Alan J. Pakula is an actor's director; the number of Oscar winners and nominees under his direction is impressive--but not surprising. A graduate of the Yale Drama Department, his first love was theatre, but he took to films at an early age. In partnership with director Robert Mulligan, he produced Fear Strikes Out, followed by a number of memorable films from the sixties including To Kill a Mockingbird and Inside Daisy Clover. When Pakula began directing films, he invariably tackled challenging dramas, from The Sterile Cuckoo, through Klute, to Sophie's Choice; in The Paralax View and All the President's Men (his choice for tonight's presentation), he created drama out of politics. In All the President's Men, "the story of the century" gets a film noir treatment as the paranoia of Nixon's White House spreads like a disease through the shadowy streets and underground parking lots, to the suburban kitchens of Washington, D.C. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star as the two young Washington Post reporters, Bernstein and Woodward, who broke the floodgates on Watergate. The tightly woven thriller is suspenseful, even though, or perhaps because, we know the story inside and out.