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 th...
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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" … might...
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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 int...
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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]…. The...
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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 screenwriter...
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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 latt...
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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 th...
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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 app...
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Paul (Joseph) Schrader
