Biography
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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Filmography
all 80
Movies 75
self 38
Director 26
Writer 9
TV Shows 5
Screenplay 5
Master Gardener (2023)
American Gigolo (2022)
The Book of Harth (2022)
The Last Movie Stars (2022)
There Are No Saints (2022)
The Card Counter (2021)
The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers (2020)
Clapboard Jungle (2020)
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room (2020)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)
First Reformed (2018)
We Blew It (2017)
Dog Eat Dog (2016)
Ken San (2016)
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015)
Dying of the Light (2014)
The Canyons (2013)
Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013)
Milius (2013)
Eames: The Architect and the Painter (2011)
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
Godard Made in USA (2010)
The Rules of Film Noir (2009)
Tales from the Script (2009)
Murnau, Borzage and Fox (2008)
Schrader's Exorcism (2008)
Adam Resurrected (2008)
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute (2007)
God's Lonely Man (2007)
The Walker (2007)
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006)
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005)
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist (2005)
Raging Bull: Before the Fight (2005)
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz (2004)
Raging Bull: Fight Night (2004)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003)
A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)
Auto Focus (2002)
Forever Mine (1999)
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Making 'Taxi Driver' (1999)
Affliction (1998)
Scene by Scene (1997)
Touch (1997)
City Hall (1996)
Untitled: New Blue (1995)
Witch Hunt (1994)
Talking with Ozu (1993)
Light Sleeper (1992)
The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
Hollywood Mavericks (1990)
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer (1990)
Picture of Europe (1990)
Patty Hearst (1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Light of Day (1987)
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
The Road to Bresson (1984)
Cat People (1982)
Raging Bull (1980)
American Gigolo (1980)
Old Boyfriends (1979)
Hardcore (1979)
Blue Collar (1978)
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Obsession (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Yakuza (1974)
Bait
Oh, Canada
Best Served Cold
Dark
Amber Light
Life from the Other Side
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1946-07-22 (77 years old)
Birth PlaceGrand Rapids, United States of America
ReligionNondenominational Christianity
SpouseMary Beth Hurt
SiblingsLeonard Schrader
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known As폴 슈레이더
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