Transcendental Style In Film (A Da Capo paperback)
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The acclaimed director of Mishima, American Gigolo, Har...)
The acclaimed director of Mishima, American Gigolo, Hard Core, Blue Collar, Cat People also the screenwriter for Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader here analyzes the film style of three great directors—Yasajiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer—and posits a common dramatic language by these artists from divergent cultures. Unlike the style of psychological realism, which dominates film, the transcendental style expresses a spiritual state with austere camerawork, acting devoid of self-consciousness, and editing that avoids editorial comment. This important book is an original contribution to film analysis and a key work by one of our most searching directors and writers.
(Now fully updated, Schrader on Schrader is an essential s...)
Now fully updated, Schrader on Schrader is an essential set of dialogues with one of the most genuinely fascinating and uncompromising writer-directors in American film. Raised as a Calvinist and hence forbidden to partake of 'worldly pleasures' such as movies, Paul Schrader nevertheless defied his upbringing to become first a leading film critic, then a star pupil among the US 'movie brat' generation of the 1970s: writing the coruscating screenplays for Scorsese's Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and directing such provocative pictures as Blue Collar, Hardcore and American Gigolo. Maturity has never sated his appetite for attacking 'difficult' material, from adapting Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation for Scorsese, to filming the singular lives of Mishima and Patty Hearst. Schrader on Schrader is a tour through this formidable body of work, including some of Schrader's finest critical essays, and updating the story to include his recent successes Affliction and Auto Focus, plus his adventures in the making of the long-awaited horror 'prequel' Exorcist: The Beginning.
Paul Schrader: Collected Screenplays Volume 1: Taxi Driver, American Gigolo, Light Sleeper
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Since the seventies Paul Schrader has been hailed as on...)
Since the seventies Paul Schrader has been hailed as one of America's most gifted screenwriters. From his work with Martin Scorsese, such as The Last Temptation of Christ and Raging Bull, to the films of his own direction, such as Mishima and Affliction, Schrader has created a dark and affecting body of work that has had a profound effect on cinematic storytelling. The works in this volume represent some of his key moments as a writer and a director, including the script for what is perhaps his crowning achievement: Taxi Driver -- one of the most influential films of the seventies and an American classic.
(»Einer der besten Kriminalromane aller Zeiten« (Jury Deut...)
»Einer der besten Kriminalromane aller Zeiten« (Jury Deutscher Krimipreis), 1974 verfilmt mit Robert Mitchum in der Regie von Sydney Pollack. »Leonard Schrader bietet in seinem Roman eine Innensicht der Yakuza-Mythen: Er zeigt die äußeren Zwänge wie die moralische Größe, die dem rituellen Verhalten entspringt, und läßt so sein Action-Abenteuer zugleich zu einem Abenteuer werden, das von unseren Auffassungen von der Welt und vom Leben allgemein handelt. Was Schraders Roman auch so fesselnd und so berührend macht, ist die Art und Weise, wie der Amerikaner Harry Kilmer charakterisiert ist.« Norbert Grob Der ehemalige amerikanische Privatdetektiv Harry Kilmer kennt die Spielregeln der Unterwelt Japans und die Gangster, die Glücksspiel, Prostitution und Schutzgelder mit eiserner Hand kontrollieren. Als die Yakuza die Tochter seines alten Kollegen und Freundes George Tanner entführen, reist Kilmer in dessen Auftrag nach Tokio, um das Mädchen aus der Geiselhaft zu befreien. Kilmer wendet sich an den ehemaligen Yakuza Mann Tanaka Ken, der in seiner Schuld steht. Sie geraten in eine blutige Auseinandersetzung mit dem mächtigen Yakuza-Clan und sorgen mit Gewehr und Schwert dafür, daß sich die Reihen der japanischen Mafia dramatisch lichten. Der schwärzeste und bisher wohl beste Japan-Thriller, der dem Leser eine fremde Kultur näher bringt. Eine fesselnde Geschichte über Schuld, Ehre und den erbitterten Kampf gegen mächtige Mafia-Bosse. Die Yakuza sind Japans organisierte Gangster, die seit einigen hundert Jahren Mafia-Aktivitäten betreiben. Sie halten bis zum heutigen Tag an Kodizes fest und folgen einer strengen Hierarchie.
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A loner, Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in searc...)
A loner, Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds around him. His pent-up rage, fuelled by his doomed relationship with the political campaign worker Betsy, leads to an inevitable descent into psychosis and violence.
