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	Schrader on Schrader and Other Writings by Paul Schrader Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £4.99 Excellent updated version of brilliant book in Faber-series, covering most of Schrader's career...
	Transcendental Style in Film - Ozu, Bresson and Dreyer by Paul Schrader Buy used from: £5.00 Schrader's first book from his pre-screenwriting days; his 'Notes on Film Noir' are a key cinema text also...
	The Yakuza [1975] [VHS] Buy used from: £1.19 Written with brother Leonard, who also co-wrote 'Mishima' & 'Blue Collar' - as well as writing 'Kiss of the Spider Woman'. This needs to be on dvd....
	Taxi Driver [DVD] [1976] Buy new: £4.58 / Used from: £1.00 Schrader's brilliant screenplay nodded to Bresson & 'Nausea'....
	Obsession [DVD] [1976] Buy used from: £39.99 Exploitative b-movie with Brian De Palma twisting around the timeless 'Vertigo'....
	Collected Screenplays: "Taxi Driver", "American Gigolo", "Light Sleeper" v. 1 by Paul Schrader Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £6.39 Here are several great screenplays together, forming a single-type of character Schrader is obssessed with....
	Blue Collar [VHS] [1978] Buy used from: £3.47 Excellent film with Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel & Yaphet Kotto. This needs a DVD reissue also....
	Raging Bull - 20th Anniversary Edition - 2 Disc Set [DVD] [1981] Buy used from: £0.90 Schrader's hardcore script was later rewritten (uncredited) by Robert De Niro & Martin Scorsese. A masterpiece regardless...Schrader was also working on a Hank Williams biopic too....
	Hardcore [DVD] [1979] Buy new: £5.57 / Used from: £2.59 Not a complete success, but not uninteresting; 8MM was a lightweight rip-off of it....
	American Gigolo [1980] [DVD] Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £0.49 Nods to European cinema, in particular 'The Conformist'; its look would inspire such films as 'Flashdance', 'Top Gun' & 'The Hunger'....
	Cat People [DVD] [1982] Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £2.80 Remake of the 40s classic with great-surface look, a Moroder soundtrack and Nastassia Kinski....
	Light Of Day [VHS] [1988] Buy used from: £2.75 Originally called 'Born in the USA', it would inspire the title of the famous Springsteen record. Springsteen recorded 'Light of Day' for it later....
	Patty Hearst [DVD] [1988] Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £2.50 Not penned by Schrader and a bit of a failure....
	The Last Temptation of Christ [DVD] Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £2.40 Controversial Scorsese feature adapted from a great fictional work....
	The Comfort Of Strangers [DVD] [1990] Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £3.99 Not bad, not great adaptation of Ian McEwan's creepy novel....
	Light Sleeper [DVD] [1991] Buy used from: £8.99 A neglected masterpiece and one of Schrader's strongest works....
	Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters [1985] [VHS] Buy used from: £14.00 Almost forgot this & it's my fave film of his! This really needs a decent DVD reissue. One of my all time favourite films....
	Touch [DVD] [1998] Buy new: £4.57 / Used from: £3.43 Fine adaptation of a quirky novel by Elmore Leonard....
	Forever Mine [DVD] [1999] Buy used from: £10.00 I've never seen this....
	Affliction [DVD] [1998] Buy used from: £2.99 Excellent adaptation of a brilliant novel by Russel Banks. Sat on by studio- though it won an Oscar!
	Auto Focus [DVD] [2003] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.30 Certainly not bad, but sadly not written by Schrader....
	Exorcist - The Beginning [DVD] [2004] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.01 There is going to be the Schrader-version of this released; a movie later remade by a gutless studio by the man who made 'Deep Blue Sea'!!!!!
	Bringing Out The Dead [DVD] [2000] Buy used from: £0.88 Not that great, but visually arresting and fairly engaging movie - Robert Richardson's cinematography is the star though....
	City Hall [DVD] [1996] Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £1.06 Schrader wrote a screenplay for this, as well as Rolling Thunder, Taxi Driver, The Yakuza....
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind--Collector's Edition (two discs) [DVD] [1978] Buy new: £4.58 / Used from: £1.64 He wrote a screenplay of this famously rejected by Spielberg, as well as The Mosquito Coast, The Last Temptation of Christ, Obssession etc...