Paul Joseph Schrader was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Despite his often-demonstrated "confessional" style of writing, Schrader's childhood remains largely a mystery. What emerges from his sketchy c...
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Critical Essay by Vincent Canby
Having now seen "American Gigolo," "Hardcore" and "Taxi Driver,"… I can't tell whether Mr. Schrader seizes on t...
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Critical Essay by Pauline Kael
There's no American director who gives his movies a tonier buildup than Paul Schrader does. His interviews about his new "Cat People" … migh...
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Critical Essay by Richard Combs
Without the compulsive plot mechanism that usually draws [Schrader's] characters ineluctably towards their destiny …, Cat People tends to disintegrate in...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
Paul Schrader, who wrote the dubious script of Taxi Driver and the undubiously awful script of The Yakuza, wrote [Blue Collar with his brother Leonard]…. Th...
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Critical Essay by Pauline Kael
Blue Collar has to be one of the most dogged pictures ever produced. Making his début as a director, Paul Schrader, the phenomenally successful young screenwrite...
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Critical Essay by Andrew Sarris
[In Blue Collar Schrader] seems to have been influenced by both Godard and Antonioni—the former in the deadening ritual of the assembly line itself, and the lat...
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Critical Essay by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
[In Blue Collar, one feels that Paul Schrader] has a distinctive imagination and eye without as yet a sure directorial instinct. The discordant elements in t...
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Critical Essay by Vincent Canby
[The films of Paul Schrader] are difficult to get hold of. They are not only about contradictions, they deal in them. As often as not they employ shock effects that ap...
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Berlin's annual film festival opened Thursday with a tribute to the turbulent story of diva Edith Piaf _ part of a strong French contingent at this year's event.Olivier Dahan's "La Vie en Rose" was...
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Director Wang Quan'an's "Tuya's Marriage," which follows the troubles of a young farming woman in fast-changing China, won the top Golden Bear award at the annual Berlin film festival on Saturday.T...
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Movies from Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh will rub shoulders at this year's Berlin film festival with productions from Israel and China, as well as a strong contingent from F...
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Berlin's annual film festival opened Thursday with a portrait of the turbulent story of Edith Piaf _ part of a strong French contingent at this year's event.Olivier Dahan's "La Vie en Rose" is the ...
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Today is Sunday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2007. There are 162 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 22, 1933, American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight aroun...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 22-28:July 22: Actor Orson Bean ("Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman") is 79. Actress Louise Fletcher is 73. Singer Chuck Jackson is 70. Actor Terence Stamp is 68. G...
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Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads, by Greil Marcus, Public Affairs, 283 pages, $25.Greil Marcus, writing about Sam Cooke's posthumously released single "A Change Is Gonna Come," rig...
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As far as I can determine, 2004 seems to be neither the best nor the worst year for movies, at least as far as the proportion of good (low, as always) to bad (high, as always) is concerned. Of cour...
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Paul (Joseph) Schrader
Critical Essay by Vincent Canby
Edith Piaf film opens Berlin film fest
