The Treatment

Conan O’Brien or Jay Leno? New York Times television writer Bill Carter (The Late Shift, Desperate Networks) covers a different kind of war reporting, talk show wars. His new book, The War for Late Night, is news from the front.

The documentary Marwencol is about a man finding himself after a tragedy. The film was a similar journey for Jeff Malmberg. Elvis hosts director and editor Jeff Malmberg to talk about his award-winning documentary Marwencol, which tells the extraordinary story of Mark Hogencamp. Having survived a horrific beating by five men near his hometown of Kingston, New York in 2000, Hogencamp's long road to recuperation became focused on art, specifically building a fictional Belgian town (Marwencol) in his backyard and populating it with figures from World War II using military figures and Barbie dolls.

The Amish, blind mountain climbers, fighting for nuclear disarmament... Director Lucy Walker's (Countdown to Zero, Devil’s Playground, Blindsight) new film, Waste Land, is about waste becoming art. It's drama and non-fiction.

Between them, actor Danny McBride and director Jody Hill have brought the 70's anti-hero to comedy, first with the indie film, The Foot Fist Way, and now, with Eastbound &  Down on HBO. It's awfully...funny.

Mad Men's creator Matthew Weiner discusses Midwestern manners, Carnal Knowledge and Jon Hamm.

With such films as The Puffy Chair and Cyrus, actress Katie Aselton has worked a lot in improvisation. With her new film, The Freebie, she also directs a film that doesn't rely a script.

The stark minimalism of Never Let Me Go might scare off most film directors. That very quality drew Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo; music videos, including Nine Inch Nails Closer & Hurt, Beck’s Devil’s Haircut) to the material. He talks about making loneliness visual.

Writer/director Sean Baker is best known for Greg the Bunny and Warren the Ape on TV. His feature film,  Prince of Broadway, is gritty and stark. It’s all more similar than you’d think.

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, The Savages, The Talented Mr Ripley, Magnolia) has worked with a dream list of directors: like Sidney Lumet, Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen Brothers and Mike Nichols. With Jack Goes Boating, the Oscar-winning director becomes one. Was it a dream come true?

The Australian musical Bran Nue Dae, starring Missy Higgins, Geoffrey Rush, Rocky McKenzie and Jessica Mauboy, happens to be a comedy of aborigines. It's the Mama Mia of race. Director Rachel Perkins (First Australians, Radiance, One Night the Moon) talks about her brand new take on the subject. .