KCRW's The Treatment Podcasts

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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:

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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