2001: A Space Odyssey | Review by Penelope Gilliatt
23/10/2016
I think Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is some sort of great film, and an unforgettable endeavor.
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2001: A Space Odyssey – Kubrick’s Cosmos
08/08/2016
Stanley Kubrick’s potentially majestic myth about man’s first encounter with a higher life form than his own dwindles into a whimsical space operetta, then frantically inflates itself again for a surreal climax in which the imagery is just obscure enough to be annoying, just precise enough to be banal.
The Odyssey of Stanley Kubrick: Part 3: Toward the Infinite—2001
15/12/2020
The strength of 2001 is that it confronts our civilization with an alien one while preserving the mystery of their encounter. The black monolith appears both as a threat and as a sign of hope at three decisive moments in man’s evolution.
READING STANLEY KUBRICK: A THEOLOGICAL ODYSSEY
22/04/2020
Kubrick’s films should be ‘read’ as opposed to ‘viewed’. Too often, the notion of film as something we view rather than read results in a great loss of riches that film by directors such as Kubrick have to offer.
2001: KUBRICK IN SPACE – Essay by Stephen Mamber
21/12/2017
The pretentiousness of 2001: A Space Odyssey has been a considerable obstacle to appreciating its status as masterpiece. The collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke and Kubrick’s own statements about the film have obviously obscured how deeply it connects to the rest of his work.
Alien (1979): A Gothic Set in Space – Review by Vincent Canby
09/05/2017
Vincent Canby reviews Ridley Scott Si-Fi movie ‘Alien’ (1979). Published in The New York Times, May 25, 1982
BODIES IN SPACE: FILM AS CARNAL KNOWLEDGE – by Annette Michelson
10/01/2017
Annette Michelson in her famous 1969 essay, Bodies in Space: Film as ‘Carnal Knowledge’ in which she explored the phenomenal impact of 2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A PHILOSOPHICAL ODYSSEY – by Kevin L. Stoehr
30/12/2016
In 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) we are invited by director Stanley Kubrick to experience a mesmerizing yet also alienating form of sensory liberation, as paradoxical as such an experience may at first sound.
2001: ODISSEA NELLO SPAZIO: Recensione di Fernaldo di Giammatteo
20/11/2016
Il caso di 2001: A Space Odyssey, film di enorme successo e di enorme sfortuna, è uno dei più clamorosi. Tanti furono i sofismi che ne accolsero l’uscita da indurre lo stesso Stanley Kubrick a fornire, un poco infastidito, la sua semplice spiegazione
A SKELETON KEY TO 2001 – by Don Daniels [Sight and Sound]
20/11/2016
The young cult for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey now has its HolyWrit. The second 70 mm. release of the movie was accompanied by a collection entitled The Making of Kubrick’s ‘2001’ and edited, with the cooperation of the director, by Jerome Agel.