TV Guide: Paul Schrader

Listing: Decade Under the Influence

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0500

Tue Nov 17 06:00 AM IFC How independent and foreign film directors influenced 1970s filmmakers. Among those interviewed: Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Julie Christie, Sydney Pollack, Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Altman.

Video: Taxi Driver -- (Movie Clip) You Talkin' to Me?

TCM — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) in his apartment rehearsing, in the most famous scene from Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, 1976, from Paul Schrader's screenplay.

Video: American Gigolo [HD]

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A slick Los Angeles callboy finds love and redemption in Paul Schrader's ultra-stylish drama. High-living prostitute Julian Kay (Richard Gere, stepping in for John Travolta) has it all: the Mercedes, the clothes, access to Beverly Hills' swankiest establishments, and a stable of rich, older female clients. But it all falls apart after he does a favor for his former pimp (Bill Duke) and the trick turns up dead a short while later; Julian's actual client won't give him an alibi, and police detective Sunday (Hector Elizondo) doesn't believe the gigolo's denials. The one person who can help him is frustrated politician's wife (and sole non-paying bedmate) Michelle (Lauren Hutton), if only Julian could let down his defenses and accept her gesture of love. Mixing his admiration for European art cinema with a voyeuristic view of the seamier side of sex and affluence, Schrader renders Julian an inscrutable, emotionally disengaged purveyor of pleasure, decked out in Giorgio Armani clothes coord

Video: Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy Of A Hollywood Renegade

Starz — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Synopsis: The westerns of maverick American director Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch) are explored by an all-star Hollywood lineup in this Encore Westerns original documentary. With Billy Bob Thornton, Benicio Del Toro, Kris Kristofferson.

Video: Cat People

Starz — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Synopsis: Myth, reality, fantasy and horror collide in New Orleans - the last two of a legendary people become involved in a surreal, sexy love triangle that can only end in doom. Then there are the reports of killer leopards roaming the city.

Video: Two Fathers Differ Over Iraq

CBS News — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Paul Schrader and Bob Derga, two fathers of fallen Marines, assess the merits of fighting the war in Iraq after losing their sons to combat battle.

Video: The Walker

IMDB Videos — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500

This is the U.S. theatrical trailer for The Walker, directed by Paul Schrader.

Video: Good Cop, Bad Cop

Amazon Video on Demand — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) and Marie Schrader (Betsy Brandt) start off the night role playing and really enjoying one another's company when all of a sudden to night quickly ends on a really bad note.

Video: Wedding Day

Amazon Video on Demand — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) breaks bad the night before his wedding and starts experiencing wedding jitters, while Walt White (Bryan Cranston) tries his best calm him down until he finds out exactly what Hank has done.

Video: Marie's Confessions

Amazon Video on Demand — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

When Marie Schrader's (Betsy Brandt) court-appointed therapist advises her to begin doing a video diary, she decides to immediately comply. As she starts rolling the tape, Marie begins to realize a ton about herself.

Video: American Gigolo

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: 'The Walker' - Trailer No. 1

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500

With The Walker, Paul Schrader unofficially updates themes and tropes first explored by his controversial erotic thriller American Gigolo (1980). Woody Harrelson stars as Carter Page III, an overtly gay, Virginia senator's son, paid as an asexual escort of middle-aged women in the upper-crust circles of Washington, D.C. Carter's regular clients include three politicos' wives: Natalie Van Miter (Lauren Bacall), Abigail Delorean (Lily Tomlin), and Lynn Lockner (Kristin Scott Thomas), to whom Carter is closest - so close that he squires her, regularly, to sexual rendezvous with her lover, the lobbyist Robbie Kononsberg (Steven Hartley). When an unknown perpetrator stabs Robbie to death, and Lynn discovers his murdered body at his condo, Carter attempts to protect Lynn and her husband, Larry (Willem Dafoe), from media intrusion by informing the police that he found the body himself, despite the fact that it makes him an immediate suspect. In time, Carter discovers from the women (during th

Video: American Gigolo

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: American Gigolo

CinemaNow — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: The Yakuza

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

From Academy Award-winning director Sidney Pollack ("The Firm," "Absence of Malice") comes this suspenseful adventure about a Harry Kilmer (Oscar-nominee Robert Mitchum, "Cape Fear"), an American man determined to rescue his employer's kidnapped daughter from the Japanese mafia in Kyoto. Written by Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull") and Acadamy Award-winner Robert Towne ("Chinatown," "Tequila Sunrise"). "Dazzling displays of swordplay," praises Newsweek, while Rex Reed proclaims this "an exciting, riveting, totally original motion picture."

Video: The Yakuza

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Exorcist: The Beginning Trailer

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Planned for years, but plagued by problems such as the death of director John Frankenheimer before production had even begun and the exiting of star Liam Neeson, the fourth installment of the Exorcist saga finally got off the ground with Paul Schrader (Affliction, Auto Focus) behind the camera and Stellan Skarsg rd filling the shoes left empty by Neeson. But the pitfalls didn't stop there, as Morgan Creek decided against their initial approach assigned to Schrader after seeing his finished cut, and hired Renny Harlin to reshoot the film with extra gore and head-spinning nastiness. The first prequel in the series, Exorcist: The Beginning is based upon events occurring before the first film. Playing the character made famous by Max von Sydow in the earlier films, this entry finds Skarsg rd as a young Father Merrin facing true evil for the first time in Africa in the wake of World War II. When a young local boy begins to behave strangely, it becomes more and more apparent to Merrin that t

Video: 'Exorcist: The Beginning' - 'Who Buried Them?'

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Video: 'Exorcist: The Beginning' - 'Do You Know Why The Men Won't E

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Video: 'Exorcist: The Beginning' - 'You Must Be Careful'

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500