The Treatment

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 adaptation of Colmac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, is a high-octane version of that. Start your engines!

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.

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 are also prey.Note: This show will not be broadcast on 89.9 FM due to special holiday programming but it will be available online.

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 with Redacted, a look at US involvement in Iraq. He'll discuss the court of public opinion.

Elvis Mitchell hosts  writer-director Julien Temple (Vigo, The Great Rock n Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners, Glastonbury) whose new film is Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten.

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.

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 about noise and quiet that define family.

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 those distances.

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 discusses combining grandeur and intimacy.Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director-actor-producer Shekhar Kapur , Elizabeth) whose most recent film is Elizabeth: The Golden Age, starring Cate Blanchett.

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 producer, talks about keeping it alive.