Maya Rudolph, the making of ‘Bull Durham,’ and Ethan Hawke on The Treat

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 double feature which he'll unspool for us.

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 Mars 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 comedy about the black middle class.  He'll see if he can get your vote.

21 Mars 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 Mars 200729min

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

7 Mars 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 on the original Saturday Night Live, drops in to talk about being a pioneer among a group of pioneers.

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 Life, he turns his eye on himself.

21 Feb 200729min

The book, Scenes from the City: Filmmaking in New York, is not only a sumptuous and evocative photo-history of New York filmmaking, it's a sharp and compelling look at city's cultural and social history through cinema.  Its editor, James Sanders (co-writer or the Emmy Award-winning PBS series New York: A Documentary Film and its companion volume, New York: An Illustrated History, as well as Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies), connects the dots, from Marlon Brando to Woody Allen.

14 Feb 200729min