This volume also contains an extended interview between Schrader and Martin Scorsese in which they discuss their unique relationship-one which stretches from Taxi Driver through Raging Bull to The Last Temptation of Christ.
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In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and bri...)
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.
(Contemporary / American English Allie Fox hates the Unite...)
Contemporary / American English Allie Fox hates the United States and he hates the twentieth century. He takes his wife and children to the jungle in Honduras to find a new, simpler way of living. But things go wrong, and their lives become much worse and more frightening than anything back home.
LA Costa De Los Mosquitos/Mosquito Coast (Spanish Edition)
(Un personaje extraordinario, Allie Fox, genio autodidacta...)
Un personaje extraordinario, Allie Fox, genio autodidacta, inventor visionario y fanático adversario del american way of life, mantiene despóticamente a su familia bajo la fascinación de sus extravagantes ideas e iniciativasUn personaje extraordinario, Allie Fox, genio autodidacta, inventor visionario y fanático adversario
Paul Schrader: Collected Screenplays Volume 1: Taxi Driver, American Gigolo, Light Sleeper
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Since the seventies Paul Schrader has been hailed as on...)
Since the seventies Paul Schrader has been hailed as one of America's most gifted screenwriters. From his work with Martin Scorsese, such as The Last Temptation of Christ and Raging Bull, to the films of his own direction, such as Mishima and Affliction, Schrader has created a dark and affecting body of work that has had a profound effect on cinematic storytelling. The works in this volume represent some of his key moments as a writer and a director, including the script for what is perhaps his crowning achievement: Taxi Driver -- one of the most influential films of the seventies and an American classic.
Paul Schrader: Collected Screenplays Volume 1: Taxi Driver, American Gigolo, Light Sleeper
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Since the seventies Paul Schrader has been hailed as on...)
Since the seventies Paul Schrader has been hailed as one of America's most gifted screenwriters. From his work with Martin Scorsese, such as The Last Temptation of Christ and Raging Bull, to the films of his own direction, such as Mishima and Affliction, Schrader has created a dark and affecting body of work that has had a profound effect on cinematic storytelling. The works in this volume represent some of his key moments as a writer and a director, including the script for what is perhaps his crowning achievement: Taxi Driver -- one of the most influential films of the seventies and an American classic.
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (Outspoken Authors)
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Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders is darkly satiric take on two of the most famous cases of our era: the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst and the shocking assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and gay leader Harvey Milk. As a reporter for the Berkeley Barb, Paul Krassner was ringside at the spectacular California trials, and his hilarious deadpan style captures the nightmare reality behind the absurdities of the courtroom circus. Using his infamous satiric pen and investigative chops, Krassner gets to the truth behind the events: the role of the police and FBI, the real deal with Patty and the SLA, and what really happened in Patty’s infamous closet. Also included is a merciless exposé of the “Taliban” wing of the Gay Movement and their scandalous attacks on alt-rock star Michelle Shocked. The Outspoken Interview features an irreverent and fascinating romp through the secret history of America’s radical underground—names will be named.
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A loner, Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in searc...)
A loner, Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds around him. His pent-up rage, fuelled by his doomed relationship with the political campaign worker Betsy, leads to an inevitable descent into psychosis and violence.
This volume also contains an extended interview between Schrader and Martin Scorsese in which they discuss their unique relationship-one which stretches from Taxi Driver through Raging Bull to The Last Temptation of Christ.
The Taxi-Dance Hall: A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City Life (University of Chicago Sociological Series)
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First published in 1932, The Taxi-Dance Hall is Paul Goalby Cressey’s fascinating study of Chicago’s urban nightlife—as seen through the eyes of the patrons, owners, and dancers-for-hire who frequented the city’s notoriously seedy “taxi-dance” halls.
Taxi-dance halls, as the introduction notes, were social centers where men could come and pay to dance with “a bevy of pretty, vivacious, and often mercenary” women. Ten cents per dance was the usual fee, with half the proceeds going to the dancer and the other half to the owner of the taxi-hall. Cressey’s study includes detailed maps of the taxi-dance districts, illuminating interviews with dancers, patrons, and owners, and vivid analyses of local attempts to reform the taxi-dance hall and its attendees.
