Ike Barinholtz: "The Oath’’

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Director Ike Barinholtz on tackling the tone of his politically charged directorial debut “The Oath”.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.5	Welcome to the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. Back at KCRWG, I forgot what this place looked like his been so long since I've been there.
0:20.0	And I was at LaPark. So was my guest, Ike Barronholtz.
0:22.8	Late of Chicago, more recently of Los Angeles, from, we know him from, gosh, the Mindy Project.
0:27.9	I know from a weirdest little movie, this elevator movie.
0:30.7	I saw it in a can in summer 2001.
0:33.6	You saw the lift?
0:35.1	Yes.
0:35.5	It was called Down. When I saw it, it was called Down.
0:38.8	I can't believe, first of all I'm talking to you, and I can't believe that Down came up
0:42.9	because no one I know has seen it.
0:44.9	It's the oddest movie.
0:46.3	It's a remake of his original.
0:48.1	This is a director named Dick Moss.
0:49.7	Who did the Lyft, which is actually the great version of that. Dick Moss, I'm trying to think of the American comp. I mean, I think it would be easy to say Spielberg, but it's...
0:56.7	No, it's actually more if you sort of intersect that Spielberg and Toby Hooper, the guy
1:00.9	who made...
1:01.6	Yeah, that's what it is.
1:03.5	It's like if Toby Hooper and Stephen Spielberg had a Dutch child, it would be Dick Moss. Anyway, more recently, this news film, first, I guess, you're writing, directing debut.
1:14.7	Yes, sir.
1:15.5	Is The Elth.
1:16.4	And one of the things I wanted to mention to you about it is that it's got the perfect ending
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