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...that's what it's shot for. But to reach people, it's good the VCR is out there. I see first-run theaters as becoming the 'loss leader' for the VCR, like hard-cover books for the paperback industry or a tuna special for the grocery store." Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Mishima) is even more emphatic: "The times they are achangin'. We should ride the technical and social evolution and speak to the medium most preferred. If the dinosaurs don't like it, too bad for them...
...chamber music, Glassworks, part of which was used by Jerome Robbins for a hit ballet called Glass Pieces, has sold 115,000 copies worldwide since its 1982 release. In Cannes recently, Glass and two others shared the prize for Best Artistic Contribution for their work on Director Paul Schrader's new film Mishima, about the Japanese novelist and warrior manque; Glass also scored Godfrey Reggio's 1982 vision of environmental apocalypse, Koyaanisqatsi. Currently the composer is finishing a new opera based on Novelist Doris Lessing's The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, to be premiered in Holland...
MARRIED. Mary Beth Hurt, 34, resourceful film and stage actress (The World According to Garp, Crimes of the Heart); and Paul Schrader, 37, kitschy film director (American Gigolo, Cat People); both for the second time; in Chicago...
...Scorsese-younger directors who can revitalize the box office and the art form? Some are locked into the industry's tradition-bound system of slow advancement, where experience is rewarded but rarely offered. "This brutal apprenticeship has long controlled the Japanese studio system," notes American Writer-Director Paul Schrader, who will soon go to Japan to film a biography of Novelist Yukio Mishima. "I think we're finally starting to see that system break down...
...relatively inexpensive to produce and because, you never know, one or two of them might surprise everybody and go Golden. The problem is that Hollywood's most talented young directors are not interested in making movies that appeal primarily to adults. Instead, as Writer-Director Paul Schrader has noted, "they remake the movies they loved as kids...