe Yakuza
- DramaMaster Gardener
- DramaThe Comfort of Strangers
- DramaPatty Hearst
- DramaOld Boyfriends
- ActionThere Are No Saints
- CrimeThe Card Counter
- CrimeThe Card Counter
- DramaRaging Bull
- CrimeAmerican Gigolo
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- DramaFirst Reformed
- DramaFirst Reformed
- ActionDog Eat Dog
- CrimeAuto Focus
- DramaObsession
- DramaObsession
- CrimeLight Sleeper
- CrimeForever Mine
- DramaMaster Gardener
- ComedyTouch
- ComedyTouch
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- ActionThere Are No Saints
- CrimeThe Card Counter
- CrimeThe Card Counter
- DramaThe Last Temptation of Christ
- DramaDominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
- CrimeAmerican Gigolo
- DramaMishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- DramaBringing Out the Dead
- CrimeHardcore
- ComedyTouch
- DramaMishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- CrimeHardcore
- CrimeRolling Thunder
- DocumentaryEames: The Architect and the Painter
- CrimeRolling Thunder
- DocumentaryHitchcock/Truffaut
- DocumentaryWe Blew It
- ActionDog Eat Dog
- DocumentaryMilius
- DocumentaryTales from the Script
- DocumentaryPaul Schrader: Man in a Room
- DocumentarySchrader's Exorcism
- DocumentaryUntitled: New Blue
- CrimeWitch Hunt
- DocumentaryVenice 70: Future Reloaded
- movieThe Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers
- DocumentaryUntitled: New Blue
- DocumentaryUntitled: New Blue
- CrimeThe Walker
- CrimeThe Walker
- DramaLight of Day
- DramaLight of Day
- DocumentaryMaking 'Taxi Driver'
- DocumentaryKen San
- DocumentaryThe Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
- DocumentaryTalking with Ozu
- DocumentaryPreston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
- DocumentaryEasy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
- DocumentaryA Decade Under the Influence
- DocumentaryClapboard Jungle
- DocumentaryThe Road to Bresson
- DocumentaryEasy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
- DocumentaryWhat She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
- DramaAmerican Gigolo
- DocumentaryThe Rules of Film Noir
- DocumentaryHollywood Mavericks
- DocumentarySex at 24 Frames Per Second
- DocumentaryGodard Made in USA
- DocumentarySam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
- DocumentaryMurnau, Borzage and Fox
- DocumentaryMänner im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
- DocumentaryFilm Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
- DocumentaryThe Last Movie Stars
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Paul Schrader
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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).
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- Place of Birth
- Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
- Known Credits
- 65
- Website
- http://paulschrader.org