ÜBER DIESE EPISODE
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is listening to a deep dive into the script, the history, the pre-production, and the ultimate unmaking of Stanley Kubrick’s Unmade Napoleon Film.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
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Each episode of “The Director Dossiers” is a mega deep dive into film history that explores an influential director’s entire career, or focuses on a single movie in their filmography.
The show is hosted by Johnny Cruz, an award-winning screenwriter who has written & directed two feature films alongside Danny Barker, who is a filmmaker and musician in the band Great Oblivion, two-time nominees at the Asbury Park Music Awards.
Together, Johnny and Danny blend insightful, in-depth film discussion with a relaxed, hang-out style atmosphere.
Watch on Spotify and listen on Apple Podcasts:
https://linktr.ee/TheDirectorDossiers
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 — Intro
01:50 — Researching Napoleon
31:59 — Writing Napoleon
40:56 — The Script for Napoleon
42:36 — The Provincial Youth
57:05 — 1789 - Revolution
1:28:14 — The First Italian Campaign
1:35:26 — Egypt
2:03:53 — Coup d’état
2:10:45 — Empire
2:33:57 — The Fall
2:48:06 — Defeat
3:17:25 — Rant of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon
3:21:42 — Defeat Cont’d
3:23:33 — Invasion of France
3:37:52 — Elba
4:05:59 — St. Helena
4:26:00 — Gladiator II Ratings
4:27:21 — The Pre-Production of Napoleon
4:59:09 — Napoleon in Film
5:16:40 — The Unmaking of Napoleon
5:44:37 — Louis XVIII was dumb
5:48:20 — Thanks for watching!
5:51:12 — Pressing On
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Book Recommendations:
Napoleon by Flex Markham
Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made by Taschen
Stanley Kubrick by Vincent Lubrutto
Kubrick: An Odyssey by Robert P. Kolker & Nathan Abrams
The Stanley Kubrick Archives edited by Alison Castle
Stanley Kubrick and Me: Thirty Years at his Side by Emilio D’Alessandro
Stanley Kubrick: A Life by David Mikics
Stanley Kubrick: Interviews by Gene D. Phillips
Kubrick by Michael Herr
Stanley Kubrick: The Complete Films by Paul Duncan
Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film. by Robert P. Kolker & Nathan Abrams
Stanley Kubrick by John Baxter
