the Kubrick series
reporter 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.
Steadicam inventor 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.
author 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.
author 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.
professor 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', appeared in the book The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick.
author 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.
critic 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.
Filmmakers Rodney Ascher & Tim Kirk
Producer Tim Kirk & director Rodney Ascher are the creative team behind the acclaimed documentary Room 237, which explores the various themes and theories associated with The Shining. The interview was conducted during pre-production on that film.
director jay weidner
Jay Weidner is a renowned author, filmmaker and hermetic scholar. 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.
writer john fell ryan
Ryan is the writer and editor of a blog devoted to visual analysis and image cataloging of The Shining called KDK12. He produced screenings of The Shining Forwards and Backwards, Simultaneously, Superimposed, a digital re-edit of the film.