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Paul Schrader is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He wrote Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ, and directed Blue Collar, Hardcore, and First Reformed.
Paul Schrader is a filmmaker known for his screenplays for Taxi Driver, Affliction and First Reformed, among others. He also directed films such as Mishima, The Canyons and Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist.
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- Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Learn about the life and career of Paul Schrader, a film critic, screenwriter and director influenced by Robert Bresson, Yasujirô Ozu and Carl Theodor Dreyer. Find out his family, awards, trivia, quotes and more on IMDb.
- July 22, 1946
May 17, 2024 · 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.”
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- Film Writer And Critic
Sep 3, 2022 · Ahead of the world premiere of Paul Schrader's latest feature, 'Master Gardener,' at the Venice Film Festival, he was nudged into casting a backward glance on his 50-year career in the movies.
May 19, 2023 · One of the greatest living filmmakers now lives in an assisted living facility in midtown Manhattan. He squints at me from across our table in the building’s 13th-floor restaurant and asks, “Do you...
Jul 21, 2023 · The writer-director of First Reformed, The Card Counter and Master Gardener talks about his philosophical and spiritual approach to cinema, his influences and his gripes with the film canon. He reveals how he revisited the transcendental style of Robert Bresson after decades of working in Hollywood.
