2001: Stanley Kubrick (Part 1)
Notes de l’épisode
This is the fourth and final episode of the 2001: A Space Odyssey mini-series. It is in two parts. This is part 1.
I've decided to split the episode up into two parts to make them a friendlier, more digestible length. Both episodes will be released at the same time so you can go crazy and listen to all of it at once if that's your thing!
The audio at the beginning of both parts is taken from a 1965 interview recorded by physicist and writer Jeremy Bernstein.
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This week's guests will try and fit the life of an exceptional man into a teeny tiny space (well, around one hour and twenty minutes) and they do it so well.
Nathan Abrams is a Professor of Film at Bangor University, he has written extensively about film and about Stanley Kubrick including co-writing the 2024 biography Kubrick: An Odyssey
Rodney F Hill is a Professor of Film at the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University and has written extensively about film including co-writing The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick
Two of Kubrick's long time projects were a film based on Napoleon's life and a film based on the Holocaust which has become known as The Aryan Papers.
Chapters part 1
00:00 Introduction
01:20 Kubrick the early years
03:16 First camera and Look magazine
05:14 The Jewish Bronx
06:09 School
09:02 Earning a living in NY
10:51 Ruth Sobotka
11:38 Pre Spartacus
18:06 Not giving credit
25:05 Themes in his film
28:16 Humour
31:29 2001
33:26 God concept through a Jewish lens
THE NEXT EPISODE!
Well, the next episode it part 2 and it's already available but then we move on to The Night of the Living Dead by George Romero. The film is widely available and you have two whole weeks to find it!