Why “2001: A Space Odyssey” Remains a Timeless Classic
12/12/2024
Fifty-six years ago, on December 12, 2001: A Space Odyssey was released.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey – Fantastic Journey
08/08/2021
Kubrick has, in one big jump, discovered new possibilities for the screen image. He took on a large challenge, and has met it commendably.
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.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – by James Verniere
21/04/2020
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) remains Kubrick’s crowning, confounding achievement. Homeric sci-fi film, conceptual artwork, and dopeheads’ intergalactic joyride, 2001 pushed the envelope of film at a time when Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music ruled the box office.
Pauline Kael: Trash, Art, and The Movies
23/01/2020
There is so much talk now about the art of the film that we may be in danger of forgetting that most of the movies we enjoy are not works of art.
2001: Odissea nello Spazio (2001: A Space Odissey, 1968) – Recensione di Tullio Kezich
08/12/2019
2001: Odissea nello spazio abbraccia un arco di oltre un milione d’anni, dall’alba dell’uomo al primo volo verso Giove. Kubrick ha avuto al fianco Arthur C. Clarke, un autore di fantascienza che è anche scienziato, e gli ha chiesto di guidarlo attraverso quelle che una felice formula editoriale ha definito «le meraviglie del possibile».
2001: Odissea nello spazio – Recensione di Giacomo Gambetti [Bianco e Nero]
23/11/2019
2001: Odissea nello spazio non somiglia a nessun film di fantascienza o di fantapolitica finora realizzato. Perché non è un film di fantascienza in nessun senso del termine, ma semplicemente un discorso sull’uomo, l’uomo di sempre.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Review by Bosley Crowther
14/11/2019
by Bosley Crowther In light of the phenomenal popularity of George Lukas’ 1977 Star Wars, which seems to have done
2001: L’odyssée de l’espace (1968) – Revue par Jacques Goimard [Fiction]
22/07/2019
D’avance, nous savions que ce serait un événement. Parce que les dix millions de dollars dépensés garantissaient la qualité du spectacle et nous promettaient ce récital d’effets spéciaux, cette fête de l’imaginaire, ce plongeon dans l’inconnu dont le cinéma de SF nous frustre régulièrement.
INTELLIGENT DESIGN: THE CREATION OF STANLEY KUBRICK‘S 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
21/07/2019
Stanley Kubrick was determined the design for his ‘definitive attempt’ at the science-fiction film should represent a decisive break with Hollywood norms — and who better to enlist to his cause than a pair of spacecraft consultants poached from the very heart of NASA itself?
2001: A Space Odyssey – Review by Robert O’Meara [Screen]
21/07/2019
These are four key scenes from the main sections of 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film that can be considered, with some reservations, a cinematic milestone in both the technical achievement and in its aesthetic exposition.
2001: Odissea nello spazio [Riedizione] | Rassegna stampa italiana
30/03/2019
Nell’anniversario della morte di Stanley Kubrick, torna nei cinema nella versione restaurata uno dei suoi capolavori, 2001: Odissea nello spazio
2001: A Space Odyssey – Review by John Simon [The New Leader]
07/08/2018
2001: A Space Odyssey is fascinating when it concentrates on apes or machines, and dreadful when it deals with the in-betweens: humans. For all its lively visual and mechanical spectacle, this is a kind of space-Spartacus and, more pretentious still, a shaggy God story.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY: PLANS THAT GO WRONG – Review by Philip French
22/03/2018
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is remarkable on a number of counts. Firstly, it is perhaps the first multi-million-dollar supercolossal movie since D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance fifty years ago which can genuinely be regarded as the work of one man.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY – Review by John Hofsess
08/03/2018
2001 no less than Dr. Strangelove is an apocalyptic vision: it i is an alternate future but no less pessimistic. Beneath its austerely beautiful surface an alarm is sounded for us to examine a problem of which Dr. Strangelove was a pronounced symptom: the possibility that man is as much at the mercy of his own artifacts as ever he was of the forces of nature.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY – Reviews by Louise Sweeney and John Allen [The Christian Science Monitor]
08/03/2018
Louise Sweeney, New York-based film critic for The Christian Science Monitor, wrote a generally favorable review following the New York premiere of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Boston staff critic John Allen’s full-page review appeared in the Monitor a month later and M-G-M reprinted it as an ad in a Sunday edition of The New York Times.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY – Review by Charles Champlin [The Los Angeles Times]
08/03/2018
Any annoyance over the ending—if indeed it is widely felt—cannot really compromise Kubrick’s epic achievement, his mastery of the techniques of screen sight and screen sound to create impact and illusion.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY – The Harvard Crimson Review
06/03/2018
After we have seen a stewardess walk up a wall and across the ceiling early in the film, we no longer question similar amazements and accept Kubrick’s new world without question. The credibility of the special effects established, we can suspend disbelief, to use a justifiable cliche, and revel in the beauty and imagination of Kubrick/Clarke’s space.
