Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader

If you know more information about Paul Schrader help us to improve this page
Birthday: 
22 July 1946, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Birth Name: 
Paul Joseph Schrader
Height: 
173 cm
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. Although... Show more »
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. Although he more than made up for lost time when studying at Calvin College, Columbia University and UCLA's graduate film program, his influences were far removed from those of his contemporaries--Robert Bresson, Yasujirô Ozu and Carl Theodor Dreyer (about whom he wrote a book, "Transcendental Style in Film") rather than Saturday-morning serials. After a period as a film critic (and protégé of Pauline Kael), he began writing screenplays, hitting the jackpot when he and his brother, Leonard Schrader (a Japanese expert), were paid the then-record sum of $325,000, thus establishing his reputation as one of Hollywood's top screenwriters, which was consolidated when Martin Scorsese filmed Schrader's script Taxi Driver (1976), written in the early 1970s during a bout of drinking and depression. The success of the film allowed Schrader to start directing his own films, which have been notable for their willingness to take stylistic and thematic risks while still working squarely within the Hollywood system. The most original of his films (which he and many others regard as his best) was the Japanese co-production Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985). Show less «

Paul Schrader's FILMOGRAPHY

American Masters - Season 37

EPS9

Late Night with Seth Meyers - Season 11

EPS88

The Last Movie Stars - Season 1

EPS6

Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982

HD

Late Night with Seth Meyers - Season 10

EPS39

Master Gardener

HD

Paul Schrader: Man in a Room

HD

Late Night with Seth Meyers - Season 8

EPS4

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

HD

The Oscars (2019)

EPS2

We Blew It

HD

Dog Eat Dog

HD

Hitchcock/Truffaut

HD

Dying Of The Light

HD

Milius

HD

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

HD

The Canyons

HD

The Story of Film: An Odyssey - Season 1

EPS15

These Amazing Shadows

HD

Eames: The Architect & The Painter

HD

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

HD

Dominion: Prequel To The Exorcist

HD

Bringing Out the Dead

HD

NEXT PAGE

Example Example Example
HD
Country:
Genre: