Taxi Driver (Faber Film)
Paul Schrader is a noted critic, screenwriter and director. By his mid-twenties he had already been a film reviewer for theLA Free Press, while a graduate student at UCLA; editor of his own magazine,Cinema; Fellow in Criticism of the American Film Institute; and author of the uncompromisingTranscendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer.By the mid-seventies he was one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters, eventually writing three films for Martin Scorsese:Taxi Driver, Raging Bull,andThe Last Temptation of Christ.His directorial achievments includeBlue Collar, American Gigolo, Mishima, Patty Hearst, The Comfort of Strangers,andLight Sleeper.