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The Treatment

Owen Gleiberman: Movie Freak

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Film critic Owen Gleiberman visits The Treatment to discuss his roots in film analysis as movies helped him feel "connected" during childhood. He explains this and more in his new book Movie Freak.

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From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment.

0:34.6

It's The Treatment.

0:46.6

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I guess I think I've always thought real criticism was about in any

0:50.2

feel is finally enthusiasm and maybe some intensity too, and that's something you find in the work

0:56.0

of my guest owen glabberman who was with entertainment weekly from its inception in 1990 to 2014

1:02.2

he's published his autobiography the book is movie freak first of all owen thanks so much you're doing

1:07.5

this oh man it's great to be here Elvis it's good to have you and one of the fun things about reading the book is seeing you mentioned a movie in the very beginning

1:14.1

that I didn't think anybody else had ever seen, a movie called The Penthouse.

1:18.2

1967.

1:19.4

It's a movie like no one's ever heard of, although I found that I had to, when I wanted to see it again,

1:24.0

I had to kind of work to find a DVD copy of it. And now you can just watch it

1:28.9

on YouTube. But it's one of the movies that my parents took me and my younger brothers to see

1:34.3

in the late 60s at a drive-in theater. My dad in particular had developed sort of a taste. He

1:40.6

wasn't that much of a movie buff, but he was, you know, a philanderer and other

1:45.6

things. And he kind of developed a taste for the, uh, the new adult cinema that Hollywood was

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