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Writer and director Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums) and actor Jason Schwartzman (I Heart Huckabees) discuss their latest film, The Darjeeling Limited. The adventure comedy, also starring Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody, follows three estranged brothers on a spiritual quest to India.

With 30-odd Beatles songs, Frida director Julie Taymor tells a story about a guy named Jude, a girl named Lucy, and the helter-skelter '60s. Magical mystery tour, anyone?

Exquisitely filmed Assassination of Jesse James lends the heft of Greek tragedy to an oft-told saga. Brad Pitt won an acting prize, but it's Casey Affleck's needy, creepy Robert Ford you can't take your eyes off.

Fresh Air's film critic reviews Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah, which stars Tommy Lee Jones as a former military MP — and the father of a young soldier who's gone AWOL after returning from active duty in Iraq.

He's played a Nazi war criminal, a super mutant with a magnetic personality, and a master of Middle Earth magic. Now Ian McKellen returns to the stage to play one of its most challenging parts: Shakespeare's King Lear. He joins Farai Chideya to talk about his style, his favorite actors and his love for Lena Horne.

When Ken Burns set his sights on World War II, he found a far different conflict than the "good war" we've come to know. His new PBS documentary, The War, tells the stories of young soldiers who are now dying off by the thousands.

Fresh Air's TV critic previews The War, the new documentary series about World War II from filmmaker Ken Burns (The Civil War). It premieres Sept. 23 on PBS.

Viggo Mortensen stars in Eastern Promises, a new David Cronenberg thriller set in London, in the dangerous underworld of sex trafficking. Cronenberg and Mortensen's last collaboration was the acclaimed 2005 film A History of Violence.

Comedian Demetri Martin is probably best known for his appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He's also written for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, for which he garnered an Emmy nomination. He's released a DVD called Person — a version of his one-hour Comedy Central special, which aired earlier this year.

Following up on their platinum debut album, Into the Rush, the sister act Aly & AJ serves up Insomniatic, an album heavy on the teen-relationship tunes. Fresh Air's rock critic reviews the latest from the sisters Michalka.