Paul Schrader wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and directed First Reformed, Blue Collar and Mishima. His subject is consistently a man alone in a room writing in a journal, which he has acknowledged and continued anyway.
Paul SchraderSchrader's 2017 religious drama. Ethan Hawke as a Protestant minister losing his faith over climate despair.
Paul SchraderSchrader's 2021 gambling drama. Oscar Isaac as an Abu Ghraib veteran on the poker circuit.
Jacques TourneurCat People is one of the most influential psychological horror properties in American cinema history. The 1942 RKO production directed by Jacques Tourneur.
Paul SchraderPaul Schrader grew up in a strict Calvinist household in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It's a hard film to watch, not because of what it shows, which is less explicit than its reputation suggests, but because of what it understands about…
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