Lucca Film Festival to Honor Paul Schrader

Screen playwright and movie director for forty years Paul Schrader has been selected to receive a lifetime achievement award at the next year Lucaa Film Festival. 
 
The Italian event which will take place between September 21 and 29, will also have a retrospective of Schrader’s films such as Blue Collar, Hardcore, The Comfort of Strangers, Affliction, Auto Focus, The Walker, The Canyons, The Card Counter, Master Gardener, Mishima, and First Reformed. 
 
,On the 26th of September Schrader is to conduct a master lesson in the cinema “Astra” which will be attended by students of the film department of several Italian Universities. The next day he will be honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award of the festival. 
 
He was a screenwriter for Martin Scorsese for such scripts for Raging Bull and Taxi Driver, and directed his first movie Blue Collar a crime drama with Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel a year later in 1978. Schrader’s highest financial achievement was at the beginning of the 80s, the movies with which were appreciated by the audience are American Gigolo (1980) with Richard Gere, Cat People (1982) with Nastassja Kinski. He did this with his so-called ‘man in a room’ trilogy that began with First Reformed in 2017 with Ethan Hawke starring, which received Schrader an original screenplay Oscar nomination; The Card Counter, released in 2021 with Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish; and Master Gardener in 2022 with Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver. 
 
His most recent feature the movie Oh Canada based on literature has Richard Gere and Uma Thurman and was premiered in Cannes-2006. 
 
The previous Lucca festival awardees were David Lynch, William Friedkin, Susan Sarandon, Isabelle Huppert and Terry Gilliam.