Cressey’s study reveals these halls to be the distinctive urban consequence of tensions between a young, diverse, and economically independent population at odds with the restrictive regulations of Prohibition America. Thick with sexual vice, ethnic clashes, and powerful undercurrents of class, The Taxi-Dance Hall is a landmark example of Chicago sociology, perfect for scholars and history buffs alike.
Immigrants and Local Governance: The View from City Hall
(More than one-quarter of California residents are foreign...)
More than one-quarter of California residents are foreign-born. Yet, very little is known about the effects of immigration on public policymaking and representation at the local level. In this report, the authors address three major questions. First, how do municipal officials become aware of the needs and preferences of immigrant populations? Second, how do they attempt to communicate city policies to their immigrant constituents, many of whom do not speak English? Third, how -- if at all -- does the presence of immigrants alter the policies and routines of city government?
Scars: Essays, Poems and Meditations on Affliction
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Paul Murray is not only an academic, a preacher and pub...)
Paul Murray is not only an academic, a preacher and published poet, he is also a superb pastor. During his ministry, he has dealt with some extraordinary people - not least a South African who was convicted of murder and hanged under Apartheid. Drawing on this remarkable experience, the reader is offered here a sustained meditation on the meaning of affliction and suffering in a way that is ultimately the story of human triumph and the ultimate victory of the Cross. The book concludes with Paul Murray's extraordinary meditations on the Seven Last Words from the Cross in which the wealth of his pastoral experience is fully brought to bear.
Scars is the account of men and women of all ages who have survived major crises or tragedies of one kind or another: the scourge of drug addiction, the misery of long-term imprisonment, severe illness, the burden of remembered violence, and the tragedy of child abuse. The most striking thing about such people is that, whether or not they are aware of the reality of God in their lives, they are people of extraordinary compassion. They seem to have been initiated into a new dimension of themselves and to have discovered a new wealth within. As Murray says in his introduction 'the voices which I have begun to hear are voices to which I myself am still learning to listen'. These are not just accounts of triumphs and of tragedy - they are powerful meditations on something much more profound.
(One of the key films of the seventies. The script and an ...)
One of the key films of the seventies. The script and an extended interview between Paul Schrader and Martin Scorcese in which they discuss their unique relationship.
Level 4: The Mosquito Coast Book and MP3 Pack (Pearson English Graded Readers)
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Adjustment To College A Study Of 10 000 Veteran And Nonveteran Students In Sixteen American Colleges by Frederiksen Norman Schrader W B. (2011-08-18) Paperback
Am See, Oder: Die Speculanten: Ein Lebensbild Aus Der Gegenwart Von August Schrader, Volume 2 (German Edition)
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August Schrader
Hermann Luppe, 1859
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981, as dated by Houghton Mifflin on the title page; 1982, as dated by Cape Cod Scriveners on the copyright page. Signed by Theroux. ARC (Advance Review Copy) for the First U.S. Edition, accompanied by an inscribed business card from Houghton Mifflin Manager of Advertising and Publiciity, Carolyn Amussen to the unnamed recipient of the ARC, laid in. See scans. Signed by Theroux, without inscription, on the title page. One of approximately just 350 ARC copies issued. Octavo, perfect-bound wraps illustrated as per the then-upcoming jacket design by Paul Bacon Studio, Inc. for the impending first edition; just a small handful of the woodcut illustrations by David Frampton are ion the ARC; orange cloth and blue-gray paper boards with black spine imprinting; 374 pp. A much-better-than Very Good example, with a very faint cover crease and a coule of smudges. See scans. Theroux's 1981 tale of a middle-aged professor's estrangement-escape from modern society by way of a "muddled, metaphysical journey into the jungle" won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, was named the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year, and was the basis of the (now) critically well-regarded Peter Weir - Harrison Ford film of the same name in 1996. A very collectible form of the title, and, with the presentation ephemera (which reads: ""You'll be surprised by this Theroux - a departure - and (underlined) Very powerful, How are you ?"), without doubt the scarcest form. Please see scans. L54n
Servants of Satan: The Age of the Witch Hunts (Midland Book, Mb 422)
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This is the first book to consider the general course a...)
This is the first book to consider the general course and significance of the European witch craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries since H.R. Trevor-Roper's classic and pioneering study appeared some fifteen years ago. Drawing upon the advances in historical and social-science scholarship of the past decade and a half, Joseph Klaits integrates the recent appreciations of witchcraft in regional studies, the history of popular culture, anthropology, sociology, and psychology to better illuminate the place of witch hunting in the context of social, political, economic and religious change.
