Sentences with phrase «gigolo screenplay»
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Schrader wrote or co-wrote screenplays for Martin Scorsese's «Taxi Driver,» «Raging Bull,» and «The Last Temptation of Christ» and has directed 18 feature films, including «American Gigolo,» «Affliction,» «Auto Focus,» and «The Canyons.»
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DEUCE BIGALOW: EUROPEAN GIGOLO * / **** starring Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin, Til Schweiger, Jeroen Krabbé screenplay by Rob Schneider and David Garrett & Jason Ward directed by Mike Bigelow MURDERBALL ** 1/2 / **** directed by Henry Alex Rubin & Dana Adam Shapiro THE ARISTOCATS ** / **** directed by Paul Provenza & Penn Jillette
Paul Schrader, Collected Screenplays 1: Taxi Driver, American Gigolo, Light Sleeper, London: Faber and Faber, 2002.
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.
His achievements include writing the screenplay for TAXI DRIVER and directing 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.
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.
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.»
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.