The Treatment

For John Cooper, new director of the Sundance Film Festival, it's all about moving into the future and maintaining tradition. Something old, something new... We hear about how films are selected, get a preview of this year's fest, learn about the new ‘Next' category and what it's like to work with Robert Redford...

"Intimate" and "confessional" are not adjectives you'd expect to hear in a film about the Iraq war. Director Oren Moverman's The Messenger looks at the collateral damage on the home front...

Elvis speaks with fashion designer, writer-director-producer Tom Ford about his feature film debut, A Single Man, an adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's novel of the same name. The film has received rave reviews and recently garnered several Independent Spirit and Golden Globe nominations, two of those for lead actor Colin Firth.

What's easier, directing your own screen play or someone else's? After Juno, Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking) has returned to directing his own, the adaptation of Up in the Air. He discusses what's smoother sailing.  

He's a poet, a musician, a painter and a photographer. But we know Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises, The Lord of The Rings) best as an actor. The adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's book, The Road, is a long way from Lord of the Rings. Mortensen, a man who's moved between two worlds.

Martin Scorsese once called Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) his logical heir. Is it the way Anderson creates tension in the room or did Scorsese one day imagine Anderson at work in stop-action animation? The director of Fantastic Mr. Fox joins Elvis Mitchell on The Treatment.

From shorts to features, fiction films to documentaries, directing to acting, Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn) has completely immersed himself in film. His newest is his take on Bad Lieutenant. He talks about his own approach to film and life.

How do you make a sequel to one of the most talked-about romances of all time? If you're Chris Weitz (American Pie, About a Boy, The Golden Compass) making New Moon, you stick to the text.

"Precious," the story of an overweight and abused Harlem single mother fighting to survive, won this year's Sundance Film Festival’s Audience and Grand Jury prizes...

Wen it started three seasons ago, Mad Men was a show not good enough for HBO. Now the rest of TV struggles to keep up with it.  Creator Matthew Weiner (The Sopranos, Becker) discusses keeping the show ahead of the curves.