4.6 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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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.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment. |
0:15.4 | Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. My guest, writer-director James Gray, has made the family melodrama as |
0:21.3 | Métje, going back to his first film, Little Odessa, through, of course, one of my favorite |
0:25.7 | films of the 21st Century, The Yards. We Own The Night, Two Lovers. His newest film is writer-director |
0:31.3 | is The Immigrant. First of all, Jim, thanks so much for coming back. Thanks for having me. |
0:35.7 | And that is true for you, the family melodrama is your thing, is it not? |
0:41.0 | I guess you could say that it is. |
0:43.3 | I could also tell you that I didn't set out to sort of do that when I graduated from school. |
0:48.3 | You know, I didn't say I'm going to make films that are family melodramas. |
0:50.7 | It just sort of becomes that. |
0:53.0 | I don't know how when you start out writing |
0:54.5 | it's it and then you know you start at A and it winds up at you know C or something somehow |
0:59.2 | Well where does the immigrant come from because it clearly falls in with all of those well the |
1:05.1 | The immigrant was it came from a number of different sources but one of the major source was really the stories |
1:10.8 | that my grandmother had told to my father, who of course then told them to me about the experience |
1:16.0 | of coming to the United States through Ellis Island and then later, of course, setting up a life |
1:20.7 | in the Lower East Side. And I thought that the amazing thing was that it seemed totally unlike the American dream stories that I had been taught from basically from the crib, which were, |
1:35.3 | I came to America and it was a land of plenty and then I was a very rich man. You know what I'm saying? It wasn't that. My experience of my grandparents' American dream was that it was a double-edged sword. I mean, there was a kind of a |
1:53.0 | melancholy that pervaded their house, and I got the sense that they never got over missing the old country and the old culture. |
2:02.9 | And I hadn't really seen that done in a movie. |
2:08.5 | I'd seen movies, of course, about immigration where it's about trouble adapting, but sort of carrying with you that sense of loss and of tragedy with you from one place to |
2:14.5 | the other I thought was an interesting thing to explore. |
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