The Treatment

Not many actors get to show the range that Casey Affleck ( Ocean's Thirteen, Good Will Hunting ) unveils in two very different films: an elegiac western and a dour urban tale. He reflects on traveling those distances.

Director Shekhar Kapur ( Bandit Queen, The Four Feathers) has mastered bringing flesh and blood to the epic film.  The story he began with Elizabeth in 1998 continues with Elizabeth: The Golden Age . He discusses combining grandeur and intimacy. Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director-actor-producer Shekhar Kapur , Elizabeth ) whose most recent film is Elizabeth: The Golden Age , starring Cate Blanch...

The pot-dealer comedy Weeds brings humor, drama and detail to a genre -- the sitcom -- in need of weeding. Jenji Kohan ( Gilmore Girls, Sex and the City, Will & Grace ), its creator and executive producer, talks about keeping it alive.

Not only has screenwriter Tony Gilroy ( The Devil's Advocate, Dolores Claiborne ) had quite a career, but quite a year as well. He adapted the Bourne books, including Ultimatum . Now he makes his directorial debut with Michael Clayton , starring George Clooney. We look at his career so far.

Esquire magazine art director, part of a legendary screenwriting partnership and, finally, writing and directing on his own, Robert Benton has seen many sides of the film business. He takes us from Bonnie and Clyde , to Kramer versus Kramer , to his newest, Feast of Love .

Family, secrets, money and guilt. Watchwords found in the plays of Jon Robin Baitz -- and also seen in his show, Brothers and Sisters , the first show he created for network TV. He talks about moving from the stage to the small screen.

David McCallum, William Blake, Lou Rawls and jazz fusion--unlikely components, all a part of producer David Axelrod 's work. He's featured in a new concert DVD and he talks about it all.

If you've watched The Larry Sander's Show , you've seen the words "Special Thanks to Roy London." It's also name of a documentary on the acting coach. Its director, Christopher Monger ( Voice Over, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, Seeing Red ), and Garry Shandling discuss London and his legacy.

In this web-only edition of The Treatment , Elvis Mitchell interviews Irish director Neil Jordan during the Toronto International Film Festival  about his latest movie The Brave One ,  starring Jodie Foster.

I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With is the directorial debut of Jeff Garlin , creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David. He's an actor and stand-up comedian as well as a writer and director ( Mad about You, Daddy Day Care ). How does he define himself primarily?

From Clint Eastwood and Fritz Lang to Alfred Hitchcock and George Cuckor, Patrick McGilligan has written biographies of known studio figures. With his new book, Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only , he turns to an African American figure who pioneered independent filmmaking.

Take a high school debater with a stutter. Add a fast-talking girl disguising her insecurities. Throw in a first-time fiction director. The result is Rocket Science, writer-director Jeffrey Blitz 's second film. His first was the documentary, Spellbound.

Man versus machine versus man and the way pop culture defines them. Director Seth Gordon on his first feature-length documentary, The King of Kong .

The Simpsons Movie .  What sounds like a joke is a dream-come-true for many of us. Simpsons movie director David Silverman ( Monsters Inc, The Road to El Dorado ) talks about that journey to the big screen from your TV. Elvis Mitchell hosts animator–director David Silverman whose new film is The Simpsons Movie .

Writer-director-producer Paul Greengrass ( Bloody Sunday, United 93, The Bourne Supremacy ) whose latest film is The Bourne Ultimatum .

Elvis Mitchell hosts writer–director-producer John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, Stakeout, Heroes, Wargames, Crossing Jordan), who talks about his book I'll Be in My Trailer: The Creative Wars Between Directors and Actors.

Tension and home play a key part in the work of director Danny Boyle . From Trainspotting, Shallow Grave and 28 Days Later to his latest, Sunshine , he discusses the connections.

Seventies DJ Ralph "Petey" Greene was an old-school rapper with a truth-telling style. Don Cheadle brings him to life in the film Talk to Me .  The director, Kasi Lemmons ( Eve's Bayou ), drops by to put the spotlight on radio on film.

Director Brad Bird ( The Iron Giant, The Incredibles ) uses animation as a format to tell stories of emotional intimacy.  His lates film for Disney/Pixar is Ratatouille .

Actor Adrian Grenier ( The Devil Wea rs Prada ) is best known for the breezy, open movie star he plays on Entourage. In his documentary, Shot in the Dark , he opens his life -- and his search for his father, the teacher John Dunbar -- to the cameras.

Elvis Mitchell hosts director-writer-producer-actor  Eli Roth ( Cabin Fever, Hostel, Grindhouse ), whose latest film is Hostel: Part II .

Pettiness and self-absorption…now, that’s the stuff of comedy.   At least it is for writer-director Judd Apatow , as he showed in The 40-Year Old Virgin and his newest, Knocked Up .

Wim Wenders, Adam Egoyan, Michael Winterbottom and Doug Lyman are but a few of the directors Sarah Polley ( The Sweet Hereafter, E xotica, The Secret Life of Words ) has worked with. Now, with her directorial feature-film debut, Away from Her , she joins them. We hear about life for her from the other side of the camera.

Elvis Mitchell hosts award winning producer Robert Greenblatt ( Six Feet Under ) to talk about his current role as President of Entertainment at Showtime Networks.  

Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director Hilary Brougher ( The Sticky Fingers of Time ) whose new film is the controversial, Sundance-lauded Stephanie Daley , starring Tilda Swinton and Timothy Hutton, with an outstanding performance from newcomer Amber Tamblyn in the lead role.