1946-07-22 ( 78 years old ) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
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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Movies
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
2022-10-08
The Book of Harth
2022-08-10
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
2020-01-26
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019-03-22
We Blew It
2017-11-08
Dog Eat Dog
2016-11-04
Ken San
2016-08-20
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015-09-04
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013-04-23
Milius
2013-03-09
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
2011-11-18
Godard Made in USA
2010-12-11
The Rules of Film Noir
2009-08-22
Tales from the Script
2009-01-10
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
2008-12-09
Schrader's Exorcism
2008-08-23
God's Lonely Man
2007-08-14
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
2006-07-18
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005-12-21
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
2005-02-08
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
2004-12-19
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
2003-09-23
A Decade Under the Influence
2003-04-25
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003-03-09
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999-06-14
Untitled: New Blue
1995-01-01
Talking with Ozu
1993-11-27
Hollywood Mavericks
1990-09-07
Pictures of Europe
1990-04-25
Inside Mishima
1985-10-23
The Road to Bresson
1984-05-13
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