All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Paul Schrader, ranked

Renowned film critic and historian Mark Cousins skillfully guides viewers on a captivating journey through the history of film and filmmaking. Through the use of film clips, interviews with filmmakers, and illustrative footage of various locations worldwide, he provides an immersive experience that spans from the late 19th century to the present day, with a notable focus on world cinema.

In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. The film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time. Hitchcock’s incredibly modern art is elucidated and explained by today’s leading filmmakers: Scorsese, David Fincher, Arnaud Desplechin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, James Gray, Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater, Peter Bogdanovich and Paul Schrader.

Disc-jockey-turned-actor Bob Crane develops a secret personal life, focusing on his relationship with John Henry Carpenter, an electronics expert involved with the nascent home video market. Encouraged by Carpenter and enabled by his expertise, Crane becomes a sex addict obsessed with women and with recording his encounters using video and photographic equipment.

Unmarried English couple Colin and Mary are vacationing in Venice for a second time, in an attempt to rekindle their passionless relationship. As they meander through the city visiting landmarks, they are surreptitiously photographed by a stranger. Over dinner, Mary questions Colin as to whether he likes her two children, whom she conceived during her last marriage.

After the conclusion of World War II, a former circus performer, who miraculously survived the horrors of the gas chambers, assumes the role of ringleader at an asylum dedicated to caring for Holocaust survivors.

A young man, Juvenal, is apparently able to cure the sick by the laying-on of hands. The former evangelist Bill Hill persuades his friend Lynn Faulkner to befriend the innocent ex-monk and encourage him to aim for the big-time. But matters become complicated when the young couple falls in love, and even more complicated when fundamentalist August Murray takes exception to their relationship.

Long before Father Lankester Merrin played a role in saving Regan MacNeil’s soul, his first encounter with the demon Pazuzu took place in East Africa. This initial battle with Pazuzu ultimately led to Merrin rediscovering his faith.

Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life. Troy, an aloof mastermind, seeks an uncomplicated, clean life but cannot get away from his hatred for the system. Troy constructs the perfect crime and they pull it off, but in the aftermath, they keep finding the law surrounding them wherever they go.