The Treatment
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The Treatment is a compelling listen to the vital conversations about the catalysts of creative inspiration. Following some of the most interesting, influential, and crossover creators in the world of entertainment, fashion, sports, and the arts, we hear from tastemakers who are the very fabric that forms popular culture.
Episodes
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Sep 8, 2010 • 29min
Will Gluck: Easy A
Writer-director Will Gluck likes self-aware characters. He wrote for the TV soap-satire Grosse Pointe and co-created the show The Loop. His newest film is the updated version of The Scarlett Letter. Does Easy A make the grade?
Sep 1, 2010 • 29min
Jennifer Salt: Eat Pray Love
It makes sense that Jennifer Salt is now a screenwriter. The first act of her career was as an actress working with Robert Altman, Brian de Palma and Woody Allen. Her second act includes writing on Nip/Tuck and co-writing Eat Pray Love
Aug 25, 2010 • 29min
Jay Roach: Dinner for Schmucks
From the three Austin Powers movies to the two Focker films, Jay Roach has made some definite left turns. His newest, Dinner for Schmucks, is a departure that still lines up...
Aug 18, 2010 • 30min
Patricia Clarkson: Cairo Time
Actress Patricia Clarkson (The Station Agent, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) moves from impulsive characters -- like
her roles in High Art and Whatever Works, to thoughtful
ones -- like her role in the new film Cairo Time.
Aug 11, 2010 • 30min
Steve Carell: Dinner for Schmucks
Many of us think we’ve first met Steve Carell (Little Miss Sunshine, The Forty Year
Old Virgin) when he was a correspondent on The Daily Show. Many of us know him from The Office. But he’s made a big splash in movies this last year alone with three big films, including his latest, Dinner for Schmucks.
Aug 4, 2010 • 29min
Edgar Wright: Scott Pilgrim vs The World
After Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, writer-director Edgar Wright turns to the graphic novel Scott Pilgrim vs the World for his first adaptation. Find out how he makes it his own.
Jul 28, 2010 • 29min
Lucy Walker and Valerie Plame Wilson: Countdown to Zero
Documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker (Devil's Playground, Blindsight) has made films in improbable worlds: Amish teenagers, blind mountaineers, and, with Countdown to Zero, the nuclear arms issue. Walker and former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson talk "phishing."
Jul 21, 2010 • 30min
Phillip Noyce: Salt
After a decade of making independent films with personal and political points Salt director Phillip Noyce (Dead Calm, Patriot Games, Rabit-Proof Fence, Quiet American) has returned to the big screen with a sleeper-spy action film. See if it's spiced up his career.
Jul 14, 2010 • 30min
Christopher Nolan: Inception
Christopher Nolan's made Batman, The Joker and a Scandinavian film noir his own. With Inception, he returns to his roots, bringing an original script to the big screen.
Jul 7, 2010 • 30min
John C. Reilly
Elvis hosts actor John C. Reilly (Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Criminal) to talk about his latest feature, Cyrus, directed by Mark and Jay Duplass, in which he plays the lead role, along side Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei and Catherine Keener.
