2001: Stanley Kubrick (Part 2)

This is the fourth and final episode of the 2001: A Space Odyssey mini-series. It is in two parts. This is part 2.

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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Nathan Abrams is a professor in 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.

Filmworker (2017) is mentioned by Rodney. It is a documentary directed by Tony Zierra.

You can learn more about Tony Frewin and Douglas Trumbull on their Wikipedia pages. Both these men worked for Kubrick during 2001: A Space Odyssey and went on to do amazing things.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

00:59 Reactions to 2001

04:40 Critic Pauline Kael

10:02 Kubrick's Control

14:03 Other directors and the filmmaking process

18:08 Monastic devotion to his art

20:10 Investing in youth

23:18 Anecdotes

24:41 Post 2001 challenges

31:30 Legacy

37:36 Recommendations

Recommendations:

2001: Filming the Future by Piers Bizony

Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual by Nathan Abrams

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Benson

Planet of the Apes (1968)

THE NEXT EPISODE!

What!? Is the mini-series done? Yes it is. It's been a lot. And in two weeks 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.