A critic and a screenwriter, Paul Schrader is also responsible for directing films such as "American Gigolo" and "Cat People". This book charts in his own words Schrader's journey from critic to screenwriter to director and includes a selection of his most influential critical essays.
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Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1946, Paul Schrader was raised in a Calvinist household where movies were proscribed. He made up for lost time by becoming first a gifted critic, then the screenwriter of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, then the director of a string of cerebral and provocative films, including Blue Collar (1978), American Gigolo (1980), Mishima (1985), Patty Hearst (1988), The Comfort of Strangers (1990), Affliction (1997), Autofocus (2002), Dominion (2005), The Walker (2007), Adam Resurrected (2008), The Canyons (2013), and Dying of the Light (2014).
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