1. Elvis Mitchell was born on December 6,1958 and is an American film critic, host of the public radio show The Treatment, and visiting lecturer at Harvard University.
17 Facts About Elvis Mitchell
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Elvis Mitchell has served as a film critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the LA Weekly, The Detroit Free Press, and The New York Times.
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Elvis Mitchell is currently a Film Scholar and lecturer at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Elvis Mitchell graduated in 1980 from Wayne State University, where he majored in English.
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Elvis Mitchell was a film critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the LA Weekly, The Detroit Free Press, and The New York Times.
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In one segment, Elvis Mitchell offered a quick run-down of all of director Oliver Stone's tropes, including "always keep that camera moving," which he said while moving a camcorder over a model of a Vietnam jungle and prison camp set up on a table.
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Elvis Mitchell was the host of the Independent Film Channel's Independent Focus, a one-on-one interview show in front of a live audience from 1998 to 2001.
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In March 2005 Elvis Mitchell was announced as the co-head of a New York City office for Sony's Columbia Pictures.
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Yet Elvis Mitchell simply disappeared, leaving Schindler to run the office alone and to this day refuses to discuss his odd behavior.
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From 2008 to 2010, Elvis Mitchell co-produced The Black List, a three-part series of documentaries about African Americans in the entertainment industry, with director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.
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Since 1996, Elvis Mitchell has been the host of Santa Monica, California, public radio station KCRW's pop culture and film interview program The Treatment, which is nationally distributed and podcast.
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Elvis Mitchell served for a number of years as a pop culture commentator for Weekend Edition on NPR.
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Elvis Mitchell announced that Mitchell, along with film critic Christy Lemire of the Associated Press, would be featured on the new program reviewing the new films released.
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In January 2011 it was announced that Elvis Mitchell had joined the Movieline as chief film critic, along with Stephanie Zacharek.
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Elvis Mitchell has been hired by the LACMA in partnership with Film Independent as curator of a new film series, Film Independent at LACMA.
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On February 9,2020, on the Red Carpet at the Oscars program, Elvis Mitchell said "capitalism is ruining humanity".
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In 2007, Elvis Mitchell appeared in an episode of the HBO TV series Entourage, playing himself.