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Complete Total Final Annihilating Artistic Control
Complete Total Final Annihilating Artistic Control
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Our seventh season is Stanley, an 11-episode exploration of Stanley Kubrick created in partnership with Criterion. Stanley traces Kubrick’s journey from a curious Bronx teenager, first inspired by a camera gifted to him by his father, to a visionary director who redefined the art of filmmaking. Across his career, Kubrick pushed boundaries, challenged censorship, and pursued an uncompromising level of creative control that shaped landmark films including Lolita, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut. Stanley starts September 24.
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- Complete Total Final Annihilating Artistic Control · 1 h 14 min · Säsong 7 Avsnitt 7Stanley experiences a career low when his newest movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, has mass walkouts during its premiere. But 2001 quickly builds an audience, and Stanley becomes a…
- That Unbearable Feeling · 55 min · Säsong 7 Avsnitt 6Channeling his own growing anxiety, Stanley realizes that the only way to make a movie about nuclear war is to make it a comedy. Calling it Dr. Strangelove, Stanley pushes his…
- How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Lolita? · 53 min · Säsong 7 Avsnitt 5Stanley adapts the most shocking book of its time, a purported love story between a middle-aged man and a 12 year-old girl named Lolita. To escape censors, Stanley shoots the…
- A Talented Shit · 55 min · Säsong 7 Avsnitt 4Kirk Douglas offers Stanley a massive paycheck to take over directing a historical epic called Spartacus. Against his better judgment, Stanley agrees, and gets roped into one of…
- The Breakout · 54 min · Säsong 7 Avsnitt 3Stanley heads to Hollywood to direct The Killing, a crime caper with a famous cast and a confusing storyline. The film tanks at the box office but attracts the attention of movie…
- The Opening Gambit · 46 min · Säsong 7 Avsnitt 2Stanley takes his first crack at filmmaking, starting with shorts and moving up to low-budget independent features. His family bankrolls his productions and his friends act as…
- The Bronx Kid · 50 min · Säsong 7 Avsnitt 1Stanley Kubrick grows up rooting for the Yankees, playing drums, and watching World War II newsreels at the local movie theater. At age 13, his father gifts him his first camera…
- Season 7 Trailer 3: Stanley · 2 min · Säsong 7Actor Sterling Hayden details the worst day of his life, which occurred on the set of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb…
- Season 7 Trailer 2: Stanley · 2 min · Säsong 7Katharina Kubrick recalls life at home with her famous father, where music was a constant presence. Stanley, the new season of The Plot Thickens, starts September 24. Learn more…
- Season 7 Trailer: Stanley · 2 min · Säsong 7Steven Spielberg tells Ben Mankiewicz about the deal he struck with Stanley Kubrick for information about a famous cut scene from Dr. Strangelove. Stanley, an eleven-episode…
- Ben Answers Your Cleopatra Questions · 41 min · Säsong 6Ben Mankiewicz received hundreds of voicemails about Cleopatra, and now he's answering them! Well, as many of them as he can. In this special bonus episode, Ben weighs in on the…
- Ask Ben Your Cleopatra Questions! · 1 min · Säsong 6We’re doing our first-ever Q&A bonus episode, and we want your questions! Call 404-885-0013 to leave a voicemail for Ben. You can ask about Cleopatra, Ben's great-uncle Joe…
- Wildly Successful and Much Maligned · 47 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 6The fate of 20th Century Fox hangs in the balance as Cleopatra premieres. Critics and audiences weigh in, Elizabeth and Richard face momentous life decisions, and Joe sinks into…
- Mankiewicz vs. Zanuck · 46 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 5Joe’s body reaches its breaking point, and he’s forced to film the last few scenes from a wheelchair. But when production wraps, Fox installs a new studio head, Darryl F. Zanuck…
