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Hamburg-born Astrid Kirchherr met the Beatles in 1960, before they were famous. She took some of the earliest photographs of the group and was engaged to Stuart Sutcliffe, the Beatles' original bassist, before he died of a brain hemorrhage in 1962.

Javier Bardem just won a Golden Globe for his superbly frightening performance in No Country for Old Men. Bardem shares his thoughts on violence and facial expressions.

As part of a goodwill mission to the United States, the Royal Canadian Mounties have stationed officers in New York City's Bryant Park. Mounties Terry Russel and Gary Bartless take a break from their post to visit our studio.

Paris Fashion week is under way — but does it matter to people's everyday lives? Aaron Wong says yes. He is a Yale doctoral candidate and taught a seminar in fashion critical theory.

The fifth and final season of the acclaimed HBO drama The Wire has its season premiere Jan. 6. Fresh Air's TV critic has a preview.

Lady Liberty loses her head in this film's opening moments, and everything from the Chrysler Building to the Brooklyn Bridge comes tumbling down thereafter. Which sounds reasonably exciting, but the Blair Godzilla Project conceit gets annoying fast.

Fresh Air's TV critic previews the new series Breaking Bad, about a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher who decides that cooking crystal meth is the best way to support his family after he's gone. The show premieres on the AMC cable channel on Jan. 20.

Clark Johnson has worked as a director on several of TV's most memorable cop shows, including The Shield, Homicide: Life on the Street and the pilot episode of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire. This season, he's appearing on camera as well, as The Wire's City Editor Gus Haynes.

In Paul Thomas Anderson's new film There Will Be Blood, the young actor Paul Dano plays a rural preacher at odds with the oilman (Daniel Day-Lewis) at the center of the story. Dano previously appeared in Little Miss Sunshine, playing the teen who was an elective mute.

A pair of Irish hit men are sent to lie low in the Belgian burg that guidebooks call "the best-preserved medieval city anywhere in Europe." Martin McDonagh's shaggy-dog joke of a picture traffics in contrasts — and in blood, too.