Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote the screenplay for Taxi Driver (1976) and directed films including Blue Collar (1978), American Gigolo (1980), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Light Sleeper (1992) and First Reformed (2017).

Schrader is known for collaborations with Martin Scorsese (as screenwriter on Taxi Driver and other films), for his recurring themes of alienation, guilt and spiritual crisis, and for the book "Transcendental Style in Film."

The collected reviews on DeBaser praise Paul Schrader's sustained interest in alienation, beauty, and moral extremity across films like American Gigolo, Mishima and Light Sleeper. Critics highlight his visual style, recurring themes of loneliness and redemption, and his status as both a screenwriter and director. Several reviews reassess underrated late works and controversial projects.

For:Readers interested in auteur cinema, students of film studies, and viewers drawn to psychological drama and moral complexity.

 American Gigolo, although seen today is so tied, indeed, to an aesthetic deeply rooted in the atmosphere of a specific historical period, even now, almost forty years later, has lost none of its superb charm and stylistic elegance.

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 It’s the beauty that hurts you most.

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 Less violent than Taxi Driver (1976), less sophisticated than American Gigolo (1980), Light Sleeper (1992) by Paul Schrader ideally completes a trilogy on metropolitan male neurosis.

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 With $150,000 raised through crowdfunding, bringing to the stage the death of cinema, in the form of a noir written by former prodigy Bret Easton Ellis; starring the most controversial gossip actress and the most famous American porn star in circulation; taking the film to Venice and being (almost) unanimously panned. Unjustly.

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