Movie And Tv

Alan Berliner is a filmmaker and an insomniac. He says he does his best work and feels most alive late at night. His new film, Wide Awake, is part-insomnia diary and part-therapy session. It airs this week on HBO. Kurt Andersen drops in on Berliner at his studio in the middle of the night.

In today’s scary media landscape — full of layoffs and closing papers — arts coverage is especially vulnerable. Arts critics must invent new ways to do what they do. Film critic Mike D’Angelo and visual art critic Lori Waxman are two journalists blazing that trail. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.

Gene Winfield has been creating futuristic cars for nearly 50 years, including the vehicles in “Blade Runner” and the Delorean in “Back to the Future.” At 82, he’s still working. Studio 360’s Derek John headed into the Mojave Desert to see Winfield’s custom hot rod shop.

Broadway’s “Wishful Drinking” stars Carrie Fisher as Carrie Fisher. Like memoir of the same name, the one-woman show blurs the line between person and performer for the movie star, as she draws from the most painful periods in her life for comic material. She tells Kurt that her public life started even before “Star Wars.”