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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 Also Listed as: Arts Entertainment Film Hollywood Movies NPR Public Radio City : Santa Monica State/Province : CA Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: Film | Public Radio | Movies | Radio | NPR | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of KCRW's The Treatment Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of KCRW's The Treatment Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of KCRW's The Treatment Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Anthony Minghella The late writer-director Anthony Minghella (Michael Clayton, Cold Mountain, The English Patient, Truly, Madly, Deeply) focused on characters trying to come to terms with themselves and found drama in the misperceptions in films both epic and intimate. We use this sad occasion to revisit his thoughtful interview on his last film, Breaking and Entering. (This show originally aired February 7, 2007.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charles Burnett He's one of America---s premier filmmakers and has devoted his career to bringing a nuanced portrayal of the African American experience to the screen. Writer-director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, My Brother's Wedding, American Family) describes what got him into the movies and how stereotypes is still a battle worth fighting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kimberly Peirce What a difference a decade makes. In the 1990's, director Kimberly Peirce brought Boys Don---t Cry to the big screen. Almost a decade later, she returns with Stop-Loss. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Harris What do Dr. Doolittle, The Graduate, Guess Who---s Coming to Dinner, Bonnie and Clyde and In the Heat of the Night all have in common. All play a prominent role in movie history, as Mark Harris (Entertainment Weekly) notes in his new book, Pictures at a Revolution. It's history with a surprise ending. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Lipton The book Inside Inside not only takes a behind-the-scenes look at the television show Inside the Actors' Studio, but at its creator and host, James Lipton. This time, it's questions for the interrogator! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brett Morgen As a filmmaker, director Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in The Picture) is attracted to real-life subjects about bigger-than-life figures. Chicago 10 is his biggest yet.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Poll You may know the name Jon Poll from his work as editor on Meet the Parents and two of the Austin Powers films. He's just directed his first film, Charlie Bartlett, starring Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey, Jr. and Hope Davis. He discusses being the guy that makes the cut and the guy who says, "Cut." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neil LaBute You might think it difficult to make fear, weakness bulling a career. Writer-director Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men, Nurse Betty) disagrees with you. He's proved it works in film, on stage and with the West Coast premiere of his new play, Some Girls.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nancy Oliver Yes, Lars and the Real Girl is about a man who falls for a sex doll. It's also about the women who help pull him out of his shell --- and a lot more. Screenwriter Nancy Oliver (Six Feet Under) talks about the work behind building the real girl. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jason Reitman In just two films, writer-director Jason Reitman (In God We Trust) has found comedy in the realm of personal responsibility. First, Thank You for Smoking and, now, Juno. For this Oscar nominee, the first and second times are the charm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Gilroy 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. NOTE: This encore presentation of The Treatment will not be heard live on KCRW as it will be pre-empted by special post-primary election coverage.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Thomas Anderson Elvis Mitchell hosts director-writer-producer Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love) whose latest film is There Will Be Blood. This critically acclaimed, epic film has just received eight Academy Award nominations, including two for Anderson in the categories of Directing and Adapted Screenplay. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Simmon Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934 is not only a mouthful as a title, but this DVD set deals with plain-spoken and direct controversy on the big screen in the silent era. You can hear all about it from its curator, Scott Simmon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Denzel Washington After Malcolm X and The Hurricane, you'd think Denzel Washington had enough of real life. But The Great Debaters, his second film as director, shows why fact drew him back. It's life as drama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc Forster It's an unusual grouping of films for Marc Forster: Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball, Stranger than Fiction and his newest, The Kite Runner. And many of them deal with storytellers. It's narratives and narrators. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julian Schnabel With Basquiat, Before Night Falls and his newest, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, artist and director Julian Schnabel turns film biography into art. He discusses separating fiction from fact. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tamara Jenkins Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director Tamara Jenkins (Slums of Beverly Hills) whose latest film is The Savages, starring Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joel and Ethan Coen Since 1984, writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen (Blood Simple, Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou.) have taken the chase and made some of best films of the past decade about it. Their newest, an adaptation of Colmac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, is a high-octane version of that. Start your engines! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Wagner Family, the ties that bind and, sometimes, strangle. Writer-director Andrew Wagner's made this the subject of two movies, including his newest, Starting Out in the Evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Craig Zobel In writing and directing his first feature film, Great Wall of Sound, Craig Zobel drew from his real life and focuses the film on the south that few see. It's a low-budget comedy about predators who are also prey.Note: This show will not be broadcast on 89.9 FM due to special holiday programming but it will be available online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian De Palma Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director-producer Brian De Palma (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, The Untouchables, Scarface) whose latest film is Redacted. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julien Temple Elvis Mitchell hosts-- writer-director Julien Temple (Vigo, The Great Rock n Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners, Glastonbury) whose new film is Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ridley Scott This year, director Ridley Scott celebrates 30 years of filmmaking, a career that includes Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator and his newest, American Gangster. Past, present and future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Hedges Dan in Real Life is not only a family comedy, it's a comedy about family. Writer-director Peter Hedges (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, About a Boy screenplay; Pieces of April writer/director) talks about noise and quiet that define family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Casey Affleck 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shekhar Kapur 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 Blanchett. