Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader
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.
Directed Movies
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Caroline Dhavernas, Jacob Elordi, Kristine Froseth, Megan Mackenzie, Michael Imperioli, Penelope Mitchell, Peter Hans Benson, Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Victoria Hill,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Amy Le, Eduardo Losan, Erika Ashley, Esai Morales, Jared Bankens, Joel Edgerton, Quintessa Swindell, Sigourney Weaver, Timothy McKinney, Victoria Hill,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Adrienne Lau, Alexander Babara, Bobby C. King, Bryan Truong, Dylan Flashner, Ekaterina Baker, Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, Willem Dafoe,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Bill Hoag, Cedric the Entertainer, Ethan Hawke, Ingrid Kullberg-Bendz, Ken Forman, Kristin Villanueva, Michael Gaston, Philip Ettinger, Victoria Hill,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Michael Gerbosi,
Cast: Christopher Neiman, Ed Begley Jr., Greg Kinnear, Kurt Fuller, Maria Bello, Michael E. Rodgers, Michael McKean, Rita Wilson, Ron Leibman, Willem Dafoe,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Dana Delany, David Clennon, David Spade, Jane Adams, Mary Beth Hurt, Paul Jabara, Sam Rockwell, Susan Sarandon, Victor Garber, Willem Dafoe,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Harold Pinter,
Cast: Christopher Walken, Daniel Franco, David Ford, Fabrizio Sergenti Castellani, Giancarlo Previati, Helen Mirren, Manfredi Aliquò, Natasha Richardson, Rossana Canghiari, Rupert Everett,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Chieko Schrader,
Cast: Go Riju, Hiroshi Mikami, Junkichi Orimoto, Junya Fukuda, Ken Ogata, Kyuzo Kobayashi, Masato Aizawa, Masayuki Shionoya, Shigeto Tachihara, Yuki Nagahara,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Alan Ormsby,
Cast: Annette O'Toole, Ed Begley Jr., Frankie Faison, John Heard, Lynn Lowry, Malcolm McDowell, Nastassja Kinski, Ron Diamond, Ruby Dee, Scott Paulin,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Bill Duke, Brian Davies, David Cryer, Héctor Elizondo, K Callan, Lauren Hutton, Nina van Pallandt, Patricia Carr, Richard Gere, Tom Stewart,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Dave Nichols, Dick Sargent, Gary Graham, George C. Scott, Larry Block, Leonard Gaines, Leslie Ackerman, Marc Alaimo, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Borah Silver, Cliff DeYoung, Ed Begley Jr., George Memmoli, Harry Bellaver, Harvey Keitel, Lane Smith, Lucy Saroyan, Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto,
Acted Movies
Director: Kent Jones
Writers: Kent Jones,
Cast: Arnaud Desplechin, Bob Balaban, David Fincher, James Gray, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Olivier Assayas, Paul Schrader, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson,
Written Movies
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Caroline Dhavernas, Jacob Elordi, Kristine Froseth, Megan Mackenzie, Michael Imperioli, Penelope Mitchell, Peter Hans Benson, Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Victoria Hill,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Amy Le, Eduardo Losan, Erika Ashley, Esai Morales, Jared Bankens, Joel Edgerton, Quintessa Swindell, Sigourney Weaver, Timothy McKinney, Victoria Hill,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Adrienne Lau, Alexander Babara, Bobby C. King, Bryan Truong, Dylan Flashner, Ekaterina Baker, Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, Willem Dafoe,
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Aida Turturro, Cliff Curtis, John Goodman, Marc Anthony, Mary Beth Hurt, Nestor Serrano, Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, Tom Sizemore, Ving Rhames,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Dana Delany, David Clennon, David Spade, Jane Adams, Mary Beth Hurt, Paul Jabara, Sam Rockwell, Susan Sarandon, Victor Garber, Willem Dafoe,
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Barbara Hershey, Barry Miller, Gary Basaraba, Harvey Keitel, Irvin Kershner, Paul Greco, Roberts Blossom, Steve Shill, Verna Bloom, Willem Dafoe,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Bill Duke, Brian Davies, David Cryer, Héctor Elizondo, K Callan, Lauren Hutton, Nina van Pallandt, Patricia Carr, Richard Gere, Tom Stewart,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Dave Nichols, Dick Sargent, Gary Graham, George C. Scott, Larry Block, Leonard Gaines, Leslie Ackerman, Marc Alaimo, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley,
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Borah Silver, Cliff DeYoung, Ed Begley Jr., George Memmoli, Harry Bellaver, Harvey Keitel, Lane Smith, Lucy Saroyan, Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto,
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Albert Brooks, Cybill Shepherd, Diahnne Abbott, Frank Adu, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, Robert De Niro, Victor Argo,
Director: Sydney Pollack
Writers: Paul Schrader,
Cast: Brian Keith, Christina Kokubo, Eiji Okada, Herb Edelman, James Shigeta, Keiko Kishi, Ken Takakura, Ky?suke Machida, Richard Jordan, Robert Mitchum,