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A "treatment," in Hollywood parlance, is a concise overview of a screenplay. On THE TREATMENT, film critic Elvis Mitchell turns the tables and gives the "treatment" to some of the most influential and innovative forces creating movies and popular art and Primary Format : Arts Language : English Also Listed as: City : Santa Monica State/Province : CA Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of KCRW's The Treatment Podcasts Methings.com listings of KCRW's The Treatment Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Jason Reitman What's easier, directing your own screen play or someone else's? AfterJuno,Jason Reitman(Thank You for Smoking) has returned to directing his own, the adaptation ofUp in the Air. He discusses what's smoother sailing.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Viggo Mortensen He's a poet, a musician, a painter and a photographer. But we knowViggo 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 fromLord of the Rings. Mortensen, a man who's moved between two worlds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wes Anderson Martin Scorsese once calledWes 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 onThe Treatment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Werner Herzog 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 onBad Lieutenant. He talks about his own approach to film and life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Weitz How do you make a sequel to one of the most talked-about romances of all time? If you'reChris Weitz(American Pie, About a Boy, The Golden Compass) makingNew Moon, you stick to the text. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lee Daniels The moviePreciousis the story of an overweight and abused Harlemsingle mother fighting to survive. The film came out of the SundanceFilm Festival this year with the Audience and Grand Jury prizes, aswell as Oprah Winfrey as a supporter. DirectorLee Daniels(Shadowboxer, The Woodsman, Monster's Ball) talks usthrough his journey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rupert Isaacson The lives of families with autistic children are exhausting, harrowing and, finally, maybe even hopeful. The family ofRupert Isaacsonis featured in the new documentary,The Horse Boy. Isaacson, a journalist, also wrote a book by the same name. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matthew Weiner Wen it started three seasons ago,Mad Menwas a show not good enough for HBO. Now the rest of TV struggles to keep up with it.  CreatorMatthew Weiner(The Sopranos, Becker) discusses keeping the show ahead of the curves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jason Schwartzman He's worked with Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola and Judd Apatow on the big screen. NowJason Schwartzman(Rushmore, Funny People, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr.Fox) comes to the small screen as a big-hearted, broken hearted private eye. The show isBored to Death? but you won't be! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Rock Chris Rockis known for his potent and direct stand-up comedy. As a filmmaker he?sturned that same unblinking eye on himself and black culture. His newest film, the documentaryGood Hair, examines the profitable and self-denying world of black-hair culture.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nicolas Winding Refn Elvis hosts Danishwriter-directorNicolas Winding Refn(Pusher, Fear X) to talk about his new film,Bronson. The film is loosely based on the life of Charles Bronson, considered to be Britain's most violent criminal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Hicks Shine, Snow Falling on Cedars, No Reservations? DirectorScott Hicksis attracted to source material. His newest,The Boys Are Back, is another film of a book, bringing emotional honesty to the truth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Berlinger FromBrother's KeepertoSome Kind of Monster, directorJoe Berlingerhas made documentaries on communities in crisis. He goes to the Ecuadorian Amazon for his latest,Crude. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Laura Jacobs Laura Jacobshas a luminous eye for detail, social and physical.It can be glimpsed in her writings on fashion and culture or in hernovels, such as her newest,The Bird Catcher. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jane Campion Writer-directorJane Campion(In the Cut, Holy Smoke) has felt the passion and complications left in its wake, fromThe Pianoto her newest,Bright Star. She talks to Elvis about the fight between heart and head.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Armando Iannucci A war in the Middle East may break out. What's more important than saving lives? Saving face, as seen in directorArmando Iannucci's briliant satire,In the Loop, which derives from his BBC series,The Thick of It.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geoffrey Smith Elvis hosts writer/directorGeoffrey Smith(The Children of Helen House, Your Life in Their Hands)  to talk about his latest documentary feature film,The English Surgeon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bobcat Goldthwait You knowBobcat 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quentin Tarantino Jean-Luc Godard once said all you need to make a film is a girl and a gun. InInglourious 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.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judd Apatow Elvis hosts writer-producer-directorJudd Apatow(Knocked Up, The 40 Year Old Virgin) whose latest film isFunny People, starring Seth Rogen and Adam Sandler. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nancy Miller WriterNancy 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lynn Shelton Writer-directorLynn Shelton's (My Effortless Brilliance, We Go Way Back) new film,Humpday, asks several questions...  