Paul Schrader — Actor (8)
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
director: Kevin Burns / Steven C. Smith actor: Brandy Snow / Ingrid Pitt
Examines the relationship between sex, women, and the role of female sexuality in popular Hollywood culture, focusing on Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Jean Harlow, and Sharon Stone.
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Hitchcock/Truffaut
director: Kent Jones actor: Bob Balaban / Wes Anderson
other title: Truffaut møder Hitchcock
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
Eames: The Architect and the Painter (2011) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
director: Jason Cohn / Bill Jersey actor: James Edward Franco / Charles Eames
other title: Eames: architetti, pittori, designer / Eames: O Arquiteto e a Pintora
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames were America's most influential and important industrial designers. Admired for their creations and fascinating as individuals, they have risen to iconic status in American culture. Eames: The Architect and the Painter draws from a treasure trove of archival material, as well as new interviews with friends, colleague, and experts to capture the personal story of Charles and Ray while placing them firmly in the context of their fascinating times.
Tales from the Script (2009) [Movie] Douban
Tales from the Script
director: Peter Hanson actor: John Carpenter / Frank Darabont
other title: 剧本中的故事
Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), John Carpenter (Halloween), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share penetrating insights and hilarious anecdotes in Peter Hanson's Tales from the Script, the most comprehensive documentary ever made about screenwriting. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants explain how successful writers develop the skills necessary for toughing out careers in one of the world's most competitive industries. They also reveal the untold stories behind some of the greatest screenplays ever written, describing their adventures with luminaries including Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, Stanley Kubrick, Joel Silver, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg.
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business (2020) [Movie] TMDB
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
director: Justin McConnell actor: Tim League / Guillermo del Toro
Following five years in the life and career of independent filmmaker Justin McConnell, this documentary explores the struggles of financing, attracting the right talent, working with practical effects and selling the finished product in the hope of turning a profit. Featuring interviews with a range of industry luminaries, not only are technical aspects and interpersonal skills discussed but also the emotional stamina and little-known tips needed to survive in the low budget film industry.
We Blew It (2017) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
We Blew It
director: Jean-Baptiste Thoret actor: Ronee Blakley / Peter Bogdanovich
other title: We blew it / 我们搞砸了
How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams and utopias of the 1960's and 1970's? What do the people who lived in that golden age think about it today? Did they really blow it? Shot in Cinemascope - from New Jersey to California - this melancholic and elegiac road-movie draws upon the portrait of a confused, complex and incandescent America one year after the start of the electoral campaign. That golden age has become its last romantic border and an inconsolable America is about to pull on a trigger called Trump.
Dog Eat Dog (2016) [Movie] TMDB
Dog Eat Dog
director: Paul Schrader actor: Nicolas Cage / Willem Dafoe
other title: Cane mangia cane / Como Cães Selvagens
Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life.