The Treatment

WEB EXCLUSIVE: An editor is as important a component of a movie as the director. They often serve the function of sounding board and collaborator. Sally Menke was just that person... 

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Joel McHale, star of Community and host of The Soup, talks to Elvis Mitchell about being host of this year's Spirit Awards...

Despite the wide expanse of his films, from drama to goofball comedy, writer-director Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin, The Doom Generation, Smiley Face, Nowhere, The Living End) set out to do something different with his newest, Kaboom. He discusses breaking with his tradition.

As part of the celebrations for Black History Month, Elvis hosts Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, to talk about the book, Harlem: A Century in Images, which was produced in association with the Studio Museum. Golden, who was one of the subjects interviewed on Elvis' documentary, The Black List, wrote the introduction to the book.

Elvis hosts director Derek Cianfrance (Brother Tied, Black and White: A Portrait of Sean Combs, Run D.M.C and Jam Master J: The Last Interview) to talk about his latest film, Blue Valentine, starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, for which she has received an Academy Award nomination.

From comedy to action drama, director David O. Russell (Flirting with Disaster, Spanking the Monkey) finds a way to make family the center of his films. In The Fighter he ads boxing to the mix.

Director Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Witness, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Dead Poets Society, Gallipoli) is a reader. Many of his films come from books, such as Mosquito Coast, Master and Commander and his newest, The Way Back. But he circles before committing to the material.  

Sundance Director of Programming Trevor Groth is a mainstay on the American independent film scene. With an eye outside the mainstream, he's brought his sensibility to Park City. He discusses the state of independent film with Elvis.

Finding the drama in real-life figures. Documentary director Alex Gibney Alex Gibney (Taxi to The Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in The Room) has done that with several films, including his newest, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer.

Actor Paul Giamatti (Sideways, American Splendor) has had the most varied career of any actor of his generation. Comedy to drama, Howard Stern's boss to President John Adams. He discusses that and his new film, Barney's Version.