Paul Schrader is a noted critic, screenwriter and director. By his mid-twenties he had already been a film reviewer for the LA 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 uncompromising Transcendental 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, and The Last Temptation of Christ. His directorial achievments include Blue Collar, American Gigolo, Mishima, Patty Hearst, The Comfort of Strangers, and Light Sleeper.