The Kubrick Series

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 interview with Kubrick himself. Access over 60 hours of bonus content by becoming a Patreon supporter of the series. Visit TheKubrickSeries.com or Patreon.com/TheKubrickSeries for more details.

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 Frewin , Stephen King authority and author Tony Magistrale , authors Randy Rasmussen , R. Barton Palmer , Geoffrey Cocks , and Mario Falsetto , film professor Steve Mamber , author and filmmaker Jay Weidner , ABC News reporter Bill Blakemore , ROOM 237 filmmakers Rodney Ascher and Tim Kirk , director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield), and film analyst John Krysko . Hosted by Jamey DuVall .

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 professor Steve Mamber . Hosted by Jamey DuVall .

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 professor R. Barton Palmer , Kubrick's personal assistant Tony Frewin , and critic Robert Castle . Hosted by Jamey DuVall .

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 (Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Ananlysis), Peter Biskind (Easy Riders, Raging Bulls), and Randy Rasmussen (Stanley Kubrick: 7 Films Analyzed), Criterion Collection producer Curtis Tsui, director and cinematographer Peter Hyams (2010: The Year We Make Contact), film analyst Barry Krusch, and film professor R. Barton Palmer. Hosted by Jamey DuVall.

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), includes his 1970s interviews with Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Martin Scorsese, Alan Rudolph, Robert Altman, Sam Peckinpah, John Wayne, Edith Head, Stockard Channing, Richard Baskin, and others.

Watts is best known for his producing duties on the 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones' films. He began his career as a production manager on '2001: A Space Odyssey'.

Acclaimed choreographer and performer Yolande Snaith was called upon by Kubrick to choreograph the elaborate masked ball ritual sequence that serves as the centerpiece of the film.

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.

Magistrale is a Professor in English at the University of Vermont since 1983. He has written several books about Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe, including Stephen King: America's Storyteller, which includes a piece titled 'Why The Shining Still Matters'.

"Full Metal Jacket" was D'Onofrio's screen debut. So indelible was his performance that it forever placed him in the pantheon of our greatest actors. D'Onofrio gained 70 pounds for the role of Leonard, shed his hair, and struggled through the emotional turmoil that coincided with this dramatic physical transformation.

Frewin was Kubrick's assistant for over 30 years beginning with '2001: A Space Odyssey'. He would later write the screenplay for Brian W. Cook's 'Color Me Kubrick', and serves as the producer of Jan Harlan's documentary 'Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures'.

Kreider is a renowned cartoonist and writer, whose critical essays have appeared in Film Quarterly, The Comics Journal, Jump Cut, and Lip, and have been anthologized in Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History.

Mr. Cahill is an acclaimed journalist, author and co-founder of Outside magazine. He interviewed Kubrick in 1987 for Rolling Stone magazine.

Producer Tim Kirk & director Rodney Ascher are the creative team behind the acclaimed documentary Room 237, which explores the various themes and theories associated with The Shining.

McDougal is a visiting scholar at Cornell University. His in-depth book titled 'Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange' chronicles the making of Kubrick's extraordinary film, and its enduring legacy that carries on to this day.

Mamber teaches in the Cinema and Media Studies Program of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA - Berkley. He is a founding member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. His writings on Stanley Kubrick include an examination of 'A Clockwork Orange' and Kubrick's use of spacial concepts throughout his films.

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.