The Treatment

The Daytrippers, Superbad, Adventureland. Director Greg Mottola's films are about literal and metaphorical journeys. His newest, Paul, is a bit about both...

Not many people can claim credits from acting, to writing the animated film Up, to writing and directing The Station Agent and The Visitor. Tom McCarthy is just that guy. His newest film is Win Win.

An actor, a talk show host...Joel McHale was first and foremost a comedian, as his work on the show Community shows. 

Laurence Fishburne has won an Emmy, Tony and been nominated for an Oscar. He moves from film to TV to the stage for these. He talks of transitions and playing Thurgood Marshall, both on stage and in the HBO filmed version.

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.