The Treatment

Composer John Frizzell's score have covered a wide and deep expanse, from the excentricity of Office Space to the large-scale registers of Alien Resurrection.  He talks about The Reaping, and bringing...

11 Apr 200729min

Since creating El Mariachi, writer, director, cinematographer and composer Robert Rodriguez has done it his way with Spy Kids, Sin City and, his newest, Planet Terror. It's part of the Grindhouse doub...

4 Apr 200729min

Writer-director Quentin Tarantino works when he wants to on what he wants. Reserve Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, the Kill Bill films and, now, his newest part of a double bill, Death Proof.

28 Mar 200729min

Chris Rock's first film as actor and director, Head of State, was a comedy about a black presidential candidate.  His newest, I Think I Love My Wife, is, for him, even more political, a romantic comed...

21 Mar 200729min

Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy (American Hollow) has melded her curiosity to subjects of social injustice.  Her new documentary, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, took on different shadings as she learned.

14 Mar 200729min

The TV series Lost has changed television.  But has it lost its way? We ask executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.

7 Mar 200729min

In 1975, a comedy series connected to the politics and pop culture of young people, NBC's Saturday Night Live debuted.  Its first season is now on DVD.  Anne Beatts, one of a handful of women writers ...

28 Feb 200729min

Writer Gay Talese's fame as a journalist began with his fine profiles for Esquire and continued with non-fiction books such as Honor Thy Father and Thy Neighbor's Wife.  With his new book, A Writer's ...

21 Feb 200729min