Veteran director and screenwriter will be honored at this year’s Lucaa Film Festival with a lifetime achievement award. The Italian event, which runs Sept. 21-29, will also screen a retrospective of Schrader’s work, including , , , , , , , , , , and .
On Sept. 26, Schrader will hold a public masterclass at the Cinema Astra, attended by film students from various 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 to such classics as and before stepping behind the camera for his 1978 directorial debut , a crime drama starring Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel. Schrader’s greatest commercial success came in the early 80s with films including (1980) starring Richard Gere, and (1982) with Nastassja Kinski. He celebrated a late-career revival with his “man in a room” trilogy, starting with 2017’s , starring Ethan Hawke, which earned Schrader his best original screenplay nomination at the Oscars; and continuing with (2021) featuring Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish, and (2022) starring Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver.
His most recent feature, the literary adaptation , starring Richard Gere and Uma Thurman, . Previous Lucca festival honorees include David Lynch, William Friedkin, Susan Sarandon, Isabelle Huppert, . THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day More from The Hollywood Reporter.
