Film

Film Critic Stephen Schiff reviews new movie "First Knight."

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the new movie starring Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte. Schiff says it never manages to get beyond kind of cute.

Speech Therapist Sam Chwat. Chwat's New York Speech Improvement Services attracts 200 to 250 clients a week. He taught Robert DeNiro how to gain an Appalachian accent for his role in "Cape Fear." Julia Roberts sought him out to relearn her southern drawl for "Steel Magnolias." He helped another southerner, Andie McDowell, after her lines for "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan" were dubbed by Glenn Close.

Television and movie score composer Henry Mancini, who died of cancer on Tuesday. He is best known for composing "Moon River" for the film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and the title theme to the movie "The Pink Panther." In 1954 he received his first Academy Award nomination for his score to "The Glenn Miller Story," and in 1961 his score for the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's" won that year's Academy Award.

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the new film "Wolf."

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the new summer thriller, "Speed," starring Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper.

Rebroadcast a January 14, 1992 interview with Dennis Potter who died today at the age of 59.

Independent film director, producer and writer Rose Troche. She and co-producer and co-writer Guinevere Turner have made the new lesbian comedy, "Go Fish." The movie is being hailed as the newest "crossover hit." The two say they wanted to make a film about the community they lived in: "young, urban, multicultural, out, and burning up the phone lines gossiping about who went home with who last night." (The film played at the New York Lesbian and Gay Film festival in May, and opens at the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, June 9.

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the new film, "Widow's Peak," starring Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, and Natasha Richardson.

Film Director John Dahl. His new film is a thriller called "Red Rock West." It takes place in a tough little town in Wyoming over a forty-eight hour period. It has a film noir feeling and plot that twists and turns. It stars Nicholas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle and J.T. Walsh.