Veteran director and screenwriter Paul Schrader will be honored at this year’s Lucaa Film Festival with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Italian event, which will take place from September 21 to 29, will also feature a retrospective of Schrader’s work, including Blue collar, hardcore, The comfort of strangers, Affliction, Autofocus, The walker, The canyons, The Card Counter, Master Gardener, MishimaAnd First Reformation.
On September 26, Schrader will give a public masterclass at Cinema Astra, which will be attended by film students from several Italian universities. The following day, he will receive the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
The director began his career as a screenwriter for Martin Scorsese with scripts for classics such as Angry Bull And Taxi driver before moving behind the camera for his directorial debut in 1978 Blue collara crime drama starring Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel. Schrader’s greatest commercial success came in the early 1980s with films such as American Gigolo (1980) with Richard Gere, and People who love cats (1982) with Nastassja Kinski. He celebrated a late-career revival with his trilogy “Man in a Room”, from 2017 First Reformationwith Ethan Hawke, which earned Schrader his nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars; and continues with The Card Counter (2021) with Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish, and Master Gardener (2022) with Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver.
His latest feature film, the literary adaptation Oh Canadastarring Richard Gere and Uma Thurman, premiered at Cannes.
Previous winners of the Lucca festival include David Lynch, William Friedkin, Susan Sarandon, Isabelle Huppert and Terry Gilliam.
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