Film

John Powers reviews "One True Thing," adapted from the Anna Quindlen movie of the same name.

Film critic John Powers looks at the work of two master film directors from Japan: Akira Kurosawa, who died last weekend, and Shohei Imamura, whose film "The Eel" is now opening in the US.

Murch re-edited Orson Well's 1958 film "Touch of Evil." At the time of the film's initial release, the studio remixed the film to Well's displeasure. He fired off a letter with suggested changes. With those notes as their guide, Murch and re-edit producer Rick Schmidlin have reconstructed the film to Well's intentions. Some of the other films he's edited and/or mixed are "The Conversation," "American Graffiti," "Apocalypse Now," "The Godfather (II, and III)"and "The English Patient."

Film critic John Powers reviews "Next Stop Wonderland," the second, commercial effort by Brad Anderson.

"Slums" is Jenkins first screenplay and directorial debut. Robert Redford read her script while she studied at the Sundance Filmmaker's Lab in Utah. Redford became the film's Executive Producer.

Plympton's work can be seen on MTV has a new feature length film, "I Married a Strange Person." Unlike computer animators, Plympton draws every frame of his films by hand. Each feature length film has 30-thousand individual drawings. Simpson's creator Matt Groening calls Plympton a God. The American Museum of the Moving Image in New York presented a retrospective of his work this month.

Film critic John Powers reviews "Your Friends & Neighbors."

TV critic David Bianculli has some thoughts on the Fall TV season's new "That '70s Show" and the movie version of "The Avengers," which is out in theatres now.

Actor Joe Mantegna. He's best known for his work with playwright David Mamet in the films "Homicide," "House of Games" and the plays "Speed-the Plow" and "Glengarry Glen Ross." He's currently starring as Dean Martin in the HBO film, "The Rat Pack." (it debuts August 22)

John Powers reviews the new movies "The Slums of Beverly Hills" and the re-releass of Fellini's "Night of Cabiria."