Movie Geeks United! welcomes a panel of more than 60 distinguished guests as part of their 8-part tribute to filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, including Kubrick's collaborators, friends, and authors and critics who continue to investigate his work with unique and illuminating points of view. Our guest list continues to grow, so check back often for updates.


MATTHEW MODINE

By the time he was offered the starring role in Kubrick's 'Full Metal Jacket', Modine had alread worked with some of our finest directors, including Alan Parker, John Sayles and Robert Altman. In subsequent years, Modine has delivered indelible performances in high profile films like 'Gross Anatomy', 'And the Band Played On' and 'Any Given Sunday'.  Visit Full Metal Jacket Diary for more information on Mr. Modine's experience working with Kubrick.


JAMES B. HARRIS

Harris approached Kubrick with a proposal for a production partnership following a successful stint in sales and distribution.  He produced Kubrick's 'The Killing', 'Paths of Glory' and 'Lolita' prior to embarking on his own successful directing career.  Harris's films include 'The Bedford Incident' and 'Cop'.


LEON VITALI

Vitali portrayed Lord Bullington in Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon' and went on to assist Kubrick in each of his future films for the next 24 years.  He was essential in the casting process, conducting an exhaustive search before he discovered young actor Danny Lloyd for 'The Shining', and he worked closely with actor R. Lee Ermey during the production of 'Full Metal Jakcet'.  Vitali also plays the character of Red Cloak in Kubrick's final film 'Eyes Wide Shut'.


MALCOLM MCDOWELL

McDowell landed the role of a lifetime with Alex in 'A Clockwork Orange'.  After creating one of the towering performances in the history of cinema, McDoweel became one of the most revered actors in the industry, delivering equally unforgettable performances in films like 'If...' and Robert's Altman's 'The Company'.


NEIL LABUTE

LaBute is the tremendously talented and controversial writer/director of 'In the Company of Men', 'Your Friends and Neighbors', 'Nurse Betty', 'The Shape of Things' and 'Lakeview Terrace'. Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon' is one of his favorite films.


GARRETT BROWN

One of the great cinematic innovators, Brown was called upon to operate his new and revolutionary invention - the Steadicam - during the shooting of 'The Shining'.  Throughout the process, Brown gained invaluable insights into Kubrick's meticulous and precise technical demands


VINCENT LoBRUTTO

LoBrutto authored the first full-length biography of Stanley Kubrick in his remarkable work 'Stanley Kubrick: A Biography', for which he interviewed more than 70 of Kubrick's friends, collaborators and admirers.  LoBrutto recently penned a biography of Martin Scorsese, and is currently developing a similar treatment of director Ridley Scott.


MARIO FALSETTO

Falsetto is a professor of cinema studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where he utilizies his impressive areas of expertise in contemporary American Cinema; experimental film; independent narrative film; the films of Stanley Kubrick, Nicolas Roeg, Stan Brakhage, Federico Fellini, Terence Davies, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, and John Cassavetes; as well as contemporary film theory and aesthetics. He is the author of 'Perspectives on Stanley Kubrick' and 'Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis'.


RANDY RASMUSSEN

Rasmussen is the author of 'Stanley Kubrick: 7 Films Analyzed', an intensive, scene-by-scene analysis of Kubrick's most mature work-seven meticulously wrought films, from Dr. Strangelove to Eyes Wide Shut. He has also authored a similar exploration on the films of Orson Welles.


KEITH UHLICH

Uhlich is the editor of The House Next Door, where he submits insightful film criticism as well. He is also a staff film writer for Time Out New York.


RICHARD ANDERSON

In his long and distinguished career, Anderson has acted alongside the masters of the art form, including Spencer Tracy, Laurence Olivier and Kirk Douglas.  He portrayed Maj. Saint-Auban in Kubrick's 'Paths of Glory'.  He is perhaps best known for his role as Oscar Goldman in the classic television series 'The Six Million Dollar Man'.


CURTIS TSUI

Tsui is a producer for The Criterion Collection, the renowned home entertainment company that specializes in the restoration of classic or obscure cinema.  Tsui recently produced the company's Blu-ray release of Kubrick's classic anti-war film 'Paths of Glory'.


