The Kubrick Series – Details, episodes & analysis

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. 

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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'.

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.

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.

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.