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DeFazio has shot for numerous Hollywood directors such as Joe Dante (director of «Gremlins»), Paul Schrader (director of «American Gigolo» and screenwriter of «Taxi Driver» & «Raging Bull») and Roger Corman (producer of «Death Race», «Little Shop of Horrors»).

Meanwhile, PIERRE ALEXANDER DE LOOZ activates the secret Vogue history of CY TWOMBLY photographed by HORST P. HORST; publisher LORD GEORGE WEIDENFELD divulges the historical foundation of the global networking imperative in an interview with HANS ULRICH OBRIST; architect ARNO BRANDLHUBER asks how we can build architecture in the form of a discussion; artist MATTHEW BARNEY previews the Detroit chapter of his opera Ancient Evenings; designer RICK OWENS talks with CARSON CHAN about the discrete, the lurid, and the total aesthetic; director PAUL SCHRADER and king of disco GIORGIO MORODER crystallize 30 years of AMERICAN GIGOLO; artist ANDRO WEKUA stares us down with a 21st - century scenography;

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Made right after «American Gigolo,» director Paul Schrader was offered Alan Ormsby's script which reworked DeWitt Bodeen's classic horror tale (previously filmed in 1942 by legendary director Jacques Tourneur, for RKO Pictures).

FOUR NIGHTS OF A GIGOLO Paul Schrader's American Gigolo is attracting moviegoers with its picture of the call - boy as Bressonian victim.

American Gigolo is about Armani.

Coppola picked up the stylized color palettes for The Godfather movies, where the sepia became an idealized past contrasted with the chilly present of Michael's corruption, and brought Storaro over to shoot Apocalypse Now, while Paul Schrader reached out to production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti to be his «visual consultant» on American Gigolo and Cat People, films with defining, carefully painted color palettes.

INDUSTRY The ad campaign can make or break a movie, whether it's «10» or American Gigolo.

More dark stuff from Paul Schrader (Affliction, American Gigolo), who films this adaptation of Robert Graysmith's book, «The Murder of Bob Crane», with good cinematic flair.

IFC Films has released the first official trailer for director Paul Schrader's (American Gigolo) new film The Canyons.

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From writer - director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver; American Gigolo; Affliction) comes a gripping thriller about a crisis of faith that is at once personal, political, and planetary.

Like the screenplays he wrote for Martin Scorsese (notably Taxi Driver) and the tormented works he's made about the wages of sin (Hardcore, American Gigolo, The Comfort of Strangers, Auto Focus), Schrader — raised as a strict Calvinist — has never lost his obsession with the war between flesh and spirit.

It continues the director's career - long grappling with his Calvinist beliefs, even as it becomes the latest iteration of a story he has told before, in movies like «American Gigolo» and «Hardcore» and his screenplay for «Taxi Driver.»

Of course, Schrader has had a storied career as a director, too — his most remembered work is probably American Gigolo, but he's produced many challenging dramas that follow people at the intersection of some powerful, individual crisis.

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American Gigolo allows us hope, and sometimes that's all we can ask.

With American Gigolo, Schrader finally carves out a directorial style, at least in terms of his beloved camera movement.

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The writer or co-writer of films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull (both screenplays were nominated for Golden Globes) and the Last Temptation of Christ and director of American Gigolo, Cat People and Auto Focus, he had never seen a film before the age of seventeen, being more occupied by a strict Calvinist upbringing and college studies with a minor in theology.

Julie Delpy plays Irving's sometime mistress Nina Van Pallandt, who would (in a neat bit of Buddhist karma) later go on to appear opposite the young Richard Gere in American Gigolo.

Schrader — who is best known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese, but has also written and directed movies like American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, and Affliction — has never made anything as minimalist and contemplative as First Reformed, a film of empty spaces framed in boxy Academy ratio.

His achievements include writing the screenplay for TAXI DRIVER and directing AMERICAN GIGOLO.

GROSS: Three of your films - «Taxi Driver,» «Hardcore» and «American Gigolo» - are set in part in the sex trades.