2001: A Space Odyssey: Douglas Trumbull On Stanley Kubrick’s Science Fiction Epic – by Dan Persons
01/03/2018
With 2001, we learned the real depth and mass of space, and discovered that “The Ultimate Trip” was going to be a cold, lonely one—an adventure more daunting to the psyche than the body.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY – THE PROLOGUE INTERVIEWS
23/02/2018
Kubrick’s original plan was to open 2001 with a ten-minute prologue (35mm film, black and white) — edited interviews on extraterrestrial possibilities with experts on space, theology, chemistry, biology, astronomy.
Kubrick says that he decided after the first screening of 2001 for M-G-M executives, in Culver City, California, that it wasn’t a good idea to open 2001 with a prologue, and it was eliminated immediately.
BEYOND THE STARS – by Jeremy Bernstein
21/02/2018
We are happy to report, for the benefit of science-fiction buffs—who have long felt that, at its best, science fiction is a splendid medium for conveying the poetry and wonder of science—that there will soon be a movie for them. We have this from none other than the two authors of the movie, which is to be called Journey Beyond the Stars—Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.
2001: A Space Odyssey: Lost in the Stars – Review by Stanley Kauffmann
08/02/2018
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey took five years and $10 million to make, and it’s easy to see where the time and the money have gone. It’s less easy to understand how, for five years, Kubrick managed to concentrate on his ingenuity and ignore his talent.
2001, un’odissea al parallelepipedo | Recensione di Ennio Flaiano
08/01/2018
L’ironia di Kubrick resta sempre fredda, il suo umorismo sereno, forse perciò più toccante. Si limita a prospettare l’eccezionale come raggiunto e quindi divenuto usuale, quotidiano, fine a se stesso.
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.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) – REVIEWS BY ANDREW SARRIS
04/12/2017
Andrew Sarris famously panned Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, then reversed himself after seeing it under the influence.
2001: A Space Odyssey | Review by Dilys Powell
09/08/2017
Dilys Powell reviews ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ by Stanley Kubrick
2001: FUORI NELLO SPAZIO MA DENTRO LA VITA
02/06/2017
2001: IL FILM DI STANLEY KUBRICK Il viaggio interplanetario è un viaggio biologico di Lino Curci Sono giorni di scienza,
‘The Awful Power’: John Updike’s Use of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in Rabbit Redux
09/04/2017
In the following essay, DeBellis asserts that John Updike’s references to 2001: A Space Odyssey in Rabbit Redux underline the major thematic concerns in the novel.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY – CATCHER IN THE MILKY-WAY
03/02/2017
Paul Schrader reviews Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Published in ‘Spectacle’, September 13, 1968
SENTINEL OF ETERNITY (1951) by Arthur C. Clarke
28/01/2017
Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “Sentinel of Eternity”, published in 1951 , which was used as a starting point for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey