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Timothy Treadwell spent 13 summers among the grizzly bears of Alaska before one killed him. Film critic Kenneth Turan says director Werner Herzog has fashioned a riveting story of Treadwell's obsession.

Tuesday marks the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, the second of two atomic-bomb strikes on Japan that ended World War II. The effects of those attacks continue to affect Japanese culture today.

The Pentagon and U.N. human rights investigators are in a standoff over access to the more than 500 people being held at the Guantanamo Bay military detention center. Last week, the Defense Department invited the United Nations to visit the base, but under conditions that the investigators say they cannot accept.

Filmmaker Noah Baumbach talks about The Squid and the Whale, his new film about an ostensibly sophisticated family in mid-80s Brooklyn struggling with separation.

Actor Christian Bale is Bruce Wayne -- and of course his alter ego Batman -- in the film Batman Begins, now out on DVD. Bale's other films include American Psycho, Laurel Canyon, Capt. Corelli's Mandolin, and The Machinist. Bale is also the voice of Howl in the new Japanese animated film Howl's Moving Castle. Originally aired on June 13, 2005.

The new film The Weatherman stars Nicholas Cage and Michael Caine. Film critic Daivd Edelstein has a review.

Jarhead tells the story of a Marine sniper whose unit is sent to the Middle East for the Iraq conflict of 1991. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, who narrates the film; Jamie Foxx; and Peter Sarsgaard. It was directed by Sam Mendes, who won an Oscar for American Beauty.

Music journalist Ashley Kahn talks to filmmaker Cameron Crowe and others about the changing nature of movie soundtracks. Original music is out, while compilations of popular hits are in.

Sigur Ros, a five-piece band from Iceland, makes spacey progressive music, with often-indecipherable lyrics. Its fourth studio CD is called Takk..., which means "Thanks."

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan offers his weekly roundup what film critics are saying about this weekend's new movie releases -- Doom, North Country and Shopgirl.