Film

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews "Truth or Dare," the new documentary about pop singer Madonna. He says it reveals a lot about her carefully cultivated image, which finds power in sexuality.

Film critic Owen Gleiberman reviews the new home video release of "Tune in Tomorrow," based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter."

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews Sylvester Stallone's new movie "Oscar," a 1930s gangster comedy that feels like a 1960s French stage play. Schiff says it lacks the over-the-top approach needed to make farce succeed.

Nuyen played Susie Wong in the Broadway production of "The World of Susie Wong," was in the film version of "South Pacific." And she played the Vietnamese doctor on the television show, "St Elsewhere." She's now starring "China Cry," a new movie on the Christian Broadcasting network

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the re-release of the 1960 movie, "Spartacus," directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis, and Kirk Douglas. It contains previously cut and censored scenes featuring sexually suggestive material.

Richard Marriott, the leader of the San Francisco-based band The Club Foot Orchestra. They've written new music to accompany the classic silent films "Nosferatu," and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari."

Wendell's new movie is "Chameleon Street," about an imposter: a young black man who successfully passed himself off as a surgeon, a Yale Student, a Time magazine journalist, and an attorney. It's based on a true story, and won the 1990 Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Film.

Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee and editor Marilyn Levine. He made the film, "Sherman's March," in which he set out to trace William Tecumseh Sherman's march to the sea -- but it really traces his entanglements with Southern women along the way. During the editing of that film, he and Levine fell in love. McElwee's new film, "Something to Do With The Wall," began as a story about the eternal presence of the Berlin Wall, but ended up a story of the wall's breaking down.

In 1960, Curtis starred in the film, "Spartacus," about a leader of slaves revolting against Republican Rome. A restored version of the film is being released that includes previously cut scenes, including a homoerotic exchange between Curtis and co-star Laurence Olivier.

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the new French film, "Daddy Nostalgia," starring Dirk Bogard as a man at the end of his life reconnecting with his daughter.