Venice film festival to honour Paul Schrader

Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader will receive the Golden Lion achievement of the 79th Venice International Film FestivalUS director and screenwriter Paul Schrader will receive the lifetime achievement Golden LIon at the 79th Venice International Film FestivalSchrader wrote and co-wrote four of Martin Scorsese’s screenplays: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Bringing Out the Dead.

He has also directed many prominent features including Oscar-nominated film The Card Counter as well as First Reformed, Cat People and American Gigolo.”Paul Schrader is a key figure of New Hollywood who, from the late 1960s on,

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