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jenji Kohan 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Gilroy 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Benton 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Robin Baitz 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Axelrod 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christopher Monger and Garry Shandling 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neil Jordan: Web Only Special Edition 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Garlin 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patrick McGilligan 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeffrey Blitz 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seth Gordon 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Silverman Support KCRW's Summer SignUp: (http://www.kcrw.com) 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Greengrass Writer-director-producer Paul Greengrass (Bloody Sunday, United 93, The Bourne Supremacy) whose latest film is The Bourne Ultimatum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Badham 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Danny Boyle 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kasi Lemmons 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brad Bird 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adrian Grenier Elvis Mitchell hosts actor-writer---director-producer-musician--Adrian Grenier (Entourage, The Devil Wears Prada), whose documentary, Shot in the Dark, traces the search for his father, artist John Dunbar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eli Roth Elvis Mitchell hosts--director-writer-producer-actor--Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel, Grindhouse), whose latest film is Hostel: Part II. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Frizzell Elvis Mitchell hosts film composer John Frizzell (Alien : Resurrection, Office Space, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio) who recently scored the Stephen Hopkins/Hilary Swank film The Reaping. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Rodriguez Since creating El Mariachi, writer, director, cinematographer and composer Robert Rodriguez has done it his way with Spy Kids, Sin City and, his newest, Planet Terror. It's part of the Grindhouse double feature which he'll unspool for us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quentin Tarantino Elvis Mitchell hosts Academy award-winning writer-director-actor Quentin Tarantino (Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill) who co-wrote and co-directed Grindhouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Rock Elvis Mitchell hosts Emmy award-winning comedian Chris Rock, who directed, co-wrote and stars in the newfilm I Think I Love My Wife. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rory Kennedy Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy (American Hollow) has melded her curiosity to subjects of social injustice.-- Her new documentary, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, took on different shadings as she learned. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse Elvis Mitchell hosts Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, executive producers, writers and co-creator (Lindelof) of Lost. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anne Beatts In 1975, a comedy series connected to the politics and pop culture of young people, NBC's Saturday Night Live debuted.-- Its first season is now on DVD.-- Anne Beatts, one of a handful of women writers on the original Saturday Night Live, drops in to talk about being a pioneer among a group of pioneers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gay Talese Writer Gay Talese's fame as a journalist began with his fine profiles for Esquire and continued with non-fiction books such as Honor Thy Father and Thy Neighbor's Wife.-- With his new book, A Writer's Life, he turns his eye on himself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JamesSanders The book, Scenes from the City: Filmmaking in New York, is not only a sumptuous and evocative photo-history of New York filmmaking, it's a sharp and compelling look at city's cultural and social history through cinema.-- Its editor, James Sanders (co-writer or the Emmy Award-winning PBS series New York: A Documentary Film and its companion volume, New York: An Illustrated History, as well as Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies), connects the dots, from Marlon Brando to Woody Allen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christine Vachon Elvis Mitchell hosts award-winning producer Christine Vachon (I Shot Andy Warhol, Velvet Goldmine, Boys Don't Cry, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Far from Heaven) whose new book is A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anthony Minghella Breaking and Entering, the title of director Anthony Minghella's new film, could be used to describe the furtive movement between classes dramatized in his work.-- It's found in his Talented Mr Ripley, Cold Mountain and here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website George Miller Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director George Miller (the Mad Max films, the Babe films), whose new film is the Academy Award-nominated Happy Feet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christine Vachon Elvis Mitchell hosts award-winning producer Christine Vachon (I Shot Andy Warhol, Velvet Goldmine, Boys Don't Cry, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Far from Heaven) whose new book is A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christine Vachon Producer Christine Vachon is one of most prolific forces in independent films.-- (I Shot Andy Warhol, Velvet Goldmine, Boys Don't Cry, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Far from Heaven) Her company, Killer Films, has opened the door for some of the most singular talent in movies. With her book, A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond, she details how a New York upbringing lead her to what she loves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David LaChapelle Elvis Mitchell hosts photographer, music video director and documentarian David LaChapelle, whose new filmRizechronicles an exciting dance movement that rises out of South Central Los Angeles and is in theatres now. 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 Craig Brewer Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director Craig Brewer, whose new film isHustle&Flow, winner of the Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival. 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 Tim Story Elvis Mitchell hosts director Tim Story, whose work includes Barbershop, Taxi and the newest comic book spectacleFantastic Four, which is in theatres now. 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 David Cronenberg Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director David Cronenberg, whose films include The Fly, Naked Lunch, Crash, Spider and his newest film,A History of Violence. 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 William Mastrosimone Elvis Mitchell hosts writer William Mastrosimone, whose mini-seriesInto The Westis currently running on TNT. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christopher Nolan Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director Christopher Nolan (Following, Memento, Insomnia) whose new film isBatman Begins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Robbins Elvis Mitchell hosts Academy Award-winning actor-director-producer Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, War of the Worlds), whose filmed DVD version of his theatre company's productionEmbedded/Liveis now available exclusively throughNetflix. 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