The Kubrick Series

The Kubrick Series

The Kubrick Series includes in-depth analysis and recounts of the Stanley Kubrick canon from Fear and Desire to The Shining, as well as over 60 interviews with his collaborators, friends and assorted critics and analyists, including Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, Leon Vitali, James B. Harris, Malcolm McDowell and many others.

Episodes

December 31, 2022 83 mins

Lee Unkrich is the Academy Award-winning director of Toy Story 3 and Coco. He’s also the foremost expert in all things related to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. His brilliant three-volume set on the film is now available through Taschen publishing. Click here for more information and to purchase this extraordinary set.

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An exploration of Kubrick's seminal Vietnam War film with a panel of special guests including actors Matthew Modine and Vincent D'Onofrio, Kubrick's personal assistant Leon Vitali, cinematographer Douglas Milsome, journalist and author Tim Cahill, Vietnam veteran and film professor Harry Haines, film and philosophy professor Daniel Shaw. author Randy Rasmussen (Stanley Kubrick: 7 Films Analyzed), writer Jason Sanford, c...

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September 8, 2020 122 mins

An assortment of Kubrick's closest collaborators and various critics and analysts examine the mysteries of Kubrick's masterpiece of horror, which stands as his most mainstream and pleasing, yet deceptively cryptic works.

Guests include actor and Kubrick’s long-time personal assistant Leon Vitali, Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown, biographer Vincent LoBrutto, assistant director Brian W. Cook, film critics Glenn Kenny, Keith U...

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In celebration of one of the most beautifully photographed and haunting films ever made, our panel of special guests explore the rewards of Kubrick's costume epic Barry Lyndon.

Guests include actor and long-time Kubrick assistants Leon Vitali and Tony Frewin, writer/director Neil Labute (Your Friends and Neighbors), assistant directors Andy Anderson and Brian Cook, biographer Vincent LoBrutto, author Randy Rasmussen, critics Gle...

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A Clockwork Orange shocked and scandalized the world upon its initial release nearly 50 years ago, and continues to maintain its immense power to this day.

Guests include actor Malcolm McDowell, Kubrick's personal assistant Tony Frewin, film professors Steve Mamber and R. Burton Palmer, biographer Vincent LoBrutto, authors Stuart Y. McDougal, Mario Falsetto, Peter Kramer and Randy Rasmussen, critic Keith Uhlich, and film and phi...

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A celebration of one of the towering achievements of the cinematic medium - 2001: A Space Odyssey - with behind the scenes anecdotes from key talents on the film and detailed analysis from a panel of top film critics and authors.

Guests include actor Dan Richter (Moonwatcher), biographer Vincent LoBrutto, author Mario Falsetto, author Randy Rasmussen, critic Keith Uhlich, director Peter Hyams, producer Robert Watts, film analysts Ba...

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Trace the origins of Stanley Kubrick's stellar career - from Look magazine photographer to director of early classics including 'Fear and Desire', 'Killer's Kiss', 'The Killing', 'Lolita', 'Paths of Glory', 'Spartacus' and 'Dr. Strangelove'.

Guests include producer James B. Harris, actors Shane Rimmer, Shirley Douglas, and Richard Anderson, biographers Vincent LoBrutto ...

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Douglas Milsome BSCASC was a former camera operator for John Alcott on films like A Clockwork OrangeBarry Lyndon, and The Shining. He became a collaborator with director Stanley Kubrick following Alcott's death in 1986 on Full Metal Jacket.

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LoBrutto authored the first full-length biography of Stanley Kubrick in his remarkable work 'Stanley Kubrick: A Biography', for which he interviewed more than 70 of Kubrick's friends, collaborators and admirers. LoBrutto recently penned a biography of Martin Scorsese, and is currently developing a similar treatment of director Ridley Scott.

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Mr. Sanford is the author of a number of short stories, essays, and articles. He is the winner of a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship and his stories have been published in magazines such as The Mississippi Review, Diagram, The Beloit Fiction Journal, Analog: Science Fiction and Fact, Interzone, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Pindeldyboz, and other places. He’s also published critical essays and book reviews in...

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June 25, 2020 47 mins

Kenny was the esteemed critic of Premiere Magazine for many years before beginning his own blog at somecamerunning.typepad.com. He now reviews films for MSN.

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Harris approached Kubrick with a proposal for a production partnership following a successful stint in sales and distribution. He produced Kubrick's 'The Killing', 'Paths of Glory' and 'Lolita' prior to embarking on his own successful directing career.  

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Geoffrey Cocks is Julian S. Rammelkamp Professor of History at Albion College in Michigan. A graduate of Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, he earned his Ph.D. in history at UCLA in 1975. He is the author of Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The Goring Institute and Treating Mind and Body; editor of The Curve of Life: Correspondence of Heinz Kohut; and co-editor of Psycho/History; German Professions, 1800-1950; Medicine a...

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June 25, 2020 50 mins

Jay Weidner is a renowned author, filmmaker and hermetic scholar. Considered a ‘modern-day Indiana Jones’ for his ongoing worldwide quests to find clues to mankind’s spiritual destiny via ancient societies and artifacts. An acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Mr. Weidner is the President of Sacred Mysteries Productions. He theorized a possible hidden meaning of 'The Shining' involving a cover-up of the faked moon landings.

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Director Tony Zierra and producer Elizabeth Yoffe discuss their documentary FILMWORKER, which tells the story of Kubrick's long-time personal assistant Leon Vitali.

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D'Alessandro was a personal assistant to Kubrick from 1971 until the time of his death. He is the subject of the recent documentary S Is for Stanley.

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June 25, 2020 40 mins

After running the East Coast marketing division of Warner Bros. Pictures, Buckley co-founded Warner Bros. Online in 1996 and shortly after established WB's Interactive Marketing Division, which he headed through 2008. In 2009, he founded THA.i, a full service digital marketing agency, a division of Terry Hines & Associates, serving such clients, among others, as CBS Films, Warner Bros. Pictures, IMAX, Warner Bros. Interacti...

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June 25, 2020 43 mins

Richter played the pivotal role of Moonwatcher in Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey', and became an integral part of cinematic history with an iconic moment in the Dawn of Man sequence. Richter chronciled his '2001' experience in his book 'Moonwatcher's Memoir'.

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The following interview was conducted in 1987 for Rolling Stone magazine by journalist Tim Cahill. The recordings of this interview have never before been heard by the public. Mr. Cahill has generously made them available exclusively to listeners of The Kubrick Series.

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Krusch has written essays on everything from media and psychology to politics and the constitution. His cinema writings have largely centered on the works of Stanley Kubrick, and can be found in his exhaustive ongoing analysis in the Kubrick FAQ, and in his newly released analysis of 'Eyes Wide Shut'.

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