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Isiah Whitlock, Jr. ActorIsiah Whitlock, Jr.has worked with talents from David Mamet toSpike Lee to Dave Chappelle. On HBO'sThe Wire, his portrayal ofSenator Clay Davis was a study in compromise. He now stars in Farragut Northat the Geffen Playhouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sacha Gervasi 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 inSacha Gervasi's film,Anvil: The Story of Anvil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chai Vasarhelyi As a musician, Youssou N'Dour has always been about faith. In the documentaryI Bring What I Love, directorElizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi(A Normal Life) follows him on the journey committed to that goal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nick Dawson From Utah farm boy, to pioneering film editor, to director of some of the 70's and 80's greatest films -- such asShampooandBeing There, it's all part ofBeing Hal Ashby, the life chronicle byNick Dawson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Russell Brand Russell Brand(Forgetting Sarah Marshall) has established his own separate wing to the garden of earthly delights... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rian Johnson Elvis hosts writer-directorRian Johnson(Brick) whose new film isThe Brothers Bloom, starring Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Tyrnauer After a tenure at Vanity Fair,Matt Tyrnauerhas turned to making documentaries. The subject is the couturier, Valentino, at the end of his career but not his powers... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Toback From the scripts forThe GamblerandBugsyto his ownfilms as a director,James Tobackhas made intensely personal work. Hisdocumentary,Tyson, is his own take on the boxer... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Disney The past twelve months have seen slew of films on perversions of justice.American Violetbrings that material to a smaller, more intimate scale. DirectorTim Disney(Blessed Art Thou)  uses real life details to give his drama bite. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve McQueen Daring and assaultive, the work of artistSteve McQueenforces us to ask questions about the way we inhabit space. The Turner Award-winner has moved into feature films with his directorial debut,Hunger, based on the 1981 IRA hunger strike in NorthernIreland's infamous Maze prison.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Hamburg Comedy about shifting definitions of masculinity is where writer-directorJohn Hamburg(Zoolander, Safe Men, Meet the Fockers)  finds laughs. His newest film isI Love You, Man, starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian De Palma Should a director court controversy? If you're Brian De Palmayou might answer that with a question.How can you not? The man who madeCarrie, Dressed to Kill, The UntouchablesandScarfaceis back withRedacted, a look at US involvement in Iraq. He'll discuss the court of public opinion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ellen Kuras Cinematographer turned filmmaker,Ellen Kuras(Summer of Sam, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan)  dedicated years of her life to making the documentary,The Betrayal, a look at a family devastated by abandonment... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Gilroy A world where the protagonist and the viewer doesn't know where he stands. From theBournefilms, toMichael Claytonand the new film,Duplicity. It's what writer-directorTony Gilroy does. More duplicity from the horse's mouth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jody Hill Elvis hosts writer-directorJody Hill(The Foot Fist Way) whose latest work is the HBO TV seriesEastbound and Down. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diablo Cody From the blogosphere to an Oscar (Juno) to Showtime. It’s quite a career for screenwriterDiablo Cody. Her series,The United States of Tara, looks at multiple personalities. She just might know something about that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Gray Elvis hosts writer-directorJames Gray(The Yards, We Own the Night, Little Odessa) whose latest film isTwo Lovers, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow and Isabella Rossellini. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Reid and Tom Dreesen As America's only black-and-white comedy team,Tim ReidandTom Dreesenwrote the book on comedy. Now they've written a book... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barry Jenkins Medicine for Melancholy, the debut film from writer-directorBarry Jenkins, takes a dreamy contemplative look at a young AfricanAmerican couple in San Francisco. It's a black art film when art filmsare in trouble. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Danny Boyle DirectorDanny Boyle(Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Millions) hasmoved from suspense film to post-punk despair, to zombies, to thecenter of the sun. He combines all that forSlumdog Millionaireandadds a musical number to the mix. It's a Bollywood happy ending.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Fincher In just six films, directorDavid Fincher(Seven, Panic Room, Fight Club) has established themes and textures. So much so that his latest,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, both conforms and contradicts that work.Note:This show first aired January 7 and is being repeated in recognition ofit's having received thirteen Academy Award nominations, including BestPicture and Best Director. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Fincher In just six films, directorDavid Fincher(Seven, Panic Room, Fight Club) has established themes and textures. So much so that his latest,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, both conforms and contradicts that work.Note:This show first aired January 7 and is being repeated in recognition ofit's having received thirteen Academy Award nominations, including BestPicture and Best Director. