Elvis hosts writer-director James Gray (The Yards, We Own the Night, Little Odessa ) whose latest film is Two Lovers, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow and Isabella Rossellini.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment. |
0:14.0 | Welcome to The Treatment. |
0:16.0 | You can also hear the show at KCRW.com. |
0:18.4 | My guest, director James Gray, has made three films about crime, romance, |
0:24.6 | and life outside of Manhattan. His newest film, Two Lovers, deals with love and life outside of |
0:31.2 | Manhattan. Jim, first of all, thanks for coming back to the show again. |
0:33.7 | Oh, thanks for having me, Elvis. And one thing that really does kind of run through your films is sort of romance, like |
0:39.9 | in a capital R sense, in the bironic sense, is really important to the conception, isn't |
0:44.5 | it? |
0:45.5 | I suppose that what has always attracted me to movies is an authenticity of emotion, if I may |
0:52.7 | say, which verges,ges frankly sometimes on melodrama. |
0:55.9 | I don't think there's anything wrong with melodrama. |
0:57.8 | I think that there's a sort of a bad word to some people, |
1:02.5 | but I would make a distinction between something that's melodramatic |
1:05.5 | and something that is melodrama. |
1:08.5 | Melodrama at its best really reaches a certain sort of higher truth, greater |
1:14.4 | truth, and emotional honesty. And that, I think, is something quite beautiful. And I think that |
1:19.3 | that just has its origins in me because I love 50s movies in the United States and a lot of |
1:24.8 | Italian movies. I'd also ask you, too, because there's something kind of operatic |
1:29.9 | in that sense of melodrama that you're talking about |
1:32.6 | that's key to the conception of these films. |
1:35.1 | One of my favorite films of all time is Lucino Visconti's Rocona's brothers. |
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