In September, #Soggettiva explores the work of the great American director and screenwriter Paul Schrader, winner of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2022.
On Saturday 28 September at 4.30 pm, Schrader is the guest star of a masterclass. The review includes a selection of the director’s most iconic titles, including American Gigolo (1980), Cat People (1982), Light Sleeper (1992) and The Card Counter (2021).
BIOGRAFIA
Critic, director, screenwriter, and key figure of the New Hollywood movement, to which he contributed at the beginning of his career by writing some of its most iconic films (Taxi Driver, 1976; Raging Bull, 1980), Paul Schrader made his debut as a director in 1978 with Blue Collar. Hardcore followed in 1979 and in 1980 American Gigolo, a resounding success with the audience. In 1982, he directed Cat People starring Nastassja Kinski, a remake of the film by Jacques Tourneur. In 1992, he filmed Light Sleeper with Willem Dafoe and in 1997, Affliction. He participated in the Venice Film Festival in 2013 with The Canyons and in 2017 with First Reformed. The latter, which earned Schrader a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 2018 Academy Awards, is the first in a trilogy that continued in 2021 with The Card Counter and in 2022 with Master Gardener, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where the director was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. He participated in the 2024 Cannes Film Festival with the film Oh, Canada.