I would say that comparing Scroeder's French work to his American work is apples and oranges. In France he would be most known as the producer of many of Eric Rohmer's early films as well as an actor in some of them. They would be wry romantic comedies. ( considered too talky by some ). Also he acted in two Jacques Rivette films Out One and Celine and Julie Go Boating. Scroeder's American work is light-years from this work- best characterized as neo-noir. It is interesting that Rohmer who could be considered  Shroeder's mentor as he is much older than Shroeder who was only in his early 20s when he began to his career as a  producer published one of the first studies of the films of Alfred Hitchcock ( co-written with Claude Chabrol ) in the mid 1950s.