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.

Known For: Writing

Born: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, 1946-07-22

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1984	The Road to Bresson	Self	68
2	1985	Inside Mishima	Self	0
3	1990	Pictures of Europe	Self	0
4	1990	Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer	Self	60
5	1990	Hollywood Mavericks	Self	60
6	1993	Talking with Ozu	Self	65
7	1995	Untitled: New Blue	Himself (uncredited)	40
8	1999	Making 'Taxi Driver'	Self	69
9	2002	Cat People: An Intimate Portrait by Paul Schrader	Self	0
10	2003	Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood	Self	71
11	2003	A Decade Under the Influence	Self	80
12	2003	Sex at 24 Frames Per Second	Self	52
13	2004	Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade	Self	74
14	2004	Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz	Self	0
15	2005	Raging Bull: Before the Fight	Self	100
16	2005	Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That	Self	70
17	2006	Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light	Self	71
18	2007	God's Lonely Man	Self	60
19	2007	Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute	Self	50
20	2008	Schrader's Exorcism	Self	80
21	2008	Murnau, Borzage and Fox	Self	70
22	2009	Tales from the Script	Self	65
23	2009	The Rules of Film Noir	Self	60
24	2010	Godard Made in USA	Self	0
25	2011	Eames: The Architect and the Painter	Self	71
26	2013	Milius	Self	71
27	2013	Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic	Self	71
28	2015	Hitchcock/Truffaut	Self	73
29	2016	Ken San	Self	60
30	2016	Dog Eat Dog	El Greco	51
31	2017	We Blew It	Self	56
32	2019	What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael	Self	66
33	2020	Paul Schrader: Man in a Room	Self	60
34	2020	Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business	Self	30
35	2020	The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers	Self	0
36	2022	The Book of Harth	Self	85
37		Best Served Cold	Himself	0
38	2022	1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!	Self	80

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1997	Scene by Scene	Self	60
2	2011	The Story of Film: An Odyssey	Self	76
3	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	60
4	2022	The Last Movie Stars	Self	69

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