Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #229990 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-04
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Synopsis
Paul Schrader defied his Calvinist upbringing to become the writer of American classics like "Raging Bull" and "Taxi Driver". Fully updated, this is an essential set of dialogues with one of the most daring writer-directors in American film, and includes some of Schrader's best criticism.

From the Back Cover
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'.