The Treatment

This year, director Ridley Scott celebrates 30 years of filmmaking, a career that includes Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator and his newest, American Gangster. Past, present and future.

14 Nov 200729min

Dan in Real Life is not only a family comedy, it's a comedy about family. Writer-director Peter Hedges (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, About a Boy screenplay; Pieces of April writer/director) talks abou...

7 Nov 20071min

Not many actors get to show the range that Casey Affleck (Ocean's Thirteen, Good Will Hunting) unveils in two very different films: an elegiac western and a dour urban tale. He reflects on traveling t...

31 Okt 200729min

Director Shekhar Kapur (Bandit Queen, The Four Feathers) has mastered bringing flesh and blood to the epic film.  The story he began with Elizabeth in 1998 continues with Elizabeth: The Golden Age. He...

24 Okt 200729min

The pot-dealer comedy Weeds brings humor, drama and detail to a genre -- the sitcom -- in need of weeding. Jenji Kohan (Gilmore Girls, Sex and the City, Will & Grace), its creator and executive produc...

17 Okt 200729min

Not only has screenwriter Tony Gilroy (The Devil's Advocate, Dolores Claiborne) had quite a career, but quite a year as well. He adapted the Bourne books, including Ultimatum. Now he makes his directo...

10 Okt 200729min

Esquire magazine art director, part of a legendary screenwriting partnership and, finally, writing and directing on his own, Robert Benton has seen many sides of the film business. He takes us from Bo...

3 Okt 200729min

Family, secrets, money and guilt. Watchwords found in the plays of Jon Robin Baitz -- and also seen in his show, Brothers and Sisters, the first show he created for network TV. He talks about moving f...

26 Sep 200729min