"In all, Klaits has done a good job. Avoiding the scandalous and sensational, he has maintained throughout, with sensitivity and economy, an awareness of the uniqueness of the theories and persecutions that have fascinated scholars now for two decades and are unlikely to lose their appeal in the foreseeable future." ―American Historical Review
"This is a commendable synthesis whose time has come.... fascinating... " ―The Sixteenth Century Journal
"... comprehensive and clearly written... An excellent book... " ―Choice
"Impeccable research and interpretation stand behind this scholarly but not stultifying account... " ―Booklist
"A good, solid, general treatment... " ―Erik Midelfort
"Servants of Satan is a well written, easy to read book, and the bibliography is a good source of secondary materials for further reading." ―Journal of American Folklore
Beyond a Whistle and a Prayer: Transforming Lives, Pursuing Excellence, Honoring Jesus through Coaching by Schrader, Phd., Christopher M. (2015) Paperback
Borse Und Leben: Original-Roman in Vier Banden Von August Schrader, Volume 2... (German Edition)
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August Schrader
Franz Leo, 1861
Brse Und Leben: Original-roman In Vier Bnden Von August Schrader, Volume 1 (German Edition)
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August Schrader
Franz Leo, 1861
Börse Und Leben: Original-roman In Vier Bänden Von August Schrader, Volume 3 (German Edition)
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Franz Leo, 1861
Penguin Readers Pack of 6 Books, Reading Levels 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6: The Fall of the House of Usher & Other Stories; World Folktales; The Mosquito Coast; Les Miserables; Cinderella Man; Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Joshua and the City (G.K. Hall Large Print Inspirational Collection)
(A contemporary city faces turmoil and devastation until i...)
A contemporary city faces turmoil and devastation until it is visited by the serene figure of Joshua, who presents an alternative, love-based approach to life while addressing such issues as poverty, racism, and AIDS.
Constructing Worlds Together: Interpersonal Communication as Relational Process by Gergen Kenneth J. Schrader Stuart M. Gergen Mary (2008-10-06) Paperback
The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament / by Eberhard Schrader ; Translated from the Second Enlarged German Edition with an Introductory Preface by Owen C. Whitehouse - [Complete in 2 Volumes]
(EBERHARD SCHRADER (1836-1908), German Orientalist. Took a...)
EBERHARD SCHRADER (1836-1908), German Orientalist. Took a university prize in 1858 for a treatise on the Ethiopian languages; in 1863 became professor of theology at Zurich; eventually became professor of oriental languages at Berlin. Though he turned first to biblical research, his chief achievements were in the field of Assyriology, in which he was a pioneer in Germany and acquired an international reputation. On Dr Schrader's work "The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament" one contemporary reviewer said: "Dr. Schrader's name is too widely and favourably known in connection with Assyriology and with Old Testament criticism for any work coming from his pen to require commendation in order to obtain attention. ... This work, ... its value to highly appraised, ... eagerly sought after by all who wish to know to what extent ... discoveries in Babylonia and Assryia have shed light on the books of the Old Testament and the History of Israel. ... No one, however, has done for us what Professor Schrader has done ... in the work before us. Dr. Schrader takes up the Old Testament, and, beginning with the first page of the book of Genesis, goes through it book by book, and whether it be a word or geographical name, the name of a tribe or people, a narrative, a historical event, or whatever it may be, on which the Assyrian language or the Assyrian inscriptions throw any light, he brings that light to bear on it, and shows us how it appears in it." Another contemporary reviewer echoed that appraisal and said: "Nothing of the same character and extent has hitherto appeared in English. ... To the Hebrew and Old Testament scholar it is a great gain to have the records themselves transcribed, so that he may be enabled to judge for himself respecting the conclusions which are based on them. Moreover, he thereby acquires some linguistic knowledge of the original Assyrian, and is placed in possession of facts of considerable philological importance."
Das Staatsgefangniss: Roman Aus Der Neuesten Geschichte. Von August Schrader, Volume 2... (German Edition)
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August Schrader
Christian Ernst Kollmann, 1849
Das Staatsgefängniss: Roman Aus Der Neuesten Geschichte. Von August Schrader, Volume 3... (German Edition)
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Christian Ernst Kollmann, 1849
Die Braut Des Armen: Sozialer Roman Aus Der Gegenwart Von August Schrader, Volume 3 (German Edition)
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August Schrader
Heinrich Spitzer, 1864
Ideal Commonwealths: Plutarch'S Lycurgus, More'S Utopia, Bacon'S New Atlantis, Campanella'S City of the Sun and a Fragment of Hall'S Mundus Alter Et Idem
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Paul Joseph Schrader is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. Schrader wrote or co-wrote screenplays for four Martin Scorsese films: Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Bringing Out the Dead (1999).
