2001: Stanley Kubrick (Part 1)

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!