Obsession (1976)
Feb 6, 2002Reincarnation Thriller
Brian De Palma with Paul Schrader on script make a homage to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo with Cliff Robertson wandering Venice believing he has found the reincarnation of his late wife
Paul Schrader
Taxi Driver (1976)
Jun 14, 2002Urban Psychosis
Possibly the best film made by Martin Scorsese. A disturbing vision of urban psychosis set in a morally festering New York City where the psycho, Robert De Niro’s title character who spills over with pent-up violence, actually becomes the hero of the show
Cat People (1982)
Jun 16, 2014Human-Feline Transformation
The remake of Cat People. In the hands of Paul Schrader, all the ambiguity is made overt and the film becomes one of Schrader's allegories for tormented sexuality. On its own terms, this is an often smoulderingly sensual work
The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
May 9, 2001Psycho-Sexual Obsession in Venice
A Paul Schrader director psycho-sexual thriller set in a beautifully brooding Venice as a couple are befriended by menacing husband and wife Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren
Touch (1997)
Apr 7, 1999Faith Healer
Paul Schrader adapts an Elmore Leonard novel about a youth who suddenly becomes sought by various parties when it is discovered he has miracle healing powers but the results never quite come off
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Oct 25, 1999Urban Hell/Haunted Ambulance Driver
Martin Scorsese returns to the vision of urban hell he gave us in Taxi Driver with Nicolas Cage as an ambulance driver haunted the dead he sees. Powerful, blackly funny at times, if not quite up there as another Taxi Driver
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist (2005)
Aug 10, 2011Demonic Possession
Paul Schrader's original version of Exorcist: The Beginning that was junked by the producers. This is a far more subtle telling of the same story that eschews shock effect in favour of a moral struggle of the soul