 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 andPrimary Format :
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jason SchwartzmanHe'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 Laura JacobsLaura 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 Joe BerlingerFromBrother'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 Jane CampionWriter-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 IannucciA 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 Nick DawsonFrom 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 Chai VasarhelyiAs 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 Sacha GervasiFrom 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 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 Lynn SheltonWriter-directorLynn Shelton's (My Effortless Brilliance, We Go Way Back) new film,Humpday, asks several questions... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bobcat GoldthwaitYou 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 Geoffrey SmithElvis 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 Russell BrandRussell 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 James TobackFrom the scripts forThe GamblerandBugsyto his ownfilms as a director,James Tobackhas made intensely personal work. 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