Stanley Kubrick: The Playboy Interview (50 Years of the Playboy Interview) by Stanley Kubrick


Stanley Kubrick: The Playboy Interview (50 Years of the Playboy Interview)
Title : Stanley Kubrick: The Playboy Interview (50 Years of the Playboy Interview)
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Language : English
Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 29
Publication : First published September 25, 2012

In mid-1962, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was given a partial transcript of an interview with Miles Davis. It covered jazz, of course, but it also included Davis’s ruminations on race, politics and culture. Fascinated, Hef sent the writer—future Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Alex Haley, an unknown at the time—back to glean even more opinion and insight from Davis. The resulting exchange, published in the September 1962 issue, became the first official Playboy Interview and kicked off a remarkable run of public inquisition that continues today—and that has featured just about every cultural titan of the last half century.
To celebrate the Interview’s 50th anniversary, the editors of Playboy have culled 50 of its most (in)famous Interviews and will publish them over the course of 50 weekdays (from September 4, 2012 to November 12, 2012) via Amazon’s Kindle Direct platform. Here is the interview with the film director Stanley Kubrick from the September 1968 issue.

Stanley Kubrick: The Playboy Interview (50 Years of the Playboy Interview) Reviews

  • Christopher (Donut)

    Slightly disappointing. Almost no talk about movies, just a lot of bull-session talk about extra-terrestrial life, nuclear war (well, ...), the future, the intelligence of dolphins:


    [...] Of course, if the dolphins are really intelligent, theirs is obviously a nontechnological culture, since without an opposable thumb, they could never create artifacts. Their intelligence might also be on a totally different order than man’s, which could make communication additionally difficult. Dr. Lilly has written that “It is probable that their intelligence is comparable to ours, though in a very strange fashion…they may have a new class of large brain so dissimilar to ours that we cannot within our lifetime possibly understand its mental processes.” Their culture may be totally devoted to creating works of poetry or devising abstract mathematical concepts, and they could conceivably share a telepathic communication to supplement their high-frequency underwater language.


    Given that this was in 1968, on the heels of the success of 2001: A Space Odyssey(and Dr. Strangelove), it's understandable why the conversation steered toward such subjects- two things Kubrick took for granted would be around in 2001, video phones, and the USSR.

    We, almost as beyond 2001 as 2001 was beyond 1968, can imagine more interesting topics to discuss with Mr. K.

  • Raul Duarte

    “Stanley Kubrick: The Playboy Interview (50 Years of the Playboy Interview)" es una entrevista recopilada por la revista de Playboy debido a su 50 aniversario.

    La entrevista comienza de manera interesante, entre otras cosas hablan de la película de 2001 odisea en el espacio, película más reciente de Kubrick al momento de hacerse la entrevista.

    Personalmente sentí que la mejor parte fueron las primeras 5 páginas, después de eso la entrevista toca temas de aliens y todo tipo de cosas que si bien hablan de Kubrick, poco tienen que ver con el cine, no es que esté mala la entrevista, pero me terminó aburriendo, hay otras entrevistas de Kubrick más interesantes.


    Lo recomiendo si:

    -Te gusta Kubrick.

    -Quieres saber la opinión de Kubrick del espacio.

    -Quieres saber más de 2001 odisea en el espacio.

    Solo para fans de Kubrick.

  • Marx

    There is a god

  • Wolfzone

    FUCKING GENIUS.