The list of films Bruckheimer was involved with before beginning his relationship with Disney in the early»90s remains an impressive body of work, including «American Gigolo,» «Thief,» «Beverly Hills Cop,» «Flashdance» and «Top Gun.»

A new spin on American Gigolo?

I'll give an example from American Gigolo.

As the film's anti-hero, Ryan Gosling channels the ambiguous, amoral pretty - boy blankness of Ryan O'Neal in The Driver and Richard Gere in American Gigolo — in many ways, Gosling's character is himself a gigolo, but one who seduces cars rather than women.

And after Scarfiotti did American Gigolo, we did Cat People together.

Schrader calls this the third film in the «lonely man» trilogy that began with «American Gigolo» and continued in «Light Sleeper.»

That notion of Miami Vice comes right from American Gigolo — which comes straight from Scarfiotti.

The impact of Scarfiotti in American Gigolo went much further than the films he did.

When we did American Gigolo, we worked with the production designer of The Conformist: a man named Ferdinando Scarfiotti.

Some of his greatest cinematic hits have been the movies Pretty Woman, An Officer and a Gentleman, Breathless, American Gigolo and Chicago.

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He might be a gigolo in «American Gigolo» from 1980 or it might be Nick Nolte, the small - town policeman in «Affliction,» and now, in this case, a pastor in «First Reformed.»

Australian director Warwick Thornton makes an appearance with period western Sweet Country, starring Sam Neill, as does American Gigolo and Light Sleeper director Paul Schrader, with paranoid thriller First Reformed, which features Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried.

As photographed by John Bailey — at the time, the go - to cinematographer for Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Cat People, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, Light Of Day)-- the city's streets, restaurants, back rooms, and lofts are as much a character as Charlie and Paulie, a dreamer and a schemer trying to get ahead in a world where the chips are stacked against them.

If you've read «Transcendental Style In Film» by Paul Schrader (the writer director of American Gigolo then you can see what he was trying to communicate.

It would not surprise me a whit if some executives got together and said, «We need a high profile movie that will sell Armani suits to the public,» and thus American Gigolo was born.

Designer eyewear really hit its stride in the eighties, with movies such as American Gigolo and Tom Cruise's breakthrough Risky Business (1985) selling the attitude that built the decade: conspicuous consumption was nothing to be ashamed of.

Although it was Giorgio Armani who received the ultimate prize; with American Gigolo he created a narrative for fashion — his fashion.

By 1980, the one - time film critic and Pauline Kael protégé had already written the screenplay for two Martin Scorsese masterpieces, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, in addition to having directed three features of his own: Blue Collar, Hardcore, and American Gigolo.

First Reformed is both written and directed by veteran American filmmaker Paul Schrader, director of films including Blue Collar, Hardcore, American Gigolo, Cat People, Light of Day, The Comfort of Strangers, Light Sleeper, Forever Mine, Auto Focus, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, The Walker, Adam Resurrected, The Canyons, The Dying of the Light, and Dog Eat Dog previously.

Yet to argue the emptiness of the film and its bland protagonist as subtext is to miss the big picture: American Gigolo is not even about its protagonist; it is about what he wears.

And his additional film credits include «Love in the Time of Cholera,» «Music Within,» «Tortilla Soup,» «Necessary Roughness,» «American Gigolo» and the original version of «The Taking of Pelham One Two Three,» to name a few.

Schrader's third feature, 1980's American Gigolo, is one of his most interesting and memorable.

Paul Schrader, Collected Screenplays 1: Taxi Driver, American Gigolo, Light Sleeper, London: Faber and Faber, 2002.

Whether in the stasis image of Nick Nolte standing in the snow in Affliction, the self - conscious replications of the Bressonian decisive moment (from Pickpocket, 1959) in Light Sleeper (1992) and American Gigolo, or the final equilibrium of Frank's repose in Bringing Out the Dead, Schrader elicits the transcendent again and again.

«American Gigolo» — Paramount and Jerry Bruckheimer are teaming once again for a television adaptation of the Richard Gere crime movie.