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sally Hawkins ActressSally Hawkinshas had quite a year, stemming from her third collaboration with writer-director Mike Leigh.Happy-Go-Luckyis bright-eyed comedy-drama that's won her audiences and accolades. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sally Hawkins ActressSally Hawkinshas had quite a year, stemming from her third collaboration with writer-director Mike Leigh.Happy-Go-Luckyis bright-eyed comedy-drama that's won her audiences and accolades. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ed Zwick DirectorEdward Zwickhas made films (The Siege, Glory, Blood Diamond) about social causes, but also about social responsibility. His newest,Defiance, examines that as deeply as any of his others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ed Zwick DirectorEdward Zwickhas made films (The Siege, Glory, Blood Diamond) about social causes, but also about social responsibility. His newest,Defiance, examines that as deeply as any of his others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven Soderbergh In the 20 years sinceSex, Lies and Videotape, directorSteven Soderbergh(Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich, Oceans Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen) has made 20 films. His newest, the epicChe, is both formalist and intimate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven Soderbergh In the 20 years sinceSex, Lies and Videotape, directorSteven Soderbergh(Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich, Oceans Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen) has made 20 films. His newest, the epicChe, is both formalist and intimate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven Soderbergh In the 20 years sinceSex, Lies and Videotape, directorSteven Soderbergh(Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich, Oceans Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen) has made 20 films. His newest, the epicChe, is both formalist and intimate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Fincher In just six films, directorDavid Fincher(Seven, Panic Room, Fight Club) has established themes and textures. So much so that his latest,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, both conforms and contradicts that work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Fincher In just six films, directorDavid Fincher(Seven, Panic Room, Fight Club) has established themes and textures. So much so that his latest,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, both conforms and contradicts that work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Fincher In just six films, directorDavid Fincher(Seven, Panic Room, Fight Club) has established themes and textures. So much so that his latest,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, both conforms and contradicts that work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jenny Lumet Elvis Mitchell hosts actress-teacher-writerJenny Lumet, whose screenplayRachel Getting Marriedhas been made into a critically acclaimed film, starring Anne Hathaway and directed by Jonathan Demme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jenny Lumet Elvis Mitchell hosts actress-teacher-writerJenny Lumet, whose screenplayRachel Getting Marriedhas been made into a critically acclaimed film, starring Anne Hathaway and directed by Jonathan Demme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jenny Lumet Elvis Mitchell hosts actress-teacher-writerJenny Lumet, whose screenplayRachel Getting Marriedhas been made into a critically acclaimed film, starring Anne Hathaway and directed by Jonathan Demme. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darren Aronofsky DirectorDarren Aronofskyis know for portraying anguish in his films (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain) with dazzling stylistic flourish. WithThe Wrestler, the tale unfolds with a stark minimalism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darren Aronofsky DirectorDarren Aronofskyis know for portraying anguish in his films (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain) with dazzling stylistic flourish. WithThe Wrestler, the tale unfolds with a stark minimalism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darren Aronofsky DirectorDarren Aronofskyis know for portraying anguish in his films (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain) with dazzling stylistic flourish. WithThe Wrestler, the tale unfolds with a stark minimalism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ron Howard Frost/Nixon, from directorRon Howard(Happy Days,Arrested Development, Apollo 13, A Dangerous Mind) is the the interview as blood sport, with a fallen president and a desperate talk-show host going toe to toe... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ron Howard Frost/Nixon, from directorRon Howard(Happy Days,Arrested Development, Apollo 13, A Dangerous Mind) is the the interview as blood sport, with a fallen president and a desperate talk-show host going toe to toe... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Jenkins You may know actorRichard Jenkinsin his role as the dead father inSix Feet Under, or his films with the Coen Brothers, Mike Nichols of the Farley Brothers. Now the cosmic character actor stars inThe Visitor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Jenkins You may know actorRichard Jenkinsin his role as the dead father inSix Feet Under, or his films with the Coen Brothers, Mike Nichols of the Farley Brothers. Now the cosmic character actor stars inThe Visitor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc Forster There's probably no director working who's made films focusing on a characters with a compact with loneliness the way thatMarc Forsterhas. (Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball, The Kite Runner) He's brought James Bond into that world in which Bond has to figure out his own compact with loneliness. The new bond film isQuantum of Solace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc Forster There's probably no director working who's made films focusing on a characters with a compact with loneliness the way thatMarc Forsterhas. (Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball, The Kite Runner) He's brought James Bond into that world in which Bond has to figure out his own compact with loneliness. The new bond film isQuantum of Solace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Kring For writer-producerTim Kring(Chicago Hope, Crossing Jordan), his seriesHeroeswas a way to bring a full meal to audiences... