![]() Kubrick weds his stunning imagery to a beautiful soundtrack and creates something that can only be cinema.” John Bleasdale “A space opera of the most ambitious kind. “It took the art of film somewhere it had never been before, and nothing has gone anywhere near it since.” Eric Hynes ![]() It does that with so much majesty, so much intrigue, yet it manages to go into a very deep philosophical, even spiritual, personal space.” Bedatri Choudhury “2001: A Space Odyssey created a vocabulary from a vacuum there was nothing like it before or after. “Human evolution, both physical and spiritual, translated into confoundingly hypnotic imagery.” Alan Mattli “Kubrick’s epic contemplation on the nature and origins of humanity remains one of cinema’s greatest technical feats, and one of its most poetic and awe-inspiring.” Stuart Brown It’s not even certain if the film is optimistic or despairing (yet colourful).” David Cairns The great rationalist suddenly blasts us off into a psychedelic experience which doesn’t yield fully to reason. It’s stately, bold, astonishingly beautiful. By acting, arrogantly, as if nobody had ever made a really good science-fiction film before, Kubrick solves all the genre’s problems methodically but also pushes it into epic, mythic, spiritual terrain. ![]() “‘If Kubrick could get rid of the human element, he could make the perfect film,’ joked Malcolm McDowell. A ‘match cut’ which quickly replaces a bone thrown upwards by an ape with a similarly shaped spaceship floating through space, thereby compressing millennia of human evolution, is justly celebrated. 2001 revolutionised the depiction of the cosmos on film, at the same time – with the HAL-9000 computer that fatally malfunctions during a mission to Jupiter – sounding a warning about unbridled technological advance.īeginning with primordial apes discovering tools and climaxing with astronaut David Bowman (Keir Dullea) travelling beyond the limits of the known universe, Kubrick’s film was an intellectual (and psychedelic) event in the late 1960s. A year before the first moon landing, Stanley Kubrick envisioned an outer space where vast spacecraft revolve weightlessly to the strains of Johann Strauss’s Blue Danube waltz.
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