Film

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews Keith Gordon's new film "A Midnight Clear."

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the new Whoopi Goldberg movie, "Sister Act." (Buena Vista Pictures)

Maureen Corrigan looks at a series of books and a movie with canine heroes: the "Taxi Dog" books and "Beethoven."

Film critic John Powers reviews Alien 3.

Cinematographer and director Ed Lachman. He's shot films for many famous directors both in Europe and America, including Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Bernardo Bertolucci, Paul Schrader and David Byrne. He's also shot his own films and videos. He most recently worked on the new Hanif Kureishi film "London Kills Me."

Film critic John Powers reviews "Lethal Weapon 3."

Actress Christine Lahti. She starred in the movie "Housekeeping," co-starred with Goldie Hawn in "Swing Shift," which won her the New York film Critics Award as Best Supporting Actress, and is now in the new film "Leaving Normal." (Universal Pictures) She also has a long stage career, appearing in "The Heidi Chronicles." She talks about how hard it is for women to get good roles in Hollywood, and how she's turned many down because she didn't like the characters she'd be portraying.

Natasha Richardson has starred in the films "The Comfort of Strangers," "The Handmaids Tale" and "Patty Hearst." Now she plays Sybil in the new film "The Favor, The Watch and the Very Big Fish," an offbeat romantic comedy about a group of idiosyncratic characters living in Paris. (Trimark Pictures)

Documentary filmmaker Marcel Ophuls. He is best known for his 1970 work "The Sorrow and the Pity," about the conduct of the French people during the Holocaust. He also made the film "Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie." His latest work is about life behind the iron curtain and the changes underway in Europe since the fall of the Berlin wall.

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews "The Playboys," set in an Irish border town and starring Aidan Quinn (Samuel Goldwyn).