Film

Documentary film maker Frederick Wiseman. Wiseman's made more than 20 documentaries, but his most famous is his first. It was a 1967 film called "Titicut Follies," about the conditions inside a Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane. A state court banned the film, and it took 24 years for Wiseman to get the ban overturned. The film will be RE-premiered next week at New York's Film Forum. (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane).

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews "This Is My Life," the new comedy starring Julie Kavner as a cosmetic saleswoman turned stand-up comic. It's the directorial debut of writer Nora Ephron.

Composer Alan Menken. With his partner, the late lyricist Howard Ashman, Menken wrote the music for the Disney movies "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Little Mermaid." The pair also collaborated on the Broadway musical "Little Shop of Horrors." (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane).

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the new comedy "Wayne's World."

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews the soundtrack of the new movie "Naked Lunch."

Actor David Mcallum. He's still known for the TV role he had back in the 60s, as secret agent Illya Kuryakin in "The Man From UNCLE." Since then, he's had dozens of stage, TV, and movie roles. Currently, he has a supporting role as a police detective in the new English movie "Hear My Song."

Film critic Stephen Schiff analyzes the reasons behind the popularity of the thriller "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle."

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the new thriller, "Final Analysis," starring Richard Gere, Kim Bassinger, and Uma Thurman.

Special effects expert Jim Isaac. He did the special effects in the new David Cronenberg's new movie, "Naked Lunch."

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews "Shining Through," starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith as lovers who are also spies fighting the Nazis during World War Two.