LARRY SMITH

Smith worked as a chief electrician on 'Barry Lyndon', a gaffer on 'The Shining', and as the cinematographer of 'Eyes Wide Shut'.  In 2008, he photographed the critically acclaimed 2008 film 'Bronson'.


JULIENNE DAVIS

Davis played Amanda Curran in Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut', the mystery woman (and possible murder victim) who assists Tom Cruise's character in the film.  Davis also appeared in 'House of 9'.


STUART Y. MCDOUGAL

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.


DAN RICHTER

Richter played the pivotal role of Moonwatcher in Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey', and became an integral part of cinematic history with an iconic moment in the Dawn of Man sequence. Richter chronciled his '2001' experience in his book 'Moonwatcher's Memoir'.


PETER BISKIND

At one time the feature editor for Premiere magazine, Biskind has authored several acclaimed books on cinema, including 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls', 'Down and Dirty Pictures', and 'Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America'.


PETER HYAMS

Kubrick was a major influence on director and cinematographer Hyams, who has built a resume of terrific films, including 'Capricorn One', 'Running Scared', and '2010: The Year We Make Contact', the sequel to Kubrick's legendary '2001: A Space Odyssey'.


ANDY ARMSTRONG

Armstrong began his feature film career as an assistant director on Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon', then went on to similar duties on terrific films like 'The Dresser' and 'Hope and Glory'.  He is also a highly esteemed stunt coordinator, where he has worked in some of the most beloved films of the past 25 years.  His latest work in this capacity include the films 'Thor', 'The Green Hornet' and the new incarnation of 'Spiderman'.


BRIAN W. COOK

Cook served as the assistant director on Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon', 'The Shining' and 'Eyes Wide Shut', and would later go on to direct 'Color Me Kubrick' starring John Malkovich as Alan Conway, a man who posed as Kubrick during the production of his last film in order to gain social status.  As an assistant director, Cook has collaborated with filmmakers as diverse as Brian De Palma, Sean Penn and Michael Cimino.


ED SIKOV

Sikov is a film scholar and author who penned the insightful 'Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers'.


SHIRLEY DOUGLAS

One of the Canada's premier stage actors, Douglas began her career in the role of Mrs. Starch in Kubrick's 'Lolita'.


SHANE RIMMER

Rimmer played Captain Ace Owens in 'Dr. Strangelove', a member of the hapless air force squad led by Slim Pickens.  Rimmer has had a long and varied career in film and television with roles in iconic projects like 'Star Wars', 'Superman II', 'Reds', and the TV series 'Thunderbirds'.


ERICH KUERSTEN

Kuersten is an academic advisement counselor dean of the liberal arts and sciences program at Pratt University in Brooklyn.  He writes about film, music, and culture from a "gonzo-theoretical" perspective for sites like Acidemic and Bright Lights Film Journal.


R. BARTON PALMER

Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature, Professor of Film and Screenwriting, British Literature at Clemson University and the author of many books on literature and film.  He has written extensively about Kubrick's work, including an essay for Jerold Abrams' 'The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick'.

IAN WATSON

Watson collaborated with Kubrick for the better part of a year on the screen story for 'A.I.', which would eventually be directed by Steven Speilberg following Kubrick's death.  He is a renowned author of science fiction novels.


FAY MASTERSON

Masterson portrayed the character of Sally in Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut'.  She's deliviered a string of memorable performances both in film ('A Christmas Carol', 'The Quick and the Dead') and television (CSI: Miami, Sex and the Austen Girl).


BARRY KRUSCH

Krusch has written essays on everything from media and psychology to politics and the constitution.  His cinema writings have largely centered on the works of Stanley Kubrick, and can be found in his exhaustive ongoing analysis in the Kubrick FAQ, and in his newly released analysis of 'Eyes Wide Shut'.


STEVE MAMBER

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.


DANIEL SHAW

Professor Shaw is the managing editor of the Film and Philosophy journal, and serves as Chair of the philosophy department at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania. His examination of Kubrick's work, titled 'Nihilism and Freedom in the Films of Stanley Kubrick', appread in the book 'The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick'.


