Director Paul Schrader will receive the Golden Lion for Achieving Life at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The Angry bull Y Taxi driver The screenwriter will receive the prize at the 79th edition of the event, which will take place from 31 August to 10 September at the Lido.
Upon receiving the award, Schroeder said: “I am honored. Venice is the lion of my heart.
Schrader was the last in Venice in 2021, with a drama film card counter Who directed and starred Oscar Isaacs and Tiffany Headish. Before your 2017 first refurbishedWith Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried, he made his Lido debut and was later nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Schreider’s other directing credits include cat people Y American gigolo. He has also written films such as Obsession, Yakuza Y The last temptation of Christ.
The decision on the Leone d’Oro was taken by the Council of the Venice Biennale, which accepted the proposal of the director of the festival, Alberto Barbera.
Barbera commented: “Paul Schroeder is a leading New Hollywood figure who has revolutionized the imagination, aesthetics and language of American cinema since the late 1960s. It is no exaggeration to say that he is one of America’s foremost directors. of his time. generation, a director deeply influenced by European cinema and culture and a stubbornly independent screenwriter who still knows how to work in order and move with confidence. Hollywood system. The bold visual stylization that accompanies all his films places him among the more current representatives of cinema, incompatible and subtly explorer of contemporaneity. Schrader distinguishes himself from this modernity not only for his restless intellectual and compassionate curiosity, but also for the technological evolution of cinema, as well as for his disturbing ability to juggle his production and distribution systems.Thanks to that courage (which many filmmakers of his cali bro do not want to savor in the mature phase of their career), Schrader not only continues to work, but in recent years he has also given us some of his best films of him.
Source: Deadline
