The Treatment

The Australian musical Bran Nue Dae, starring Missy Higgins, Geoffrey Rush, Rocky McKenzie and Jessica Mauboy, happens to be a comedy of aborigines. It's the Mama Mia of race. Director Rachel Perkins ...

15 Sep 201029min

Writer-director Will Gluck likes self-aware characters. He wrote for the TV soap-satire Grosse Pointe and co-created the show The Loop. His newest film is the updated version of The Scarlett Letter. ...

8 Sep 201029min

It makes sense that Jennifer Salt is now a screenwriter. The first act of her career was as an actress working with Robert Altman, Brian de Palma and Woody Allen. Her second act includes writing on Ni...

1 Sep 201029min

From the three Austin Powers movies to the two Focker films, Jay Roach has made some definite left turns. His newest, Dinner for Schmucks, is a departure that still lines up...

25 Aug 201029min

Actress Patricia Clarkson (The Station Agent, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) moves from impulsive characters -- like her roles in High Art and Whatever Works, to thoughtful ones -- like her role in the ...

18 Aug 201029min

Many of us think we’ve first met Steve Carell (Little Miss Sunshine, The Forty Year Old Virgin) when he was a correspondent on The Daily Show. Many of us know him from The Office. But he’s made a big...

11 Aug 201029min

After Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, writer-director Edgar Wright turns to the graphic novel Scott Pilgrim vs the World for his first adaptation. Find out how he makes it his own.

4 Aug 201029min

Documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker (Devil's Playground, Blindsight) has made films in improbable worlds: Amish teenagers, blind mountaineers, and, with Countdown to Zero, the nuclear arms issue. Walk...

28 Jul 201029min