Denzel Washington
After Malcolm X and The Hurricane, you'd think Denzel Washington had enough of real life. But The Great Debaters, his second film as director, shows why fact drew him back. It's life as drama.
16 Jan 200829min
Marc Forster
It's an unusual grouping of films for Marc Forster: Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball, Stranger than Fiction and his newest, The Kite Runner. And many of them deal with storytellers. It's narratives a...
9 Jan 200829min
Julian Schnabel
With Basquiat, Before Night Falls and his newest, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, artist and director Julian Schnabel turns film biography into art. He discusses separating fiction from fact.
2 Jan 200829min
Tamara Jenkins
Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director Tamara Jenkins (Slums of Beverly Hills) whose latest film is The Savages, starring Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
26 Des 200729min
Joel and Ethan Coen
Since 1984, writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen (Blood Simple, Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou?) have taken the chase and made some of best films of the past decade about it. Their newest, an adapta...
19 Des 200729min
Andrew Wagner
Family, the ties that bind and, sometimes, strangle. Writer-director Andrew Wagner's made this the subject of two movies, including his newest, Starting Out in the Evening.
12 Des 200729min
Craig Zobel
In writing and directing his first feature film, Great Wall of Sound, Craig Zobel drew from his real life and focuses the film on the south that few see. It's a low-budget comedy about predators who a...
5 Des 200729min
Brian De Palma
Should a director court controversy? If you're Brian De Palma you might answer that with a question.How can you not? The man who made Carrie, Dressed to Kill, The Untouchables and Scarface is back wi...
28 Nov 200729min
