Kubrick’s Universe: The Stanley Kubrick Podcast

Mike Kaplan is a film producer, documentary director, actor, award-winning poster designer, marketing strategist, and songwriter. He has been a close associate to many visionary filmmakers including Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Lindsay Anderson, Mike Hodges, Alan Rudolph, and Paul Thomas Anderson. He directed the documentaries: Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country, which showed...

In 1953, twenty-five-year-old Stanley Kubrick shot his first colour film, The Seafarers. In doing so, he also scored an early payday as a young independent filmmaker. Lost to the public for decades, Kubrick’s industrial short film for the Seafarers International Union was ultimately brought to the attention of Kubrick scholars and fans by an intrepid young enthusiast and filmworker himself named A...

Hey, everyone. Thanks for checking in with us once again at Kubrick’s Universe, where we continue our ongoing mission to explore the art and vision of the late, great Stanley Kubrick. If you’re listening to this, odds are you’ve seen 2OOI: A Space Odyssey. Well, have you ever seen Close Encounters Of The Third Kind? Star Trek: The Motion Picture? How about Blade Runner? Or even Terrence Malick’s T...

If 2020 was many unprecedented things, it was also the year of remote video conferencing - the year of Zoom. Enter our intrepid Mark Lentz, media maestro and man of many kind deeds. Mark, along with two of the greatest and coolest Kubrick scholars, James Marinaccio and James Sherman, stepped up and orchestrated a very cool and brand new concept, "The Kubrick Hour" on Zoom, as a way to keep enthusi...

Hello there rubes, ruffians, and rapscallions, we’ve got another episode of Kubrick’s Universe for you, dedicated to an appreciation of Stanley’s hauntingly gorgeous oil painting of a film, Barry Lyndon. By which I mean we’ve had the pleasure of chatting with Nora Brady herself, the wonderful Scottish actress, Gay Hamilton.  In this episode, you’ll hear Gay chat with us about how a young Scottish...

Mike Scott is a model maker, science fiction nut and a self-confessed NERD.  He was a child during the Apollo Space Programme in the 60’s and at 6 years old was blown away when he saw 2OO1 A Space Odyssey in the cinema with his dad. After eventually working out what was real and what was just a movie he continued his obsession. Starting off kit-bashing, which is basically creating his own models f...

Ok, so we have a fun show for you with a pretty unique guest and very cool guy. His name is Adrian Bush. In 1985, Ady was a 19 year-old British Army Reservist who learned that a call had been put out for military extras for an upcoming film production. The film turned out to be Kubrick’s inimitable 1987 Vietnam war examination, Full Metal Jacket.  Ady spent some time to share his stories with us i...

In this episode you’ll hear Keir Dullea chatting with us about how he came to work on 2001: A Space Odyssey, meeting Stanley Kubrick for the first time, his experiences on the set, and how it all altered the trajectory of his career and changed his life.  He also tells us other fascinating stories, from his love of theatre acting, being involved with the first Broadway revival of Cat On A Hot Tin...

In this first part, Keir Dullea talks with us about how he came to work on 2001: A Space Odyssey, meeting Stanley Kubrick for the first time, his experiences on the set, and how it altered the trajectory of his career and changed his life. He also tells us other fascinating stories about his 1962 film 'David and Lisa' and working with Laurence Olivier and the tyrannical director Otto Preminger on...

We surprised several of our members of The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society by hooking them up with legendary Filmworker and long-time Kubrick assistant, Leon Vitali. As usual, Leon was absolutely wonderful as he spoke at length to Kubrick fans worldwide. Recorded: 30th December 2019 Hosted by Jason Furlong / Written by Stephen Rigg and Jason Furlong / Theme and original music written and perf...

Stanley Kubrick passed in March 1999. In the days following Kubrick's death many people wrote messages on various message boards to express their feelings about the awful news. Some of the following comments were on a Prodigy web page someone had set up called Stanley Kubrick the Master Filmmaker. Others were on a Lycos fan page which had a guest-book section to leave comments. More come from the...

  Our guest is Professor Jeremi Szaniawski, who is the editor of the new book “After Kubrick: A Filmmaker’s Legacy," published by Bloomsbury and released on Feb 20th, 2020. Jeremi received a PhD from Yale University and is currently a professor of film at UMass Amherst. He is interviewed by our regular Kubrick's Universe contributor, Mark Lentz. Recorded: 30th January 2020 Hosted by Jason Furlong...

