Paul Schrader

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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.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1946-07-22
  • event Death Date Unknown
  • school Known for: Writing
  • star Popularity: 10.2
  • info Birth Place Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Paul Schrader

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Eames: The Architect and the Painter

2011-11-18

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Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

2004-12-19

6.7

Tales from the Script

2009-01-10

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Raging Bull: Before the Fight

2005-02-08

8.5

The Book of Harth

2022-08-10

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Schrader's Exorcism

2008-08-23

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Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

2005-12-21

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The Rules of Film Noir

2009-08-22

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Pictures of Europe

1990-04-25

6.8

The Road to Bresson

1984-05-13

7.3

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004-07-25

6.9

Making 'Taxi Driver'

1999-06-14

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The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers

2020-08-18

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God's Lonely Man

2007-08-14

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Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute

2007-08-14

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Best Served Cold

7.1

Milius

2013-03-09

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Murnau, Borzage and Fox

2008-12-09

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Hitchcock/Truffaut

2015-09-04

6.7

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

2019-03-22

5.1

Dog Eat Dog

2016-11-04

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Ken San

2016-08-20

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A Decade Under the Influence

2003-04-25

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Talking with Ozu

1993-11-27

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Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business

2020-03-26

5.6

We Blew It

2017-11-08

7.1

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

2013-04-23

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Hollywood Mavericks

1990-09-07

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Untitled: New Blue

1995-01-01

7.1

Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

2006-07-18

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Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer

1990-07-02

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Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

2003-09-23

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Paul Schrader: Man in a Room

2020-01-26

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Godard Made in USA

2010-12-11

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1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!

2022-10-08

7.1

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

2003-03-09

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Cat People: An Intimate Portrait by Paul Schrader

2002-08-27

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Inside Mishima

1985-10-23

7.6

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

2011-09-03

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Scene by Scene

1997-05-10

6.9

The Last Movie Stars

2022-07-21

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Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

2015-08-02

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Raging Bull

1980-11-14

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American Gigolo

1980-02-01

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Light of Day

1987-02-06

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Light of Day

1987-02-06

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The Last Temptation of Christ

1988-05-28

5.8

Rolling Thunder

1977-11-02

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Cat People

1982-04-02

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Cat People

1982-04-02

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The Mosquito Coast

1986-11-26

5.8

Affliction

1998-02-12

5.8

Bringing Out the Dead

1999-10-22

5.8

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

1985-09-20

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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

1985-09-20

5.8

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist

2005-05-20

5.8

The Walker

2007-02-13

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The Walker

2007-02-13

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The Yakuza

1974-12-21

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Auto Focus

2002-10-18

5.8

Witch Hunt

1994-12-10

5.8

The Comfort of Strangers

1990-11-01

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Light Sleeper

1992-08-21

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Hardcore

1979-02-09

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Hardcore

1979-02-09

5.8

Blue Collar

1978-02-10

5.8

Touch

1997-02-14

5.8

Forever Mine

1999-12-09

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Adam Resurrected

2008-08-08

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Forever Mine

1999-12-09

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Patty Hearst

1988-09-23

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The Canyons

2013-08-02

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There Are No Saints

2022-05-27

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Old Boyfriends

1979-03-22

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First Reformed

2018-05-18

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Untitled: New Blue

1995-01-01

5.8

There Are No Saints

2022-05-27

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American Gigolo

1980-02-01

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Master Gardener

2023-05-19

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Master Gardener

2023-05-19

5.8

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013-08-28

5.8

Dying of the Light

2014-12-04

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Dying of the Light

2014-12-04

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Taxi Driver

1976-02-09

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The Card Counter

2021-09-03

5.8

Affliction

1998-02-12

5.8

Dog Eat Dog

2016-11-04

5.8

Bait

5.8

Obsession

1976-08-01

5.8

Oh, Canada

2024-12-06

5.8

Oh, Canada

2024-12-06

5.8

Non Compos Mentis

5.8

Non Compos Mentis

5.8

Amber Light

5.8

Dark

2017-12-11

5.8

Dark

2017-12-11

5.8

City Hall

1996-02-16

5.8

Touch

1997-02-14

5.8

The Basics of Philosophy

5.8

The Basics of Philosophy

5.8

Old Boyfriends

1979-03-22

5.8

Light Sleeper

1992-08-21

5.8

Untitled: New Blue

1995-01-01

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Life from the Other Side

5.8

Blue Collar

1978-02-10

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The Card Counter

2021-09-03

5.8

First Reformed

2018-05-18

5.8

Rolling Thunder

1977-11-02

5.8

Obsession

1976-08-01

5.8

American Johns

2015-12-04

5.8

Walk of Fame

2012-08-31

5.8

Paul Schrader: Man in a Room

2020-01-26

5.8

American Gigolo

2022-09-11

5.8

American Gigolo

2022-09-11