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Car buyers today continue to face fewer choices and much higher prices — and cheap vehicles are especially hard to find. It's not just that there are fewer cars; the ones being made are fancier, too.

William Friedkin, director of The French Connection, is now at the helm of a different production: opera. He explains what Puccini and the Marx Brothers have in common, and reflects on that legendary chase scene.

Two new films try something different to find audiences: Idlewild is the musical brainchild of OutKast members Andre 3000 (Andre Benjamin) and Big Boi (Antwan Patton). How to Eat Friend Worms is a family drama based on the popular children's book.

Filmmaker Kirby Dick's new documentary, This Film is Not Yet Rated, peers into the secretive world of the Motion Picture Association of America's film ratings system. MPAA board members are anonymous, deliberations are private, and standards are seemingly arbitrary.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews The Departed, the new Martin Scorsese film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, and Jack Nicholson.

In the new film Little Miss Sunshine, Toni Collette, Steve Carrell, and Greg Kinnear form the nucleus of a hilariously dysfunctional family. NPR's Bob Mondello says family values have rarely been so easy to endorse in a comedy -- but it's definitely not for the kiddies.

Miami Vice, the '80s TV sensation starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two vice squad detectives, has been given a makeover by its former executive producer. Michael Mann directs an updated version for the screen, starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. Our film critic has a review.

A bunch of friends from high school form a rock band, united by the dream of getting heard -- and against long odds, it happens. But then comes the rock 'n' roll nightmare: After a first flash of exposure, the band spends the next few years trying to replicate its success. This could have happened to the Walkmen, which formed when most of its members were in high school, at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. A Hundred Miles Off, the third Walkmen CD, came out recently.

Two new documentaries are out about the Iraq war: The Ground Truth and My Country, My Country. My Country shows what the war has been like for Iraqis, while Ground Truth concentrates on the personal traumas U.S. soldiers have to deal with when they return home. Both movies offer compelling views of the costs of war.

On the Left Bank of the River Seine, directly across from the Louvre museum, a crowded little shop has provided supplies to artists for more than 100 years. Cezanne bought oil paints there. Picasso liked their gray pastels. The shop, Sennelier, is a Paris repository of art history and commerce.