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May 16, 2018 · From Taxi Driver to First Reformed, Vulture evaluates the director's diverse and challenging career. See how his films explore themes of alienation, salvation, and style in different genres and settings.
- Vikram Murthi
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- 8 Cat People
- 7 Affliction
- 6 Light Sleeper
- 5 American Gigolo
- 4 The Card Counter
- 3 Blue Collar
- 2 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- 1 First Reformed
Paul Schrader's eerie and horny horror film — a remake of the 1942 Jacques Tourneur classic — Cat Peoplewas a creative excursion for the author of so many lonely, solitary movies. Although the film was sold as a horror film, it's way more concerned with the mystery and atmosphere than it is with scaring its audience. Also, tapping deep into the lus...
A deeply affecting look at the cyclical nature of trauma and the disillusionment it can cause in a man's psyche as he wrestles with reconciliation. Paul Schrader's Afflictionis a deeply troubling look at the life in a small town between the grisly Nick Nolte and his father played by James Coburn — winning him an Oscar — whose violent alcoholism thr...
One of Paul Schrader’s frequent collaborators, Willem Dafoe, shines as the distant New York drug dealer as he spends his day journaling about his lonely life and then spending nights delivering the product to his rich clientele. Including a hilariously coked-up David Spade in a cameo role, Schrader’s version of god’s lonely man in Light Sleepercont...
Paul Schader’s lonely man mixed with the classic Robert Bresson aesthetic makes for a unique foray into the world of dark eroticism transposed in American Gigolo. At times, a clear indictment of being a male sex worker but also a look at the sexual politics of those that play freely in their supposed closed relationships and who affairs harm the mo...
Oscar Isaac was Paul Schrader’s original choice to play his existential priest inFirst Reformed,but decided he wasn't old enough. Thankfully, Schrader had another great role in mind for one of the best leading men today. Isaac’s magnetism was the perfect face for a man seeking salvation through a series of poker games. With the guilt of the Iraq Wa...
A directorial debut that cut right to the heart of an anti-capitalist zeitgeist,Blue Collar was Paul Schrader's introduction to the world as a director. With a great lead trio of Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor, and Yaphet Kotto as three union workers being taken advantage of by their company, the three set off to pull off a daring heist to take back ...
The buried rage and foreboding masculinity of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima made him the perfect muse for Paul Schrader. Mishima was a controversial figure in Japan’s artistic history. Mishima took his own life on national television via ritual suicide after taking a General hostage at a military headquarters. Schrader made a film of a similar vein...
A film that gets more relevant with every passing day, First Reformed is Paul Schrader's God's lonely man complex manifest and one of the best films addressing the anxiety surrounding the climate crisis. As a priest — in a career-best performance from Ethan Hawke— already struggling with his faith and the mockery made of his parish. Hawke fails to ...
- Taxi Driver (1976) Written by Paul Schrader. “Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s no escape.
- Obsession (1976) Written by Paul Schrader. 1976’s Obsession marked the first of Brian DePalma’s soft Hitchcock remakes that would define his 80’s output with Dressed to Kill (Psycho) and Body Heat (Rear Window) by retelling Vertigo as a Euro-gothic psychodrama far more perverse than anything Hitch had the stomach to write.
- Blue Collar (1978) Co-Written and Directed by Paul Schrader. “They pit the lifers against the new boy and the young against the old. The black against the white.
- American Gigolo (1980) Written and Directed by Paul Schrader. Opening on Richard Gere’s titular gigolo driving his Benz along the Los Angeles coastline to the shiny pop sounds of Blondie’s “Call Me” this is the introduction to a very different “man in a room”.
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- 'The Godfather' (1972) Director: Francis Ford Coppola. It's hard to find anyone who dislikes The Godfather, which speaks to its status as an essentially perfect film.
- 'Metropolis' (1927) Director: Fritz Lang. 1927 was a year that saw the introduction of talkies, and so, perhaps unsurprisingly, it also stood as a year that marked a last hurrah of sorts for silent cinema.
- 'The Wild Bunch' (1969) Director: Sam Peckinpah. The Wild Bunch didn't end the Western genre for good, by any means, but it almost feels like it could've.
- 'Vertigo' (1958) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Not just one of the best films of its year, but frequently held up as one of the greatest of all time, Vertigo's reputation precedes it.
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- 'Patty Hearst' (1988) - IMDb: 6.3/10. This biographical drama tells the true story of Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst.
- 'The Comfort of Strangers' (1990) - IMDb: 6.3/10. The Comfort of Stranger s is a psychological thriller, with a script by playwright Harold Pinter based on the novel by Ian McEwan.
- 'American Gigolo' (1980) - IMDb: 6.3/10. Julian (Richard Gere) is a male escort in Los Angeles who becomes romantically entangled with Michelle (Lauren Hutton), the wife of a powerful politician.
- 'Auto Focus' (2002) - IMDb: 6.6/10. Auto Focus dramatizes the true story of Bob Crane (played by Greg Kinnear), an actor who appeared on the TV show Hogan's Heroes in the late 1960s.
Paul Schrader films ranked. by TheTerry321 | created - 12 Feb 2020 | updated - 1 month ago | Public. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. 21 titles. 1. Light Sleeper (1992) R | 103 min | Crime, Drama. 6.9. Rate. 70 Metascore.
Sep 13, 2022 · By Christopher Murphy. Published Sep 13, 2022. One of Hollywood's best writers is also a criminally underrated director. Since penning the ground-breaking screenplay for Martin Scorsese ’s...
