This hour, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of A Clockwork Orange — the 50th anniversary of its wide release in the U.S., that is, on February 2, 1972 — our first full, show-length look at the work of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.

Our original go at this, about six months into the pandemic, was my worst experience producing live radio remotely, with Colin hosting from home and Zoom guests and all the rest. Because of various technical issues, we spent many minutes during that live hour trying to make it so that Colin and the guests could, um, hear each other. That doesn’t usually make for very good radio, and it left us with a much shorter conversation about Kubrick than we’d planned. I’m still scarred by it.

But by some strange miracle, we’d also planned to record an extra, intentionally shorter conversation — also about Kubrick, also with those same guests — after that day’s show for a future day’s show. And somewhere in all that, there was the material for a whole show.

So finally, we present this full-length careful consideration of the filmmaker behind 2001, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Spartacus, Eyes Wide Shut, A Clockwork Orange… the filmmaker Steven Spielberg called “the best in history”: Stanley Kubrick.

GUESTS:

• James Hanley - Co-founder of Cinestudio at Trinity College
• David Mikics - Author of Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker
• Lila Shapiro - Senior reporter at New York magazine and Vulture, where she published “i-learned-after-watching-eyes-wide-shut-100-times.html">What I Learned After Watching Eyes Wide Shut 100 Times”

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Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show, parts of which originally aired September 2 and October 28, 2020.

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