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Paul Joseph Schrader (/ ˈ ʃ r eɪ d ər /; 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).
Paul Schrader. Writer: First Reformed. Although his name is often linked to that of the "movie brat" generation (Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Brian De Palma, etc.) Paul Schrader's background couldn't have been more different than theirs. His strict Calvinist parents refused to allow him to see a film until he was 18.
May 16, 2018 · Paul Schrader didn’t see a movie until he was 17 years old, and when he finally snuck away from his strict Calvinist home to catch the Disney film The Absent-Minded Professor at a local Grand ...
Paul Schrader. Writer: First Reformed. Although his name is often linked to that of the "movie brat" generation (Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Brian De Palma, etc.) Paul Schrader's background couldn't have been more different than theirs. His strict Calvinist parents refused to allow him to see a film until he was 18.
May 17, 2024 · CANNES, France (AP) — After a string of hospitalizations for long COVID, Paul Schrader had a realization. “If I’m going to make a film about death,” Schrader told himself, “I’d better hurry up.”. The health of the 77-year-old filmmaker, whose films and scripts have covered half a century of American movies, from “Taxi Driver ...
Photos CAT PEOPLE, director Paul Schrader, 1982, ©Universal / HARDCORE, George C. Scott, director Paul Schrader, Season Hubley, on location in San Diego, 1979, (c) Columbia Pictures THE WALKER ...
May 19, 2023 · Paul Schrader: I’m just interested in the zeitgeist, what’s in the air, what’s going around. It changes, obviously, depending on the period, and as I grow older. And you can’t plan to hit ...
Jul 18, 2023 · ‘Oppenheimer’ Is the ‘Best’ and ‘Most Important Film of This Century,’ Raves Paul Schrader: ‘This One Blows the Door Off the Hinges’
Apr 22, 2021 · Paul Schrader is in the midst of one of the most illustrious careers in Hollywood history, but much of it seems to have occurred under the radar. He wrote “Taxi Driver” and “The Last ...
Aug 30, 2017 · Schrader wrote the screenplays for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ, and wrote and directed Blue Collar. He spoke in 1988 about his religious upbringing and his work in film.