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Kring For writer-producerTim Kring(Chicago Hope, Crossing Jordan), his seriesHeroeswas a way to bring a full meal to audiences... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julia Louis-Dreyfus ThoughSeinfeldandThe New Adventures of Old Christineare different shows, both took times to catch on.Julia Jouis-Dreyfustalks about the move from cult hit to the mainstream. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julia Louis-Dreyfus ThoughSeinfeldandThe New Adventures of Old Christineare different shows, both took times to catch on.Julia Jouis-Dreyfustalks about the move from cult hit to the mainstream. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lance Hammer Low-key photorealism, well-chosen non-actors and an achingly heart-felt drama played out in the Mississippi Delta. That'sBallast, the feature film directing debut of Lance Hammer.Elvis Mitchell hosts writer/director/producer/editorLance Hammer, whose directorial feature debut,Ballast,has been the recipient of several film festival awards, including theDirecting Award and Cinematography Award at the 2008 Sundance FilmFestival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lance Hammer Low-key photorealism, well-chosen non-actors and an achingly heart-felt drama played out in the Mississippi Delta. That'sBallast, the feature film directing debut of Lance Hammer.Elvis Mitchell hosts writer/director/producer/editorLance Hammer, whose directorial feature debut,Ballast,has been the recipient of several film festival awards, including theDirecting Award and Cinematography Award at the 2008 Sundance FilmFestival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Malkovich WEB EXCLUSIVE!ActorJohn Malkovich(The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Being John Malkovich, The Sheltering Sky)John MalKovich has to be engaged, and when he is, it shows. Whether it’s in films by Spielberg, Bertolucci, Eastwood (Changling), orBurn after Readingby the Coen Brothers. He talks about being turned on– and off.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stefan Forbes Before the Swift Boat Veterans and the dirty tricks of Karl Rove, LeeAtwater treated political ads as trailers for horror films. DirectorStefan Forbes' new documentary,Boogie Man, examines Atwater and the wages of fear. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven Bochco No living writer/director has influenced TV in the way thatSteven Bochcohas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Burton Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director Tim Burton (Beetle Juice, Batman, Big Fish), discussing his two films from last year, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Academy Award-nominated animated feature Corpse Bride. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Burton Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director Tim Burton (Beetle Juice, Batman, Big Fish), discussing his two films from last year, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Academy Award-nominated animated feature Corpse Bride. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Mangold From Heavy to Cop Land to Kate and Leopold, writer-driector James Mangold has showed a wide interest in film. His newest, the Johnny Cash-June Carter bio-pic,Walk the Line, furthers the expanse of his filmography. He talks about how these opposites attracted him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Mangold From Heavy to Cop Land to Kate and Leopold, writer-driector James Mangold has showed a wide interest in film. His newest, the Johnny Cash-June Carter bio-pic, Walk the Line, furthers the expanse of his filmography. He talks about how these opposites attracted him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fernando Meirelles Elvis Mitchell hosts director Fernando Meirelles (City of God) whose recent film The Constant Gardener is available on DVD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fernando Meirelles Spontaneity and substance. This contradictory approach worked for director Fernando Meirelles in City of God, and he uses it again for the more structured film, The Constant Gardener. It's flexibility as art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rob Zombie Elvis Mitchell hosts acclaimed musician and writer-director Rob Zombie, whose new film,The Devil-s Rejects, is the gritty, violent follow up to his horror hit, House of 1000 Corpses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tommy Lee Jones Tommy Lee Jones is known for his acerbic witty performances for directors from Michael Apted to Ron Howard. In his directorial debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, he deals with community and warmth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tommy Lee Jones Tommy Lee Jones is known for his acerbic witty performances for directors from Michael Apted to Ron Howard. In his directorial debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, he deals with community and warmth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lori Silverbush and Michael Skolnik The new melodrama On the Outs doesn't resort to car chases or gun battles to put across its story of three young women trapped in urban New Jersey. Directors Lori Silverbush and Michael Skolnik know enough to trust day-to-day survival for their story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lori Silverbush and Michael Skolnik The new melodrama On the Outs doesn't resort to car chases or gun battles to put across its story of three young women trapped in urban New Jersey. Directors Lori Silverbush and Michael Skolnik know enough to trust day-to-day survival for their story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Shepard In the dark comic thriller, The Matador, writer-director Richard Shepard uses British crime films, Graham Greene, and his star, Pierce Brosnan, as both context and subtext. He'll talk about giving a hit man a soul. