Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #391001 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

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'.

Customer Reviews

Makes me want catch the first flight back to London.
The perfect read for anyone who has great affection for London and its "Tube". The author explores those enigmatic destinations at the ends of the lines - places with names which excite the imaginations of those who confine their use of the Underground to city center stations. As I read on with great pleasure, I could almost sense the acrid smell of the still resident soot from the extinct coal burning trains, and hear the cautionary "Mind the gap!" as the carriage doors hiss open. It made me so homesick - and I'm not even English born.