Film Director and Screen Writer Paul Schrader.
Film director and screen writer Paul Schrader. His screenwriting credits include "Taxi Driver" and "The Last Temptation of Christ." Schrader's directing credits include "Hard Core," "Light of Day," "American Gigolo" and "Patty Hearst." Schrader's latest movie is the psychological drama, "The Comfort of Strangers," just out on video. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 4/18/91).
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Other segments from the episode on December 17, 1991
Photographer Susan Meiselas Returns to Nicaragua to Make a Film.
Photographer Susan Meiselas (My-SELL-us). She went to Nicaragua in the late 70s to photograph the Sandinista Revolution. She returned to Nicaragua recently to talk to the people she photographed more than ten years ago. Only this time she made a film about it, "Pictures From a Revolution."
Thoughts on the Dissolution of the U. S. S. R.
Commentary by Soviet emigre David Gurevitch (GIR-ah-vich). He's the author of "From Lenin to Lennon," a memoir about growing up in the 60s.
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