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Paul Schrader
FILMOGRAPHY (ONLY REVIEWED ENTRIES)
Paul Schrader started his career as a film critic, under the guidance and mentorship of Pauline Kael. When he tried his hand at writing scripts from the mid 1970s, he quickly became one of the most sought-after screenwriters in the business – and thus an important voice and figure in the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers. He wrote the story and script for Martin Scorsese now classic Taxi Driver and followed up with more interesting writing with Obsession (1976), directed by Brian de Palma, and Rolling Thunder (1977) before making his directorial debut himself with the critically acclaimed Blue Collar (1978). His magnum opus as a director is considered by many to be American Gigolo. Still, Schrader continued to score larger successes as a screenwriter for big productions like Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980), The Mosquito Coast (Weir, 1986), and The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese, 1988). In recent years, he has received some acclaim for his films Affliction (1997), which garnered James Coburn an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, The Canyons (2013) from a script by Bret Easton Ellis, and the hard-hitting First Reformed (2017) starring Ethan Hawke. A recurring motif in Schrader's films are young men who are living a life which in one way or another is in conflict with society's norms or their own convictions.
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