Every Paul Schrader Movie, Ranked
Paul Schrader didn’t watch a film until he turned 17 years old, and the Disney movie “The Absent-Minded Professor ” at a Grand Rapids, Michigan theater was his first sneaked escape from his strict Calvinist household. He wasn’t particularly moved by it. However, it was only when he delved into 1960s European cinema during college that he developed a passion for filmmaking. As Schrader explained to Nicolas Cage in “Interview” magazine, “We often love the movies we fell in love with when we first discovered cinema. For me, that was serious cinema.