When we speak of the people who shaped cinema in the New Hollywood era of the 1970s, it’s impossible to avoid the names Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese. The duo’s first collaboration, 1976’s Taxi Driver, for which Scorsese directed Schrader’s screenplay, became a critical and box office hit, but also helped shape the gritty antihero cinema of the era. The duo collaborated three more times on some of their most critically acclaimed films 1980’s Raging Bull, 1988’s The Last Temptation of Christ, and finally, 1999’s Bringing Out the Dead.
Despite remaining friends after all these years, Paul Schrader doesn’t think he and Martin Scorsese will be collaborating on a project anytime soon. Read More