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When the cultural revolution ended thirty years ago, Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou found themselves with no jobs, little education and an uncomfortable awareness of the rural China to which they'd been sent. When they returned to Beijing, they enrolled in the film institute and now are successful film directors. In 1984, Chen made his first film,

The City of San Diego proposed a $689,000 plan to get rid of the seals at the Children's Pool in La Jolla. Part of the plan is to use the recorded sounds of barking dogs to scare off the seals.

Can an author redeem herself after being convicted of literary forgery and theft? We'll talk with Lee Israel, author of "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" about what drove her to forge letters of famous peop

Tommy Lee Jones is probably best known for his performances in such popular films as Men in Black and The Fugitive. Now he tries his hand at directing with the border tale The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (opening February 10 at Landmarks Hillcrest Cinemas with an appearance by the filmmaker on opening night). The film was inspired by a real 1997 murder of a young Mexican-American by a Marine unit working the border patrol in Texas. KPBS film critic Beth Accomando has this review.

German filmmaker Tom Tykwer won a cult audience in 1999 with

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

What can we learn from babies? New scientific research is showing that babies and young children can help us understand how we learn about love, truth and life.

On this Film Club of the Air, we'll preview the summer movie season, and our critics will weigh in on an independent film about Iran's underground music scene and George Romero's latest zombie-filled critique of US society.

On this Film Club of the Air, we'll talk about a new documentary from a notorious and anonymous graffiti artist, the controversy surrounding "Kick-Ass," and the new film from Nicole Holofcener, "Please Give."

Adam Lambert shocked audiences at the American Music Awards, Glee becomes an unlikely hit, and Mad Men grabbed the spotlight. Television in 2009 had some hits and misses and we'll talk about both.