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Shepard Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director Richard Shepard, whose films include The Linguini Incident and his new release The Matador. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Faber and Bob Fisher Elvis Mitchell hosts writers Steve Faber and Bob Fisher, whose hit comedy Wedding Crashers is out now on DVD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Faber and Bob Fisher The Wedding Crashers is a wild risqu-- comedy about players who are finally played. Its authors, Steve Faber and Bob Fisher, are also very clear about its political commentary, too. It's all about subversion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Steinberg Elvis Mitchell hosts Emmy Award-winning comedian-writer-director David Steinberg, whose new talk show on TV Land, Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg, features guests Larry David, Mike Myers, Martin Short and many others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Steinberg What's missing from talk shows? Well... talk. That's what inspired comedian David Steinberg to host Sit-Down Comedy on TV Land. Conversations with comedians. He discusses his motivations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rick Moranis Elvis Mitchell hosts comic actor-country singer Rick Moranis (SCTV, Ghost Busters, Parenthood, Honey I Shrunk the Kids) whose new Grammy-nominated album is The Agoraphobic Cowboy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rick Moranis Elvis Mitchell hosts comic actor-country singer Rick Moranis (SCTV, Ghost Busters, Parenthood, Honey I Shrunk the Kids) whose new Grammy-nominated album is The Agoraphobic Cowboy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ron Howard Elvis Mitchell hosts Academy-Award winning director-actor Ron Howard (Splash, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind and many many others) whose most recent film,Cinderella Man, is now available on DVD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Guralnick Elvis Mitchell hosts Peter Guralnick, the preeminent writer on twentieth-century American popular music, whose new book is Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sarah Silverman Elvis Mitchell hosts stand-up comedian, actress, and writer Sarah Silverman whose new film Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic mixes her performance before a live audience with musical numbers and backstage intrigue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arie Posen In the unusually titled comedy dramaChumscrubber, director Arie Posen commits to contrasts: teens and adults, assurance v confusion, contentment versus alienation. It-s at least two different films and he guides us through both. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charles Dutton With his passing, August Wilson left the legacy of major cannon on African-American life with the stage, filled with power, pathos, and humor. Charles Dutton, who sees fame in two Wilson plays, discusses the writer and his writing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza Elvis Mitchell hosts comedy veteransThe Aristocratsis the world-s dirtiest joke, something comedians tell other comics. It-s also the subject of a documentary byPaul ProvenzaandPenn Jillette. It-s comedy, history ... and funny. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Feig Elvis Mitchell hosts Paul Feig, Emmy Award-winning creator of television'sFreaks And Geeks, whose autobiography isSuperstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year Virgin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jenji Kohan Elvis Mitchell hosts television writer-producer Jenji Kohan, who has createdWeeds, the new Showtime comedy series about a suburban mother turned marijuana dealer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ricky Jay Elvis Mitchell hosts master of illusion, sleight-of-hand expert, actor and author Ricky Jay, whose new book is Extraordinary Exhibitions: The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, the Whimsiphusicon&Death to the Savage Unitarians (Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Curtis Hanson Elvis Mitchell hosts Academy Award-winning writer-director Curtis Hanson (LA Confidential, Wonder Boys, 8 Mile) whose new film isIn Her Shoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniele Luppi Elvis Mitchell hosts musicianDaniele Luppi(whose new recordAn Italian Storyis a tribute to the sound of the La Dolce Vita era and the musicians of the Morricone spaghetti western), with a performance by Alessandro"The Whistler" Allesandroni. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc Eliot Elvis Mitchell hosts author and biographer Marc Eliot (Erin Brockovich: Take It from MeandWalt Disney: Hollywood-s Dark Prince) whose most recent book isCary Grant: A Biography. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hugh Laurie Elvis Mitchell hosts actor Hugh Laurie who is currently nominated for an Emmy Award as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Dr. Gregory House on Fox TV'sHouse, M.D. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barry Avrich Elvis Mitchell hosts filmmaker Barry Avrich whose new film isThe Last Mogul, a documentary about Hollywood power-broker Lew Wasserman, whose deal-making was as legendary as his temper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website