Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns and Sergio Leone with Christopher Frayling and Samira Ahmed. They also look at the film worlds of Stanley Kubrick as an exhibition runs at London's Design Museum. Plus magic, mind games and the role of the magician's assistant. New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton and Gustav Kuhn from Goldsmiths, University of London bring their conjuring tricks into the studio.
You can hear Christopher Frayling with Brian Cox and the actors Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood discussing Kubrick's 2001 here https://bbc.in/2H8q76p
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition runs to 15th September 2019 at the Design Museum in London.
Smoke and Mirrors: The Psychology of Magic runs at the Wellcome Collection in London until 15th September 2019 including performances of magic by Dr Gustav Kuhn and a Friday Late on May 10th.
Experiencing the Impossible by Gustav Kuhn is published by MIT Press.
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| 1:29.6 | You know, as I look around Studio 50A in Broadcasting House and observe the coffee stains on the table |
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| 1:46.0 | some of your actual ledger domain and prestidigitation. There are two people skilled in the art |
| 1:52.0 | that conceals with me around the microphone. You might remember the magician and cognitive |
| 1:57.1 | psychologist Gustav Kuhn when he was on the program last year to talk about |
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