- Le Scandale · 47 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 4Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s love affair becomes a tabloid sensation. Richard drinks and Elizabeth cries, they fight and make up, all while trying to keep the affair…
- The Girl is on Salary · 51 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 3Joe Mankiewicz decides to recast two leading men and hires Richard Burton and Rex Harrison – major talents who turn out to be major headaches. He also moves filming to a new…
- Joe · 57 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 2While Elizabeth Taylor fights for her life in a London hospital, Joe Mankiewicz begins to grapple with the movie he’s inherited. The script is dreadful, the sets are grotesque…
- London Slog · 51 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 120th Century Fox pays Elizabeth Taylor a record-breaking salary to play Cleopatra, then tries to save money by filming the movie in England. That turns out to be a disastrous…
- Season 6 Trailer: Cleopatra · 4 min · Säsong 6His studio was collapsing. His budget was skyrocketing. And his two stars were making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Those were just some of the headaches facing Joseph L…
- The Legend · 1 h 2 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 7After being removed from a film and ruining his friendship with Henry Fonda, John Ford begins to openly challenge his previous work. He deconstructs the Western and, for the…
- The Mythmaker · 50 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 6At the height of his powers, John Ford directs his masterpiece, an anti-racist Western called The Searchers. It’s a movie of contradictions: John Wayne plays the hero, but he's…
- Monument Valley · 53 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 5After D-Day, Ford goes on a historic bender then heads home... not to Hollywood but to Monument Valley, a secluded land with incredible scenery. There, he creates his own…
- The Search · 51 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 4This week, Ben traces the mystery of John Ford's missing D-Day documentary. The one time Ford talked about it, he claimed it was buried in a government film vault, too disturbing…
- The Commander · 44 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 3Ford is finally in the military and his first assignment is… to make a sex ed film for soldiers! Soon he sees real combat and is injured while filming the battle of Midway. He’s…
- The Araner · 55 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 2John Ford buys a yacht, where he cavorts, drinks and vacations. But he also keeps an eye on the looming threat in Europe, and uses his new vessel to enlist in the Naval Reserve…
- Go West, Young Man · 52 min · Säsong 5 Avsnitt 1John Ford was born in Maine as Sean Aloysius O’Feeney… or so he says. His birth records say differently, and it would not be the last time he changes his name. As a child, he…
- Season 5 Trailer: Decoding John Ford · 5 min · Säsong 5Meet John Ford, the curmudgeon with an eyepatch who just happened to be the greatest filmmaker of the 20th Century. Ford was a bully and a drunk who ruled Hollywood for five…
- Introducing: Talking Pictures from TCM and Max · 53 minWhile we're hard at work on the next season of The Plot Thickens, we're excited to share Ben Mankiewicz's new podcast, Talking Pictures. The first guest on Talking Pictures is…
- From American Masters: Creative Spark: John Waters on the Fine Art of Bad Taste · 19 minWe’re sharing a bonus episode from our friends at American Masters: Creative Spark, the PBS podcast that goes in-depth with an iconic artist about the creation of a single work…
- Bonus Episode: Donald Bogle and Racquel Gates · 30 min · Säsong 4Film scholars Racquel Gates and Donald Bogle detail the rise and fall of Blaxploitation, and how Pam Grier transcended the genre and stayed iconic for decades afterwards. Learn…
- Bonus Episode: Bob Minor & Jadie David · 18 min · Säsong 4Legendary stunt performers Jadie David and Bob Minor go in-depth about their most dangerous stunts, working with Pam Grier, and breaking through as Black stuntpeople in the early…
- Bonus Episode: Jacqueline Stewart · 34 min · Säsong 4Ben Mankiewicz speaks to TCM host and Director and President of The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Jacqueline Stewart about Pam Grier's star image, the legacy of…