Background
Schrader was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Joan (née Fisher) and Charles A. Schrader, an executive. Schrader's family attended the Calvinist Christian Reformed Church. His early life was based upon the religion's strict principles and parental education. He did not see a film until, when he was seventeen years old, he was able to sneak away from home. In an interview he stated that The Absent-Minded Professor was the first film he saw. In his own words, he was "very unimpressed" by it, while Wild in the Country, which he saw some time later, had quite some effect on him. Schrader attributes his intellectual rather than emotional approach towards movies and movie-making to his having no adolescent movie memories. Schrader is of Dutch descent.
Education
Schrader earned his B.A. from Calvin College, with a minor in theology. He then earned an M.A. in Film Studies at the UCLA Film School upon the recommendation of Pauline Kael. With Kael as his mentor, he became a film critic, writing for the Los Angeles Free Press and later for Cinema magazine. His book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer, which examines the similarities between Robert Bresson, Yasujirō Ozu, and Carl Theodor Dreyer, was published in 1972. The endings of his films American Gigolo and Light Sleeper bear obvious resemblance to that of Bresson's 1959 film Pickpocket. His essay Notes on Film Noir from the same year has become a much-cited source in literature on film.
The September–October 2006 issue of Film Comment magazine published his essay Canon Fodder, which attempted to establish criteria for judging film masterworks.
Other film-makers who made a lasting impression on Schrader are John Ford, Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini, Alfred Hitchcock, and Sam Peckinpah. Renoir's The Rules of the Game he called the "quintessential movie" which represents "all of the cinema".
Career
In 1974 Schrader and his brother Leonard co-wrote The Yakuza, a film set in the Japanese crime world. The script became the subject of a bidding war, eventually selling for $325,000. The film was directed by Sydney Pollack and starred Robert Mitchum. Robert Towne, best known for Chinatown, also received a credit for his rewrite.
Although The Yakuza failed commercially, it brought Schrader to the attention of the new generation of Hollywood directors. In 1975 he wrote the script for Obsession for Brian De Palma. Schrader wrote an early draft of Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), but Spielberg disliked the script, calling it "terribly guilt-ridden," and opted for something lighter. He also wrote an early draft of Rolling Thunder (1977), which the film's producers had reworked without his participation. He disapproved of the final film.
Schrader's script about an obsessed New York City taxi driver became Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Besides Taxi Driver (1976) Scorsese also drew on scripts by Schrader for the boxing tale Raging Bull (1980), co-written with Mardik Martin, The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Bringing Out the Dead (1999).
Thanks partly to critical acclaim for Taxi Driver, Schrader was able to direct his first feature, Blue Collar (1978), co-written with his brother Leonard. Blue Collar features Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto as car factory workers attempting to escape their socio-economic rut through theft and blackmail. He has described the film as difficult to make, because of the artistic and personal tensions between him and the cast. During principal photography he suffered an on-set mental collapse which led him to seriously reconsider his career. John Milius acted as executive producer on the following year's Hardcore, again written by Schrader, a film with many autobiographical parallels in his depiction of the Calvinist milieu of Grand Rapids, and in the character of George C. Scott, which was based on Schrader's father.
Among Paul Schrader's films in the 1980s were American Gigolo starring Richard Gere (1980), his 1982 remake of Cat People, and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985). Inspired by Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, the film interweaves episodes from Mishima's life with dramatizations of segments from his books. Mishima was nominated for the top prize (the Palme d'Or) at the Cannes Film Festival. Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas served as executive producers.
Schrader also directed Patty Hearst (1988), about the kidnapping and transformation of the Hearst Corporation heiress. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.
His 1990s work included the travelers-in-Venice tale The Comfort of Strangers (1990), adapted by Harold Pinter from the Ian McEwan novel, and Light Sleeper (1992), a sympathetic study of a drug dealer vying for a normal life. In 2005 Schrader described Light Sleeper as his "most personal" film. In 1997 he made Touch (1997), based on an Elmore Leonard novel about a young man seemingly able to cure the sick by the laying on of hands.
