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Two Impressionist paintings stolen form a Zurich museum on Feb. 10 have been recovered from an abandoned car.

John Ridley, screenwriter for Undercover Brother and commentator for NPR, discusses why he is ready to cross the picket line. His op-ed, "John Ridley Goes Fi-core," appeared Tuesday in The Los Angeles Times.

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.

Woody Allen, now 72, talks about getting older, his trademark mixture of comedy and neurosis, and his most recent project, Cassandra's Dream, a film he wrote and directed that will be released this winter.

For more than 30 years, Camilo Jose Vergara has photographed murals of Martin Luther King Jr. found in inner-city neighborhoods around America. The paintings are sometimes faded or obscured, but all convey the reverence with which the artists treated their subject.

Chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer was a full-on celebrity after defeating Boris Spassky in 1972. His disappearance from public view in 1975 made him all the more mysterious. Fischer inspired books and movies and, in the 1980s, a musical.

Academy Award-winning actor Charlton Heston died Saturday at the age of 84. Heston, who starred in epic films such as Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments, later made a name for himself as a conservative activist.

The government in the Netherlands is trying to defuse Muslim anger over a new film that accuses the Quran of inciting violence. The Netherlands' ambassador to the United States, Christiaan Mark Johan Kröner, talks about the film, Fitna, by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders.

Persepolis, an animated film about growing up in post-revolutionary Iran, was nominated for an Oscar this year. The movie's critical attitude toward the Iranian revolution and the Islamic republic led Iran's government to denounce it. Many who have watched the movie say they identify with the film's main character.

Jules Dassin, an American filmmaker who worked in Europe for nearly 30 years, died this week in Athens, Greece. He left the U.S. in the early 1950s, blacklisted for his youthful membership in the Communist Party.