- Bonus Episode: Quentin Tarantino · 37 min · Säsong 4More from Ben Mankiewicz’s interview with Quentin Tarantino, who speaks about making Jackie Brown, enjoying Blaxploitation, and first seeing Pam when he was an impressionable 10…
- Ms. Jackie Brown · 51 min · Säsong 4 Avsnitt 7After receiving a devastating diagnosis, Pam leaves Hollywood and heads home to Colorado. But she’s lured back into the spotlight when the hottest director in Hollywood gives her…
- I’m Gonna Die For Paul Newman · 53 min · Säsong 4 Avsnitt 6Pam finds love on a movie set when she’s cast opposite superstar comedian Richard Pryor. She sets out to change Richard’s self-destructive ways, and succeeds – for a little…
- Looking Good · 42 min · Säsong 4 Avsnitt 5As the Blaxploitation craze comes to an end, Pam fights for better roles and hobnobs with the biggest names in showbiz. She meets the love of her life, a hot young comedian named…
- Bonus: Pam Grier in Italy · 10 min · Säsong 4 Avsnitt 4Pam is almost killed when a horse goes wild on the set of a gladiator movie. But instead of losing her life, she meets a new friend, who just happens to be one of the most famous…
- The Queen of Blaxploitation · 49 min · Säsong 4 Avsnitt 4Pam’s career hits new heights as Black-themed movies take the country by storm. She stars in four low-budget films in the span of one year, including two bonafide hits: Coffy and…
- An Actor Prepares · 50 min · Säsong 4 Avsnitt 3Pam heads to the Philippines to star in a pair of “women in prison” movies, where she endures volatile weather, skimpy costumes, and cobra encounters. She studies acting and…
- I'm Not From Here · 44 min · Säsong 4 Avsnitt 2Newly arrived in Los Angeles, Pam learns underground filmmaking at UCLA and sings backup for some of the biggest musical acts of the 60s. She also has her first serious romance…
- The Black West · 48 min · Säsong 4 Avsnitt 1Growing up in Colorado, young Pam Grier endures racism and trauma, but finds solace in horses and the beautiful countryside. As a teen, she visits Los Angeles for the first time…
- Season 4 Trailer: Here Comes Pam · 5 min · Säsong 4This is the story of Pam Grier as only she can tell it. Her sudden stardom, her iconic roles, her fights against the system. It’s a story of bravery, both onscreen and off. It’s…
- From Revisionist History: Star Struck · 39 minWe’re sharing a bonus episode from our friends at Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things misunderstood and overlooked. This season, Malcolm’s obsessed with…
- Bonus Episode: J.K. Simmons · 25 min · Säsong 3Ben Mankiewicz speaks with the Oscar-winning actor about playing William Frawley in Being the Ricardos, and how Frawley's tumultuous relationship with Vivian Vance informed the…
- Bonus Episode: Carol Burnett, Kate Flannery and Kate Micucci · 33 min · Säsong 3Ben Mankiewicz speaks to three celebrity fans about how they were influenced by Lucille Ball, Lucy’s incredible talent for physical comedy, and why I Love Lucy is still beloved…
- Bonus Episode: Aaron Sorkin · 32 min · Säsong 3Ben Mankiewicz speaks to Aaron Sorkin, the writer-director of Being the Ricardos, about what drew him to Lucy’s story, Lucy and Desi’s intense relationship, and the danger they…
- Bonus Episode: Lucie Arnaz · 26 min · Säsong 3More from Ben Mankiewicz's fascinating interview with Lucie Arnaz, who speaks about working with her mom, growing up on the RKO studio lot, and what made I Love Lucy special…
- Twilight · 58 min · Säsong 3 Avsnitt 10Lucy sinks into a depression after the failure of her newest show and becomes a reclusive, fiercely competitive backgammon player. Yet she's still revered, and following a…
- Boss Lady · 48 min · Säsong 3 Avsnitt 9Escaping Hollywood after her split, Lucy heads east for a chance to star on Broadway. There she meets a new man, a Borscht Belt comedian with a bad toupee and even worse business…
- The End of Desilu · 55 min · Säsong 3 Avsnitt 8Lucy and Desi's studio expands as they buy the RKO lot and produce new shows under the Desilu banner. The strain of running an empire takes its toll, and Desi falls further into…