In 1998, Schrader won critical acclaim for the drama Affliction. The film tells the story of a troubled small town policeman (Nick Nolte) who becomes obsessed with solving the mystery behind a fatal hunting accident. Schrader's script was based on the novel by Russell Banks. The film was nominated for multiple awards including two Academy Awards for acting (for Nolte and James Coburn). The same year, Schrader received the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter Award.
In 1999, Schrader received the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America.
In 2002, he directed the acclaimed biopic Auto Focus, based on the life and murder of Hogan's Heroes actor Bob Crane.
In 2003, Schrader made entertainment headlines after being fired from The Exorcist: Dominion, a prequel film to the horror classic The Exorcist from 1973. The film's production companies Morgan Creek Productions and Warner Bros. Pictures greatly disliked the film Schrader had made. Director Renny Harlin was hired to then re-shoot nearly the entire film, which was released as Exorcist: The Beginning on August 20, 2004 to disastrously negative reviews and embarrassing box office receipts. Warner Bros. and Morgan Creek put over $80 million into the endeavor and Harlin's film only made back $41 million domestically. Schrader's version of the film eventually premiered at the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film on March 18, 2005 as Exorcist: The Original Prequel. Due to extreme interest in Schrader's version from critics and cinephiles alike, Warner Bros. agreed to give the film a limited theatrical release later that year under the title Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist. The film was only shown on 110 screens around the United States and made just $251 thousand. The critics liked Schrader's version much better than Harlin's. However, Schrader's film ultimately met with a generally negative reaction.
After that, Schrader filmed The Walker (2007), starring Woody Harrelson as a male escort caught up in a political murder enquiry, and the Israeli-set Adam Resurrected (2008), which stars Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe.
After five years of trying and failing to find funding to make feature films, Schrader returned with The Canyons (2013) an erotic dramatic thriller written by Bret Easton Ellis and starring Lindsay Lohan and adult-film star James Deen. The film gained a massive amount of publicity since it was one of the very first films to use the website Kickstarter to crowd-source its funding, completely sidestepping the traditional Hollywood system. Schrader also used the website Let It Cast to have unknown actors submit their audition tapes over the internet. American Apparel stepped in to provide some wardrobe for the film. The idea behind making The Canyons was to embrace a Post-Empire sensibility, using the digital filmmaking revolution and popularity of social media and networking to finance, produce, promote and distribute the film. The filming was fraught with massive media coverage due to Lohan's notorious on-set behavior, in tandem with the films highly unusual production route. The film was ultimately made for just $250 thousand and had a limited theatrical release from IFC Films on August 2, 2013. The film was poorly received by general critics and audiences but gained much attention from film theorists and cinephiles who acknowledged the film's daring and groundbreaking production, heralding a new wave of American Independent Cinema. Lohan, despite the controversy that was reported on set, got rave reviews for her performance. The film only made $56 thousand in theaters but was a huge success when released on various Video on Demand platforms, like iTunes.
As of April, 2014, Schrader is in post-production on The Dying of the Light, an espionage thriller starring Nicolas Cage as a government agent suffering from a deadly disease, Anton Yelchin and Irène Jacob.
Schrader headed the International Jury of the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival, and in 2011 became a jury member for the ongoing Filmaka short film contest.
On July 2, 2009, Schrader was awarded the inaugural Lifetime Achievement in Screenwriting award at the ScreenLit Festival in Nottingham, England. Several of his films were shown at the festival, including Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, which followed the presentation of the award by director Shane Meadows.
Schrader's second marriage is to actress Mary Beth Hurt, who has appeared in smaller roles in a variety of his films.
A recurring theme in Schrader's films is the protagonist on a self-destructive path, or undertaking actions which work against himself, deliberately or subconsciously. The finale often bears an element of redemption, preceded by a painful sacrifice or cathartic act of violence.
Schrader has repeatedly referred to Taxi Driver, American Gigolo, Light Sleeper, The Canyons and The Walker as "a man in a room" stories. The protagonist in each film changes from an angry, then narcissistic, later anxious character, to a person who hides behind a mask of superficiality.
Although many of his films or scripts are based on real-life biographies (Raging Bull, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Patty Hearst, Auto Focus), Schrader confessed having problems with biographical films due to their altering of actual events, which he tried to prevent by imposing structures and stylization instead.
Connections
Married Jeannine Oppewall (divorced). Married Mary Beth Hurt, August 6, 1983.