Paul Schrader

Known for WritingBorn 1946-07-22 (age 79)Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Raging Bull: Before the Fight

Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

The Book of Harth

Mr. Scorsese

Schrader's Exorcism

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Cat People: An Intimate Portrait by Paul Schrader

A Decade Under the Influence

Taxi Driver

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Raging Bull

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Hollywood Mavericks

Milius

Eames: The Architect and the Painter

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

The Last Movie Stars

Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

First Reformed

Blue Collar

The Last Temptation of Christ

Murnau, Borzage and Fox

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

American Gigolo

Making 'Taxi Driver'

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

The Yakuza

Ken San

The Road to Bresson

Light Sleeper

Tales from the Script

Bringing Out the Dead

Hardcore

Rolling Thunder

Obsession

Vulcanizadora

Talking with Ozu

Auto Focus

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Affliction

The Card Counter

The Mosquito Coast

Master Gardener

Adam Resurrected

Paul Schrader: Man in a Room

The Rules of Film Noir