![]() ![]() ![]() Many of these movies feature an archetype Schrader calls “God’s lonely man,” or “the man in the room.” Solitary, obsessive, in turmoil, this man writes in a journal and waits, trying not to boil over. He is perhaps best known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese-“Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull” among them-but he has made more than twenty films of his own, including “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,” “Light Sleeper,” and “Affliction.” His greatest commercial success, “American Gigolo,” from 1980, with a young Richard Gere in Armani, helped set the tone and the look of the decade that followed. ![]() Schrader makes the sort of serious, character-driven films that always seem to be going out of fashion. ![]() He was sent home later that day, a Friday. The staff got me on oxygen and I realized what had happened. Gradually it became apparent that I was in a waking dream state and the staff calmed me down and got me back into bed. “He’s gonna die!” I screamed for help-finally hospital workers came into my room. I could not get anyone at the hospital to help me or take me seriously. I was directing a sequence about an emergency room rescue. Woke up in hospital room 3am this morn in a TOTAL panic. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |