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  • Date of Birth: 22 July, 1946
  • Place of Birth: Grand Rapids, Michigan , U.S.
  • Biography: Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter and film director. His influences include Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu and Carl Dreyer, whose cross-cultural similarities he examined in Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (ISBN 0-306-80335-6) in 1972. Despite his credentials as a director, Schrader has received... Read more

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PTI After Danny Boyle, it is Paul Schrader, Hollywood's noted script writer-director who has turned his attention on Mumbai as he is set to depict city's underworld on the big screen in his upcoming film. ... Full Article

Amol Kamble / DNA Celebrated American director Paul Schrader says going by recent Hindi films, coy doesn't seem what the doctor ordered. Paul has been doing a secret reccee of the city for the past two years with Anubhav Sinha... ... Full Article

Mumbai, July 16 (IANS) Yet another foreign director has set his sights on Mumbai's slums. After Danny Boyle's dark and passionate look at the city in "Slumdog Millionaire", it is American director Paul Schrader's turn to make a film here. ... Full Article

By Subhash K. Jha, July 13, 2009 - 14:13 IST Post the success of Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire , Mumbai better brace itself for another slum saga from Hollywood. ... Full Article

Writers have always known there are a limited number of storylines. Christopher Booker's Seven Basic Plots popularised the number seven, but others have argued for three, 20 and 36 basic plots - Rudyard Kipling said 69. ... Full Article

Schrader, the writer of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and whose own directorial credits include Cat People , Light Sleeper , Blue Collar and American Gigolo , will receive the festival's Lifetime Achievement Award in Screenwriting. ... Full Article

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