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His achievements include writing the screenplay for TAXI DRIVER and directing AMERICAN GIGOLO.
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The screenplay is written by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant, the screenwriting duo responsible for one of the worst movies of last year, Taxi.
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.»
Variety has reported that Paul Schrader - best known for writing the screenplays for such films as TAXI DRIVER and RAGING BULL - has...
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.
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.
His FIRST REFORMED screenplay is right up there with his landmark scripts for TAXI DRIVER and RAGING BULL.
The film has been compared to Taxi Driver (for which Schrader wrote the screenplay) in terms of following a character's descent into madness in an insane world, but First Reformed feels like the premise has been updated and refined for the 21st century.
He did this, iconically, with his original screenplay for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and as a director himself in 2002's Auto Focus, an unsettling descent into porn and career dislocation.