TIM KREIDER

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


BILL BLAKEMORE

Blakemore is an ABC News reporter who primarily covers the Catholic Church and global warming issues. In 1987, Blakemore penned a widely read and highly influential essay for the Washington Post on Kubrick's 'The Shining', where he observed the film's veiled preoccupation with the genocide of the American Indian.


TONY FREWIN

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'.  Frewin is also an acclaimed novelist.


DON BUCKLEY

After running the East Coast marketing division of Warner Bros. Pictures, Buckley co-founded Warner Bros. Online in 1996 and shortly after established WB's Interactive Marketing Division, which he headed through 2008.  In 2009, he founded THA.i, a full service digital marketing agency, a division of Terry Hines & Associates, serving such clients, among others, as CBS Films, Warner Bros. Pictures, IMAX, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Universal Studios, Millennium Media, Showtime and Warner Home Video. He lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Stanley Kubrick's old neighborhood. His collaborations with Kubrick include 'The Shining', 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'Eyes Wide Shut'.


ROBERT WATTS

Watts is best known for his producing duties on the 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones' films.  He began his career as a production manager on '2001: A Space Odyssey'.


PETER KRAMER

Kramer is a senior lecturer at the University of East Anglia.  He is the author of BFI Film Classic volume on '2001: A Space Odyssey'.


ROBERT CASTLE

Castle teaches History and Film Criticism at a small academy outside Trenton, NJ.  His articles on film have appeared in Bright Lights Film Journal, The Journal of Religion and Film, Metaphilm, 24 Frames Per Second, AugustCutter.com and Film Comment. 

ROBERT HORTON

Horton is a Settle-based film critic who listed 'Barry Lyndon' as his favorite film of 1975.  You can read his work on his blog titled The Crop Duster.

GLENN KENNY

Kenny was the esteemed critic of Premiere Magazine for many years before beginning his own blog at somecamerunning.typepad.com.  He now reviews films for MSN.

JAY WEIDNER

Jay Weidner is a renowned author, filmmaker and hermetic scholar. Considered to be a ‘modern-day Indiana Jones’ for his ongoing worldwide quests to find clues to mankind’s spiritual destiny via ancient societies and artifacts.  An acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Mr. Weidner is the President of Sacred Mysteries Productions. He theorized a possible hidden meaning of 'The Shining' involving a cover-up of the faked moon landings.


GEOFFREY COCKS

Geoffrey Cocks is Julian S. Rammelkamp Professor of History at Albion College in Michigan. A graduate of Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, he earned his Ph.D. in history at UCLA in 1975. He is the author of Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The Goring Institute and Treating Mind and Body; editor of The Curve of Life: Correspondence of Heinz Kohut; and co-editor of Psycho/History; German Professions, 1800-1950; Medicine and Modernity; and Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History. His influential book, The Wolf at the Door, explores the remarkable formal and substantive patterns of cinematic discourse on Germany and the Holocaust in Stanley Kubrick's films.
 

TONY MACKLIN

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. It's an excellent read for anyone who loves film.

TONY MAGISTRALE

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'.

TIM KIRK & RODNEY ASCHER

Filmmakers Kirk & Ascher recently completed a documentary exploring the various themes and theories associated with The Shining.  You can read more about their film at their official blog.

MATT REEVES

Mr. Reeves directed the films Cloverfield and Let Me In, and frequently speaks of the enduring influence of Kubrick's The Shining on the latter.

JOHN KRYSKO

Mr. Krysko is an avid Kubrick fan, film analyst, and host of The Silver Halide Show.

LIA BELDAM

Ms. Beldam played the young woman in the bathtub in The Shining, and has enjoyed a life-long career as a successful model.

JASON SANFORD

Mr. Sanford is the author of a number of short stories, essays, and articles. He is the winner of a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship and his stories have been published in magazines such as The Mississippi Review, Diagram, The Beloit Fiction Journal, Analog: Science Fiction and Fact, Interzone, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Pindeldyboz, and other places. He’s also published critical essays and book reviews in places like The New York Review of Science Fiction, The Pedestal Magazine, and The Fix Short Fiction Review. His website is www.jasonsanford.com.


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