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.
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 , critics Glenn Kenny and Keith Uhlich , and a never-before-released inter...
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 Uhlich , Robert Castle and Tony Macklin , personal assistant Tony Fr...
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 Glenn Kenny , Robert Horton and Keith Uhlich , and film professo...
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 philosophy professor Daniel Shaw . Hosted by Jamey DuVall ....
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 Barry Krusch and Dean Treadway , author Peter Kramer , film ...
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 (Stanley Kubrick: A Biography) and Ed Sikov (Mr. Strangelove), critics Erich Feursten and Keith Uhlich, authors Mario Falsetto (...
Douglas Milsome BSC , ASC was a former camera operator for John Alcott on films like A Clockwork Orange , Barry Lyndon , and The Shining. He became a collaborator with director Stanley Kubrick following Alcott's death in 1986 on Full Metal Jacket....
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.
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 places like The New York Review of Science Fiction , The ...
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 and Modernity; and Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the ...
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.
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.
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.
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. Interactive Entertainment, Universal Studios, Millennium Media, Showtime and W...
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.
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'.
Director Tony Zierra and producer Elizabeth Yoffe discuss their documentary FILMWORKER, which tells the story of Kubrick's long-time personal assistant Leon Vitali.
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.
Ryan is the writer and editor of a blog devoted to visual analysis and image cataloging of The Shining called KDK12. He produced screenings of The Shining Forwards and Backwards, Simultaneously, Superimposed , a digital re-edit of the film.
Smith worked as a chief electrician on 'Barry Lyndon', a gaffer on 'The Shining', and as the cinematographer of 'Eyes Wide Shut'.
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'.
Vitali portrayed Lord Bullington in Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon' and went on to assist Kubrick in each of his future films for the next 24 years. He was essential in the casting process, conducting an exhaustive search before he discovered young actor Danny Lloyd for 'The Shining', and he worked closely with actor R. Lee Ermey during the production of 'Full Metal Jakcet'. Vitali also plays the character of Red Cloak in Kubrick's final film 'Eyes Wide Shut'.
Kubrick was a major influence on director and cinematographer Hyams, who has built a resume of terrific films, including 'Capricorn One', 'Running Scared', and '2010: The Year We Make Contact', the sequel to Kubrick's legendary '2001: A Space Odyssey'.
Castle teaches History and Film Criticism at a small academy outside Trenton, NJ. His articles on film have appeared in Bright Lights Film Journal, The Journal of Religion and Film, Metaphilm, 24 Frames Per Second, AugustCutter.com and Film Comment.
Kramer is a senior lecturer at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of BFI Film Classic volume on '2001: A Space Odyssey'.
Davis played Amanda Curran in Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut', the mystery woman (and possible murder victim) who assists Tom Cruise's character in the film.
Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature, Professor of Film and Screenwriting, British Literature at Clemson University and the author of many books on literature and film. He has written extensively about Kubrick's work, including an essay for Jerold Abrams' 'The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick'.
One of the great cinematic innovators, Brown was called upon to operate his new and revolutionary invention - the Steadicam - during the shooting of 'The Shining'. Throughout the process, Brown gained invaluable insights into Kubrick's meticulous and precise technical demands.
Macklin is a freelance film critic. A current member of the Las Vegas Film Critics Society , he is a former film and literature professor at the University of Dayton , and the former editor of the filmcrit magazine Film Heritage. His articles and reviews have been most recently featured at Rotten Tomatoes and The Internet Movie Database , as well as in the Bright Lights Film Journal and The Fayetteville Free Weekly . His well-received book, Voices from the Set: The Film Heritage Interviews (2000...
