Paul Schrader
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Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a screenwriter and film director, renowned for his characters that fall into desperation while their world crumbles around them.
His influences include Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu and Carl Dreyer, whose cross-cultural similarities he examined in Transcendental Style in Film: Bresson, Ozu, Dreyer (ISBN 0-306-80335-6) in 1972. Despite his credentials as a director, Schrader has received more recognition for his screenplays directed by others.
Schrader is married to the actress Mary Beth Hurt, and they have two children, a daughter named Molly and a son named Sam. He was trained at the AFI Conservatory.
Filmography (as director)
- Blue Collar (1978) (also co-writer)
- Hardcore (1979) (also writer)
- American Gigolo (1980) (also writer)
- Cat People (1982)
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) (also co-writer with his brother and sister-in-law)
- Light of Day (1987) (also writer)
- Patty Hearst (1988)
- The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
- Light Sleeper (1992) (also writer)
- Witch Hunt (1994) (TV)
- Touch (1997) (also writer)
- Affliction (1997) (also writer)
- Forever Mine (1999) (also writer)
- Auto Focus (2002)
- Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
- The Walker (2007) (also writer)
- Adam Resurrected (2008)
Filmography (as writer only)
- The Yakuza (1975)...Directed by Sydney Pollack (with Leonard Schrader)
- Taxi Driver (1976)...Directed by Martin Scorsese
- Obsession (1976)...Directed by Brian DePalma
- Rolling Thunder (1977)...Directed by John Flynn
- Old Boyfriends (1979)...Directed by Joan Tewkesbury (with Leonard Schrader)
- Raging Bull (1980)...Directed by Martin Scorsese (with Mardik Martin)
- The Mosquito Coast (1986)...Directed by Peter Weir
- The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)...Directed by Martin Scorsese
- City Hall (1996)...Directed by Harold Becker (with Bo Goldman, Nicholas Pileggi, and Ken Lipper)
- Bringing Out the Dead (1999)...Directed by Martin Scorsese
- Torch (2007)...to be directed by Harold Becker
Further reading
- Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (1972) (ISBN 0-306-80335-6)
- Schrader on Schrader and Other Writings (2004) (ISBN 0-571-22176-9)
