KCRW's The Treatment

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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 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 entertainment.Each week Elvis speaks with an amazing array of guests discussing everything from their inner conflicts to their interior design. With a straightforward style that understates his vast knowledge Elvis is able to extract insights issues and inspirations from even the most introverted guests. Conversations on The Treatment are mostly comfortable sometimes contentious but always fascinating.

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  Edgar Wright
  Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:58:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Elvis Mitchell)
  

  You know director Edgar Wright from his films Hot Fuzz and Shawn of the Dead, but his partnership with actor Simon Pegg precedes them. They also worked together on the smart, action-packed and emotional British comedy series, Spaced...

  
  
  
  
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  Don Cheadle
  Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:30:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Elvis Mitchell)
  

  Elvis Mitchell hosts actor Don Cheadle (Oceans Eleven, Oceans Twelve, Oceans Thirteen, Crash, Hotel Rwanda) whose latest starring role is in the film Traitor.

  
  
  
  
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  Susanna White
  Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:43:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Elvis Mitchell)
  

  Paranoia, hostility and patience -- not exactly the stuff of war dramas. The seven-part mini-series, Generation Kill, focuses on just that. Susanna White (Bleak House, Jane Eyre)  directed four of seven episodes and talks about getting her "ground attack" together.

  
  
  
  
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  Ben Stiller
  Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:14:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Elvis Mitchell)
  

  Ben Stiller (Zoolander, Meet the Fockers, The Cable Guy, Reality Bites) is a director, producer and writer. But he's first and foremost an actor who's done comedy and drama on the stage and on the screen.

  
  
  
  
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  Courtney Hunt
  Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:49:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Elvis Mitchell)
  

  Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director Courtney Hunt whose debut feature film, Frozen River, won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

  
  
  
  
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  Jenji Kohan and Roberto Benabib
  Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:59:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Elvis Mitchell)
  

  The suburban dealer-mom of the cable series Weeds has moved her act to the beach and Mexico. Weeds’ executive producerss Jenji Kohan and Roberto Benabib hit us with the ideas they use to keep this comedy-drama fresh – and seedless.

  
  
  
  
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  Christopher Nolan
  Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:30:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Elvis Mitchell)
  

  In the ten years since he’s been making feature films, writer-director Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Prestige, Batman Begins) has been making films in which the protagonists' emotional chaos has been mirrored in the physical world around them. His second Batman film, The Dark Knight, is said to the the pinnacle of that.
  

  
  
  
  
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  Jonathan Levine
  Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:30:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Elvis Mitchell)
  

  What do you get when you bring Ben Kingsley, Method Man, Josh Peck and Mary-Kate Olsen together? Besides the dream episode of Access Hollywood, you get writer-director Jonathan Levine's first, film, The Wackness.

  
  
  
  
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  Alex Gibney
  Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:14:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Elvis Mitchell)
  

  WEB EXCLUSIVE: 2008 has been quite a year for director Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room). Two documentaries he was involved with were nominated for Oscars, and his film, Taxi to the Dark Side, won. His new doc, Gonzo, takes us into the heart and soul of Hunter S. Thompson.
  

   

  
  
  
  
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  Andrew Stanton
  Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:30:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Elvis Mitchell)
  

  Animated films have had many stars: animals, fish, toys, bugs, cars... WALL-E is the first with a lead with no face. It's a trash compactor. Is this the future of cartoons? We ask WALL-E director Andrew Stanton (A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo)