65. Full Metal Jacket with Ken Shane

65. Full Metal Jacket with Ken Shane

Author: The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society August 30, 2023 Duration: 1:18:54
Ken Shane was born in London, England in the 1960s. He has been an assistant director for almost 40 years, and worked as a production manager during that time as well.  One of Ken’s first jobs was working for George Lucas on a little box office flop in 1980 called The Empire Strikes Back. He continued working straight on from that time, and has over 100 film and TV productions on his resume. In 1985 he worked with Tobe Hooper on the insanely over-the-top space vampire classic Lifeforce as well as on Ridley Scott’s Legend. He was busy as well in 1987, working on Superman 4: The Quest For Peace, John Boorman’s Hope And Glory, and Steven Spielberg’s Empire Of The Sun. He went on to work on Tim Burton’s Batman in 1989. He would work with Burton again on 1999’s Sleepy Hollow, but not before being Second Unit Assistant Director on David Fincher’s criminally underrated debut, Alien3. Ken served as AD on HBO’s Band Of Brothers in 2001, working with Spielberg again, and Tom Hanks.  Ken Shane Has worked with everyone from Tom Cruise to Meryl Streep, to Sir John Gielgud, Al Pacino, Gene Hackman, Christian Bale, Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Johnny Depp, to Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Walken and beyond.  He moved to Vancouver, Canada in 2004, and has continued to work steadily in the Canadian film industry, but what has this got to do with Stanley Kubrick? Well, Ken Shane was 3rd Assistant Director on Kubrick’s antiwar masterpiece, Full Metal Jacket. So now you will hear Ken talking about working with Kubrick, and other areas of his long career in the movie biz. Recorded: 6th July 2020 Hosted by Jason Furlong / Written by Stephen Rigg and Jason Furlong / Theme and original music written and performed by Jason Furlong / Produced and edited by Stephen Rigg Please support us at : www.patreon.com/user?u=67509795 Kubrick’s Universe Podcast (KUP) - Facebook Page : www.facebook.com/KubricksUniverse Kubrick's Universe Podcast (KUP) - Youtube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnGFwtfJ5IuGAGpbrKjMQ9g The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society (SKAS) - Facebook Group : www.facebook.com/groups/TSKAS/ The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society (SKAS) - YouTube Channel : www.youtube.com/c/TheStanleyKubrickAppreciationSociety1 The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society (SKAS) - Twitter Page : https://twitter.com/KubrickAS Contact : stephenrigg.skas@gmail.com  

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39. Full Metal Jacket with Adrian Bush [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:40:38
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Duration: 1:37:08
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37. Before and Into 2001: A Space Odyssey with Keir Dullea [Part 1] [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:14:07
In this first part, Keir Dullea talks with us about how he came to work on 2001: A Space Odyssey, meeting Stanley Kubrick for the first time, his experiences on the set, and how it altered the trajectory of his career an…
36. Leon Vitali meets SKAS [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:19:18
We surprised several of our members of The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society by hooking them up with legendary Filmworker and long-time Kubrick assistant, Leon Vitali. As usual, Leon was absolutely wonderful as he spo…
35. The 21st Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s Passing [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:30
Stanley Kubrick passed in March 1999. In the days following Kubrick's death many people wrote messages on various message boards to express their feelings about the awful news. Some of the following comments were on a Pr…
34. After Kubrick: A Filmmaker’s Legacy with Jeremi Szaniawski [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:18:11
Our guest is Professor Jeremi Szaniawski, who is the editor of the new book “After Kubrick: A Filmmaker’s Legacy," published by Bloomsbury and released on Feb 20th, 2020. Jeremi received a PhD from Yale University and is…
33. The Early Days... Stanley and Me with Gerald Fried [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:45
This is the first part of our interview with Gerald Fried. We spoke to him in late 2018, when he was just 90 years young. Gerald Fried, a native New Yorker, has scored almost 300 films and television shows in a career sp…
31. Kubrick’s Universe End-of-Year Round-Up Christmas 2019 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:41:23
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