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Paul Schrader

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78 Years Old

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.

Born

Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA on 22nd July 1946

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Scene by Scene
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey Image
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
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Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Image
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
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The Last Movie Stars Image
The Last Movie Stars
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Dog Eat Dog Image
Dog Eat Dog
El Greco
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood Image
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade Image
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
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Milius Image
Milius
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1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! Image
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
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Sex at 24 Frames Per Second Image
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
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Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic Image
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
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Hitchcock/Truffaut Image
Hitchcock/Truffaut
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Tales from the Script Image
Tales from the Script
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Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business Image
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
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A Decade Under the Influence Image
A Decade Under the Influence
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Making 'Taxi Driver' Image
Making 'Taxi Driver'
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We Blew It Image
We Blew It
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Ken San Image
Ken San
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Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light Image
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael Image
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
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Eames: The Architect and the Painter Image
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
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Talking with Ozu
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Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That Image
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
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Godard Made in USA Image
Godard Made in USA
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Hollywood Mavericks
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Raging Bull: Before the Fight Image
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
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The Road to Bresson
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Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
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Pictures of Europe
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Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute Image
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
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The Book of Harth Image
The Book of Harth
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Inside Mishima Image
Inside Mishima
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The Rules of Film Noir Image
The Rules of Film Noir
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Best Served Cold
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God's Lonely Man Image
God's Lonely Man
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Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer Image
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
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The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers Image
The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers
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Schrader's Exorcism Image
Schrader's Exorcism
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Murnau, Borzage and Fox
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Paul Schrader: Man in a Room Image
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
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Cat People: An Intimate Portrait by Paul Schrader
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Untitled: New Blue
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