Paul Schrader

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q363989: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to The Last Temptation of Christ, which After Hours with Alison Sivitz credits them on.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Mission: Impossible (1996); Twisters (2024); Gershwin biopic (unmade). Count them as director (5 films), writer (3 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Bill Paxton: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Twisters (2024), which they were tied to as filmgoer / director: Bill Paxton ⇒ Twisters (the host's read). Powell calls Twisters a seminal movie of his Texas upbringing and honors Paxton from the original.
    “Bill Paxton was such a, you know, he's a Texas film hall of fame guy”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:09:36 · Glen Powell (0.90 sure it was them)

Jules Dassin: 1 line

  1. lineage (homage source) · through Mission: Impossible (1996), which they were tied to as peripheral filmmaker compared to De Palma: Jules Dassin ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read). Dassin's heist classics are the model for the Langley break-in.
    “the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Psycho (1960): 1 line

  1. lineage (Hitchcock structural homage) · through Mission: Impossible (1996), which they were tied to as peripheral filmmaker compared to De Palma: Psycho ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read). Killing off Kristin Scott Thomas's star-billed character early mirrors Psycho killing Janet Leigh.
    “it's completely Hitchcocky and it's killing Janet Lee after 40 minutes.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:29:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Rififi (1955): 1 line

  1. lineage (heist homage) · through Mission: Impossible (1996), which they were tied to as peripheral filmmaker compared to De Palma: Rififi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read). The silent Langley vault heist echoes the Rififi heist where an alarm is triggered by sound.
    “my favorite heist movies were Fifi, which has a heist uh, portion where they very similar, they drill through the roof and it's all in silence”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:24:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

The Fast and the Furious (2001): 1 line

  1. lineage (franchise influence) · through Mission: Impossible (1996), which they were tied to as peripheral filmmaker compared to De Palma: The Fast and the Furious ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read). The modern MI films combine Bourne-style hand-to-hand combat with Fast and the Furious over-the-top action.
    “the 2 biggest influences on Mission Impossible are born in the Fast and the Furious.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:18:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

The Fugitive (1993): 1 line

  1. unmapped (TV-to-film precedent) · through Mission: Impossible (1996), which they were tied to as peripheral filmmaker compared to De Palma: The Fugitive ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read). The Fugitive proved a classic TV property could be a big-screen box-office hit, which opened the door for Mission: Impossible.
    “the fugitive proved that there was box office potential and television IP on the big screen.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:02:32 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Lady Vanishes (1938): 1 line

  1. lineage (Hitchcock homage) · through Mission: Impossible (1996), which they were tied to as peripheral filmmaker compared to De Palma: The Lady Vanishes ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read). The European mystery shades of the film recall The Lady Vanishes and Shadow of a Doubt.
    “Lady Vanishes or, or, uh, even like Shadow of a Doubt in some respects”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 1:06:25 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)

Topkapi (1964): 1 line

  1. lineage (heist homage) · through Mission: Impossible (1996), which they were tied to as peripheral filmmaker compared to De Palma: Topkapi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read). Langley heist is an homage to the Jules Dassin heist classics Topkapi and Rififi.
    “the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics of uh, top copy and uh, Rafifi.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018): 2 lines

  1. lineage (callback) · through Mission: Impossible (1996), which they were tied to as peripheral filmmaker compared to De Palma: Mission: Impossible ⇒ Mission: Impossible – Fallout (the host's read). Every later MI film calls back to the Langley drop as a hallmark.
    “I realized that they call back to that specific moment every time”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (franchise template) · through Mission: Impossible (1996), which they were tied to as peripheral filmmaker compared to De Palma: Mission: Impossible ⇒ Mission: Impossible – Fallout (the host's read). Every MI film reuses the same three-set-piece structure plus a McGuffin, which is why the franchise is elastic.
    “they used the same exact structure in every single movie that came forward.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:11:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (5) everyone in directing

Writing (5) everyone in writing

Other (4) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Paul Schrader → Renny Harlin. The Schrader and Harlin Exorcist prequels are the same movie but not; more interesting if you've seen Harlin's.
    “the Schrader and the Harlan movies, which are the same movie, but not.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:35:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (peripheral auteurs): Brian De Palma → Paul Schrader. Both are tortured by their relationship to Hollywood and brought in to studio jobs.
    “the guys who are like really tortured by their relationship to Hollywood, like Paul Schrader and De Palma”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 1:07:09 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (COVID shoot): Paul Schrader → The Card Counter. Schrader wanted to finish The Card Counter during COVID.
    “Let's just finish the card counter at very least.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 0:51:52 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Paul Schrader: Schrader's first draft had Jesus taking his heart out and a literal Last Supper of eating flesh; his big contribution was outlining 300-400 scenes from the book.
    “Paul's 1st version, apparently, he has Jesus taking his heart out.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 0:46:13 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Paul Schrader: Schrader saw Twisters in 4DX and posted about it on Facebook; he walked out of another film and emailed Bilge after being told to see All We Imagine as Light.
    “He loved twisters.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:03:44 · Bilge Ebiri (0.50 sure it was them)