But the enlargement of life itself is profound. Also this week: the 40th anniversary of Paul Schrader’s ‘Mishima,’ a 4K restoration of Lina Wertmüller’s ‘Swept Away’ and ‘Looking ...

Filmmaker Paul Schrader, the screenwriter behind “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull,” has been accused of sexually assaulting his much younger assistant and, after firing her in the fall ...

NEW YORK — Paul Schrader, the writer of “Taxi Driver” and director of “American Gigolo,” has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting his former personal assistant, firing her ...

Paul Schrader has been accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault by a former assistant who also alleges that the screenwriter-director reneged on a settlement that was agreed upon by both ...

Paul Schrader, the screenwriter of “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull,” has been accused in a legal filing of sexually harassing his former assistant, and of backing out of an agreement to pay ...

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He wrote Taxi Driver and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, the latter telling the story of the bodybuilding Japanese novelist who tried to lead a coup de tat with a samurai sword. He’s especially ...

It is hard to imagine the brilliant novelist Yukio Mishima taking a driving test, but he did in 1962, eight years before his sensational ritual suicide. At the somewhat mature age of 37 ...

And that makes it worthwhile. To mark the film’s 40th anniversary, the American Cinematheque will screen Paul Schrader’s 1985 “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” on Saturday at the Egyptian ...

Tim Molloy: I don’t know what those are. But the biggest influence is Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, a Paul Schrader film from the ’80s. That was my biggest influence for creating the alien world.

Jacob Elordi plays a young Fife, channelling the eroticism of a young Gere — we have a film that seems to come full circle with early Schrader obsessions laid bare in films like Mishima and American ...

“Human life is limited, but I would like to live forever,” read the note Yukio Mishima left on his desk shortly before he left home for the final time. Mishima, who would have turned 100 ...