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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Jun 10, 2009 • 29min
Brad Silberling
For television fans, the phrase "not a routine expedition" ranks up there with "a three-hour tour." Director Brad Silberling (Casper, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events) brings TV fans the classic Land of the Lost to the big screen -- with extra cheese.
Jun 3, 2009 • 29min
Pete Docter
Elvis hosts writer-director Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc, Toy Story, Wall-e) to talk about his latest film, Up, the first Pixar movie to be projected in 3-D as well as being the first ever animated feature film to be screened as the opening night film at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
May 27, 2009 • 30min
Lloyd Kaufman
Troma Studios co-founder Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead) has been about do-it-yourself. His new book, Direct Your Own Damn Movie, is the same thing.
May 20, 2009 • 30min
Russell Brand
Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) has established his own separate wing to the garden of earthly delights...
May 13, 2009 • 30min
Rian Johnson
Elvis hosts writer-director Rian Johnson (Brick) whose new film is The Brothers Bloom, starring Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo.
May 6, 2009 • 30min
Matt Tyrnauer
After a tenure at Vanity Fair, Matt Tyrnauer has turned to making documentaries. The subject is the couturier, Valentino, at the end of his career but not his powers...
Apr 29, 2009 • 30min
James Toback
From the scripts for The Gambler and Bugsy to his own
films as a director, James Toback has made intensely personal work. His
documentary, Tyson, is his own take on the boxer...
Apr 22, 2009 • 29min
Tim Disney
The past twelve months have seen slew of films on perversions of justice. American Violet brings that material to a smaller, more intimate scale. Director Tim Disney (Blessed Art Thou) uses real life details to give his drama bite.
Apr 15, 2009 • 30min
Steve McQueen: Hunger
Turner Award-winner Steve
McQueen’s directorial debut, "Hunger," is based on the 1981 IRA hunger strike in Northern Ireland's
infamous Maze prison.
Apr 8, 2009 • 29min
John Hamburg
Comedy about shifting definitions of masculinity is where writer-director John Hamburg (Zoolander, Safe Men, Meet the Fockers) finds laughs. His newest film is I Love You, Man, starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel.
