The key director and screenwriter of New Hollywood arrives in Turin where on May 22nd he will receive the Stella della Mole Award during a Masterclass in which he will retrace the stages of his career.
Paul Schrader in Turin. The director and screenwriter is about to land on cinema’s Museum where on May 22nd he will receive the Stella della Mole Award and hold a conference masterclasses in which he will retrace the stages of his career.
Since his first film credit in 1974 – over the course of a career spanning five decades and over 30 films – Paul Schrader has established himself as a well-rounded writer and director capable ofbold visual stylization and penetrating psychological realism around profound and stimulating themes, managing to create a reflective and provocative cinema, characterized by a strong authorial personality. The National Cinema Museum of Turin pays homage to one of the crucial creators of modern cinema, who traced a compelling, singular and sometimes contradictory artistic and expressive path, placing himself almost as the only American to have made significant contributions as a screenwriter, director and movie critic.
Key figure of New Hollywood – which from the end of the Sixties led to the rebirth of American cinema – Schrader collected a series of successes writing screenplays for films directed by Sidney Pollack and Brian De Palma, without forgetting those of Taxi Driver And Wild bull among some of his most fruitful collaborations with Martin Scorsese. He has since dabbled behind the camera with all manner of subjects, genres and styles over the course of a long-lasting, high-profile, usually unpredictable and only intermittently mainstream career.
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Refined author of numerous modern classics, Schrader will hold a Masterclass on May 22, 2024 at 7:00 pm in the Aula del Tempio of the Mole Antonelliana and, at 8:30 pm at the Cinema Massimo he will present a special screening of First Reformed (2017), with Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried, which earned him an Oscar nomination for best screenplay.
The director of acclaimed hits such as Blue Collar And American Gigolo will converse with the Director of the Museum Domenico De Gaetano, retracing his career from his first successes to his most recent projects, passing through his cinema of loners and lost souls, often characterized by characters on the margins of society. Before the event – curated by Marco Fallanca – Paul Schrader will receive the Stella della Mole Award in recognition of his exceptional dedication to the art of cinema.
