What lights Martin Scorsese up when he’s in front of the camera?
The Treatment
KCRW
4.6 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
At 82-years-old, Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese’s excitement for creating moving images is as palpable as ever. This quality shines throughout actor/filmmaker Rebecca Miller’s new Apple TV+ documentary Mr. Scorsese and she’s here to tell us all about her process, including the key to getting her subject to open up on camera. Plus, writer Brad Inglesby (Task, Mare of Easttown) joins just ahead of the Task finale to explain how his family and his experiences with Catholicism found their way into the show (among other thought-provoking anecdotes). And Superman director James Gunn is gonna rock your world with this week’s Treat.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
| 0:14.1 | It's The Treatment. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Elvis Mitchell. |
| 0:16.2 | You can also hear the show at KCOW.com. |
| 0:19.1 | We've been hearing Rebecca Miller's voice on this show since her film Personal Velocity, |
| 0:24.2 | which was a grand jury winner at the Sun Den's film festival. |
| 0:28.8 | She's made a few films since then. |
| 0:30.4 | She's written a few books since then. |
| 0:32.9 | She's made a few documentaries since then. |
| 0:35.7 | In fact, she has just completed a five-hour documentary series for Apple TV. |
| 0:42.2 | The series is Mr. Scoresi. |
| 0:44.7 | First of all, Rebecca Miller, it's always a pleasure to have you. |
| 0:46.7 | It's nice to actually be able to see you. |
| 0:49.4 | It's so fun to see you again. |
| 0:51.5 | I guess the first thing I want to ask you about this incredible thing is |
| 0:55.5 | tell me your first memory of meeting Martin Scorsazzi. This may not have been the very first time |
| 1:01.5 | I met him, but it's the time I remember. It was on the set of gangs of New York, and he was about |
| 1:06.9 | to shoot the big battle scene where, you know, the initial big battle scene, like when he |
| 1:13.0 | comes out on my challenge and all that, you know, Daniel. And I was watching him, and he was, |
| 1:18.1 | he seemed so kind of nervous. He was kind of a live wire. And he seemed like a really young person |
| 1:24.3 | who was making this film. And he was already a kind of maestro and made so many |
| 1:29.5 | films and was not what I expected. He was so vivid with life and I remember that really clearly. |
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