2001 Space Odyssey(Blu-ray) (1968)

"...an overwhelming visual experience...  Box Office Magazine
"...[an] intelligent attempt at exploring human development...  Brian Webster, Apollo Leisure Guide
"Maintains its artistic magnificence after more than 30 years.  Desson Thomson, The Washington Post
"A masterpiece that can still leave you dizzy with wonder...a spellbinding experience.  Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
"Still the grandest of all science-fiction movies.  Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"...Kubrick proved that a sci-fi movie could be philosophical rather than pulpy, profound rather than pedantic.  Premiere
"A major achievement in cinematography and special effects...  Variety

Editor's Note A four-million-year-old black monolith is discovered on the moon, and the government (while hiding the situation from the public) sends a team of scientists on a fact-finding mission. Eighteen months later, another team is sent to Jupiter in a ship controlled by the perfect HAL 9000 computer to further investigate the giant object--but on this trip something goes terribly wrong. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is a masterpiece of filmmaking. Director and (with Arthur C. Clarke) co-screenwriter Stanley Kubrick has created a visual and aural spectacle that stands as one of the greatest achievements ever put on celluloid. The film begins with the "Dawn of Man" segment, about the evolution of apes, and then ventures into the future, taking a look at what the world might be like in the first year of the 21st century. Kubrick's film is a triumph of technological storytelling, with stunning sets and a brilliant, overwhelming soundtrack. Long dialogue-free scenes sparkle with indelible images backed by powerful orchestral music, culminating in an unforgettable, inscrutable tale of birth and rebirth, human evolution and artificial intelligence, the past and the future.

	Daniel Ritcher
	Gary Lockwood
	Keir Dullea
	William Sylvester
	Arthur C. Clarke - Writer
	Ernest Archer, et. al. - Production Designer
	Geoffrey Unsworth - Cinematographer
	John Hoesli - Art Director
	Ray Lovejoy - Editor
	Stanley Kubrick - Director
	Stanley Kubrick - Writer
	Stanley Kubrick - Producer
	Victor Lyndon - Producer

"The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."----HAL 9000 (voice of Douglas Rain)

"I enjoy working with people."----HAL 9000

"Open the pod bay doors, Hal."----Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea)|"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."----HAL|"What's the problem?"----Dave|"I think you know what the problem is just as much as I do."----HAL|"What are you talking about, Hal?"----Dave|"This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it."----HAL

Total Film
"...A significant landmark in the history of cinema. It's also, as the original posters proclaimed, 'the ultimate trip'..." -- 5 out of 5 stars 04/01/2001 p.100

Chicago Sun-Times
"...[A] masterpiece....It is one of the noblest and most awesome works of film..." 03/29/2002 p.40

Premiere
"With 2001, Stanley Kubrick proved that a sci-fi movie could be philosophical rather than pulpy, profound rather than pedantic." 12/01/2003 p.11

ReelViews 10 of 10
"Despite gaining additional adherents and growing more respected with each passing day, 2001 would likely be a failure if shown to a typical, MTV-weaned group of multiplex patrons. Watching this film demands two qualities that are sadly lacking in all but the most mature and sophisticated audiences: patience and a willingness to ponder the meaning of what's transpiring on screen. 2001 is awe inspiring, but it is most definitely not a ""thrill ride."" It is art, it is a statement, and it is indisputably a cinematic classic...2001 needs to be experienced to be appreciated. It...does not build bonds between the viewers and the characters or set up a straightforward, linear storyline. Instead, it challenges the audience and inspires wonder. Proponents argue that this is Kubrick's best film; regardless of whether or not that is true, there's no doubting that this movie represents the product of a great director at the height of his powers." - James Berardinelli

Chicago Sun Times 10 of 10
"Kubrick's universe, and the space ships he constructed to explore it, are simply out of scale with human concerns. The ships are perfect, impersonal machines which venture from one planet to another, and if men are tucked away somewhere inside them, then they get there too...But the achievement belongs to the machine. And Kubrick's actors seem to sense this; they are lifelike but without emotion, like figures in a wax museum. Yet the machines are necessary because man himself is so helpless in the face of the universe...There is hardly any character development in the plot, then, as a result little suspense. What remains fascinating is the fanatic care with which Kubrick has built his machines and achieved his special effects. There is not a single moment, in this long film, when the audience can see through the props. The stars look like stars and outer space is bold and bleak." - Roger Ebert