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The Treatment

The Treat: Thierry Frémaux

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6656 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The Cannes Film Festival recently wrapped up its 79th year celebrating films from around the world. Prior to the festival, its director Thierry Frémaux premiered his own film, 'Lumière le Cinéma!,' a look at the birth of cinema through the Lumière Brothers and their invention of the cinematograph. It’s now streaming on the Criterion Channel. For his treat, Frémaux celebrates an American singer-songwriter whose music doesn’t shy away from protesting the country he calls home.

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the treat. I'm Elvis Mitchell. The recently completed 79th edition of the world's best-known film festival, Khan, where I am, as I write this, was brought together by its director, Terry Formo, who also runs the Lyon Film Festival. He is also a film director, and his newest film, Lumire and Cinema, is now available on the

0:23.8

Criterion Channel.

0:25.6

He's a lover of music as well.

0:27.8

His treat is a boss whose work is intimate and epic and whose uniquely American perspective

0:34.5

brings the world together.

0:37.5

I'm Tiri Fremont from the Lumier Institute and the Cannes Film Festival.

0:42.2

This is the treat.

0:43.5

Through the winter's ice and cold, down to Gilaude Avenue.

0:52.0

A city of flame fought fire and ice

0:55.6

Nathan occupiers boots

0:58.9

I would love to say that

1:03.6

Bruce Springsteen is back on the road

1:06.7

and concert hall for his new tour in the U.S.

1:12.9

We had the chance to have it in Europe last summer

1:16.1

and after his street of Minneapolis,

1:20.6

we can wait for big shows everywhere in the U.S.

1:25.6

Citizens stood for justice,

1:29.3

their voices ringing through the night

1:33.3

and there were bloody

1:36.3

song is found the road

1:39.3

and maybe my favorite album is

1:42.3

is maybe the river because it was really my meeting with him.

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