2001 Space Odyssey (1968)

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.

	Leonard Rossiter
	Keir Dullea
	Daniel Richter
	William Sylvester
	Gary Lockwood
	Robert Beatty
	John Hoesli - Art Director
	Tony Masters - Production Designer
	Harry Lange - Production Designer
	Stanley Kubrick - Screenwriter
	Arthur C. Clarke - Screenwriter
	Douglas Rain - Voice
	Geoffrey Unsworth - Cinematographer
	John Alcott - Cinematographer
	Arthur C. Clarke - Source Writer
	Douglas Trumbull - Special Effects
	Stanley Kubrick - Director

"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