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
WritingBirthday
July 22, 1946Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
77Place of birth
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USAAlso known as
폴 슈레이더Cast credits
Tales from the Script
SelfThe Rules of Film Noir
HimselfThe Road to Bresson
SelfSam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
SelfMaking 'Taxi Driver'
SelfMilius
SelfHitchcock/Truffaut
SelfWhat She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
SelfDog Eat Dog
El GrecoKen San
SelfTalking with Ozu
SelfClapboard Jungle
A Decade Under the Influence
SelfWe Blew It
SelfRichard Pryor: Omit the Logic
SelfHollywood Mavericks
SelfUntitled: New Blue
Himself (uncredited)Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
SelfPreston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
SelfCrew credits
Raging Bull
ScreenplayLight of Day
Screenplay, DirectorAmerican Gigolo
Director, WriterThe Last Temptation of Christ
ScreenplayThe Mosquito Coast
ScreenplayRolling Thunder
Writer, StoryCat People
Director, ScreenplayAffliction
Director, ScreenplayBringing Out the Dead
ScreenplayDominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
DirectorMishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Director, WriterThe Walker
Screenplay, DirectorThe Yakuza
ScreenplayWitch Hunt
DirectorAuto Focus
DirectorThe Comfort of Strangers
DirectorLight Sleeper
Director, WriterHardcore
Director, WriterBlue Collar
Director, ScreenplayTouch
Director, WriterForever Mine
Director, Writer