The Treatment

From Brother's Keeper to Some Kind of Monster , director Joe Berlinger has made documentaries on communities in crisis. He goes to the Ecuadorian Amazon for his latest, Crude .

Laura Jacobs has a luminous eye for detail, social and physical. It can be glimpsed in her writings on fashion and culture or in her novels, such as her newest, The Bird Catcher .

Writer-director Jane Campion ( In the Cut, Holy Smoke ) has felt the passion and complications left in its wake, from The Piano to her newest, Bright Star . She talks to Elvis about the fight between heart and head.  

A war in the Middle East may break out. What's more important than saving lives? Saving face, as seen in director Armando Iannucci 's briliant satire, In the Loop , which derives from his BBC series, The Thick of It .  

The moving and crafty documentary, The English Surgeon , deals with the life and works of Dr. Henry Marsh. Its director, Geoffrey Smith (T he Children of Helen House, Your Life in Their Hands ), talks about his unique approach and his subject.

You know Bobcat Goldthwait  as the assaultively loud comic not concerned with fire safety. As a writer-director ( Windy City Heat, Sleeping Dogs Lie ) , he's focused on films dealing with discomfort, like his newest, World's Greatest Dad .

Jean-Luc Godard once said all you need to make a film is a girl and a gun. In Inglourious Basterds , Quentin Tarantino ( Pulp Fiction; Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2' Reservoir Dogs ) adds Winston Churchill, Adolph Hitler and a squad of Nazi-scalping GI's. (Rebroadcast from August 19.)

Elvis hosts writer-producer-director Judd Apatow ( Knocked Up, The 40 Year Old Virgin ) whose latest film is Funny People , starring Seth Rogen and Adam Sandler.

Writer Nancy Miller ( The Closer, CSI: Miami ) sets her shows outside the LA-New York universe and gives them a deeper view of character. Saving Grace , set in Oklahoma, is about a copy bedeviled by an angel.

Writer-director Lynn Shelton 's ( My Effortless Brilliance, We Go Way Back ) new film, Humpday , asks several questions...  

Actor Isiah Whitlock, Jr. has worked with talents from David Mamet to Spike Lee to Dave Chappelle. On HBO's The Wire , his portrayal of Senator Clay Davis was a study in compromise. He now stars in  Farragut North at the Geffen Playhouse.

From Anthrax to Poison, Guns and Roses to Metalica, these are just a few groups inspired by Anvil, the most influencial band you've never heard of. Its story's in Sacha Gervasi 's film, Anvil: The Story of Anvil.

As a musician, Youssou N'Dour has always been about faith. In the documentary I Bring What I Love , director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ( A Normal Life ) follows him on the journey committed to that goal.

From Utah farm boy, to pioneering film editor, to director of some of the 70's and 80's greatest films -- such as Shampoo and Being There , it's all part of Being Hal Ashby , the life chronicle by Nick Dawson .

After years as a choreographer, Anne Fletcher moved into directing with Step Up and 27 Dresses . Her newest, The Proposal , is a comedy about dancing around the truth.

Director Todd Phillips ( Starsky & Hutch, School for Scoundrels, All The King's Men ) has a gift for finding guys who have to show the worst side of themselves. He’s revealed them both in documentaries and fiction films, like his newest The Hangover .  

For television fans, the phrase "not a routine expedition" ranks up there with "a three-hour tour." Director Brad Silberling ( Casper, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events ) brings TV fans the classic Land of the Lost to the big screen -- with extra cheese.

Elvis hosts writer-director Pete Docter ( Monsters, Inc, Toy Story, Wall-e ) to talk about his latest film, Up , the first Pixar movie to be projected in 3-D  as well as being the first ever animated feature film to be screened as the opening night film at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Troma Studios co-founder Lloyd Kaufman ( The Toxic Avenger , Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead) has been about do-it-yourself. His new book, Direct Your Own Damn Movie , is the same thing.

Russell Brand ( Forgetting Sarah Marshall ) has established his own separate wing to the garden of earthly delights...

Elvis hosts writer-director Rian Johnson ( Brick ) whose new film is The Brothers Bloom , starring Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo.

After a tenure at Vanity Fair, Matt Tyrnauer has turned to making documentaries. The subject is the couturier, Valentino, at the end of his career but not his powers...

From the scripts for The Gambler and Bugsy to his own films as a director, James Toback has made intensely personal work. His documentary, Tyson , is his own take on the boxer...

The past twelve months have seen slew of films on perversions of justice. American Violet brings that material to a smaller, more intimate scale. Director Tim Disney ( Blessed Art Thou )  uses real life details to give his drama bite.

Turner Award-winner Steve McQueen’s directorial debut, "Hunger," is based on the 1981 IRA hunger strike in Northern Ireland's infamous Maze prison.