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Frida director Julie Taymor uses 30-odd Beatles songs to tell a brand-new story about a guy named Jude, who travels to the U.S. and gets caught up in the helter-skelter '60s — love-ins, riots, Vietnam, psychedelia, the works.

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.

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.

Fresh Air's film critic reviews the new Sean Penn film, adapted from the best-selling nonfiction narrative by Jon Krakauer.

Hanging art on hospital walls improves the sterile atmosphere. At least that's what people say. But Grayson Perry, the Times of London art critic, recently wrote an essay criticizing the practice. Perry says that art should challenge, not comfort — even in hospitals.

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.

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.

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.

A tricky, head-trippy mystery, John August's three-part cinematic thingamawhatzit seems to have been conceived as a film for puzzle addicts.

The Brave One features Jodie Foster as a public radio personality turned vigilante. Well, turnabout is fair play, right? So Liane Hansen, host of Weekend Edition Sunday, tries her hand at playing the role of the actress Jodie Foster.