Arts May 28 Conversation: Debra Granik, Director of Sundance Favorite ‘Winter’s Bone’ In "Winter's Bone" -- originally a novel by Daniel Woodrell and now a film by director Debra Granik -- 17-year-old Ree Dolly must find her troubled father who has disappeared just as he put up the family's house as bail.
Arts May 27 Conversation: Jonathan Galassi, President of Book Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux On Tuesday, a panel of publishers, book agents, authors and booksellers kicked off Book Expo America 2010 -- the major annual U.S. publishing convention and exposition held in New York each year -- by asking a fundamental, but newly challenging…
Arts May 21 Conversation: Isabel Allende "Island Beneath the Sea," by author Isabel Allende, is set in the early 19th-century, amid colonial powers and slavery, and a chaotic period in Caribbean history. It also involves two places very much in the news in our own time:…
Arts May 18 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Henri Cartier-Bresson French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson traveled the world for decades capturing people, places and history as a journalist, and in the process, helped define photography as an art form. His legacy is now on display in an exhibit called 'Henri Cartier-Bresson:…
Arts May 14 Conversation: Director Alex Gibney on ‘Casino Jack and the United States of Money’ It involves casinos, the murder of a Greek tycoon, intrigue in Washington and much more. But the film, "Casino Jack and the United States of Money" is a documentary unwinding the trail of super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- once a powerful…