This is the first part of our interview with Gerald Fried. We spoke to him in late 2018, when he was just 90 years young. Gerald Fried, a native New Yorker, has scored almost 300 films and television shows in a career spanning 70 x years. His movie scores include such varied titles as Machine Gun Kelly for Roger Corman, Jack Nicholson’s first feature film The Cry Baby Killer, The Killing of Sister...

We have something truly special in store for you with this episode. Forty-five years ago a couple of young and very gifted actors were recruited by Stanley Kubrick to play two very essential characters in his masterful 1975 film, Barry Lyndon.  We're referring of course to Leon Vitali and David Morley, who played step-brothers, Lord Bullingdon and Bryan Lyndon. You’re going to hear a surprise call...

Another year over and another End-Of-Year extravaganza with your guys from Kubrick's Universe, Jason Furlong, James Marinaccio, Mark Lentz and Stephen Rigg. 2019 was another great year in Kubrick's Universe, and the team recall, review and ramble their way through the years events. Recorded: 9th December 2019 Hosted by Jason Furlong / Written by Stephen Rigg and Jason Furlong / Theme and original...

The director of a new short film called, Never Just A Dream: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut, talks to Kubrick's Universe about the creation of his film. The short documentary is produced by Park Circus for Warner Bros. Pictures International and is presented as part of a special 20th Anniversary screening of Eyes Wide Shut (1999). We spoke for a second time to the documentary's director and pr...

The co-authors of a new book called, EYES WIDE SHUT Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film, have created an archeology of the film from its origin to its creation and beyond. Robert P. Kolker is Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, and taught cinema studies for almost 50 years. He is the author of A Cinema of Loneliness, The Altering Eye, Film, Form, and Culture, The Extraordinary...

Question: What do Blade Runner, The Magnificent Ambersons, Cinema Paradiso and Brazil have in common? Answer: They have all been re-edited after their initial theatrical releases. Originally released in the US on the 16th July 1999, Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick’s final film was generally received by audiences and critics alike as somewhat disappointing. There seems to be some debate over wether the fin...

We talk to friend and long-time assistant to Stanley Kubrick, Leon Vitali about his time working on Barry Lyndon with fellow actors Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson and David Morley and of course his collaboration with Stanley. We also spoke about acting, The Beatles, Daniel Day Lewis, hod carrying on his school holidays and more. Recorded: 9th July 2018 Hosted by Jason Furlong / Written by Stephen Ri...

In todays show, we will be speaking with Joe Turkel, who started his acting career in 1949. He has worked with some of the best directors in the business, including William Castle, Lewis Milestone, Sam Fuller, William Wyler, Paul Wendkos, Buzz Kulik, Edward Dmytryk, Bryan Forbes, Robert Wise, Roger Corman and Ridley Scott. His TV appearances have included, The Lone Ranger, Highway Patrol, Broken A...

We talk to Mick Broderick about a new book called, "The Kubrick Legacy", which has been edited by Mick. We discuss the topic of "Kubrick on Screen". Mick Broderick is Associate Professor of Media Analysis at Murdoch University. His major publications include, "Reconstructing Strangelove", editions of the reference work "Nuclear Movies", and as editor or co editor, on "Hibakusha Cinema", "Interroga...

Matt Wells is a filmmaker and in-house producer at Park Circus, where he makes documentaries about some of the many films represented by the company. His forthcoming film Stanley Kubrick Considers The Bomb is a short documentary that looks at Kubrick’s relationship to the threat of nuclear war. That film will introduce the new 4K restoration of Dr Strangelove in theatres. Matt’s previous films inc...

We hear from friends, colleagues and fans of SK, as we celebrate the life and work of Stanley Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick was born on 26th July 1928 in New York and died aged 70 on the 7th March 1999. We speak to long-time Kubrick assistant Leon Vitali, Kubrick biographer Vincent LoBrutto, Kubrick's producing partner James B. Harris and Kubrick composer Gerald Fried as well as many other collaborator...

In this episode we talk to Stanley Kubrick biographer, Mr. Vincent LoBrutto about the his seminal Kubrick biography. Vincent LoBrutto is a teacher of motion picture editing and cinema studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has worked for Fox and HBO as editor and for the ABC television network as a postproduction coordinator. Vincent is also a special member of ACE, which is the the...

In this episode we talk to friend and long-time assistant to Stanley Kubrick, Leon Vitali about the new documentary FILMWORKER, with special guest Adam Rackoff and the team from SKAS. Hosted by Jason Furlong / Written by Stephen Rigg and Jason Furlong / Theme and original music written and performed by Jason Furlong / Produced and edited by Stephen Rigg Interview Recorded: 9th July 2018 Please sup...