Writing
Paul Schrader
Paul Joseph Schrader (/ˈʃreɪdər/; born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first became 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 worked extensively as a director: his 23 films include Blue Collar (1978), Hardcore (1979), American Gigolo (1980), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Light Sleeper (1992), Affliction (1997), and First Reformed (2017), with the last of these earning him his first Academy Award nomination. Schrader's work frequently depicts "man in a room" stories which feature isolated, troubled men confronting an existential crisis. Raised in a strict Calvinist family, Schrader attended Calvin College before pursuing 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 transitioning 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). Schrader has described three of his recent films 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.
Filmography
Best Served Cold: How a Revenge Film was Buried for Decades
Film · 2026
Ritratti di cinema
Film · 2025
Masterclass di Paul Schrader al Laceno d'Oro 48
Film · 2025
Mr. Scorsese
Series · 2025
The Book of Harth
Film · 2022
The Last Movie Stars
Series · 2022
The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers
Film · 2020
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Film · 2020
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
Film · 2020
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Film · 2019
We Blew It
Film · 2017
Dog Eat Dog
Film · 2016
Ken San
Film · 2016
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A
Film · 2016
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Film · 2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Series · 2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Series · 2014
Milius
Film · 2013
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Film · 2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Film · 2013
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
Film · 2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Series · 2011
Godard Made in USA
Film · 2010
Tales from the Script
Film · 2009
The Rules of Film Noir
Film · 2009
Schrader's Exorcism
Film · 2008
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
Film · 2008
God's Lonely Man
Film · 2007
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
Film · 2007
Producing 'Taxi Driver'
Film · 2007
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
Film · 2006
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
Film · 2005
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Film · 2005
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
Film · 2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Film · 2004
A Decade Under the Influence
Film · 2003
Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Film · 2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Film · 2003
Cat People: An Intimate Portrait by Paul Schrader
Film · 2002
Making 'Taxi Driver'
Film · 1999
Birth of a Nation
Film · 1997
Scene by Scene
Series · 1997
Untitled: New Blue
Film · 1995
Talking with Ozu
Film · 1993
Pictures of Europe
Film · 1990
Hollywood Mavericks
Film · 1990
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
Film · 1990
Inside Mishima
Film · 1985
The Road to Bresson
Film · 1984
The South Bank Show
Series · 1978