2001 Space Odyssey (1968)

"...an overwhelming visual experience...  Box Office Magazine
"...intelligent attempt at exploring human development...  Brian Webster, Apollo Leisure Guide

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.

	Dan Ritcher
	Gary Lockwood
	Keir Dullea
	Leonard Rossiter
	Margeret Tyzack
	William Sylvester
	Hardy Amies - Costume Designer
	Stanley Kubrick - Director
	Geoffrey Unsworth - Director of Photography
	John Alcott - Director of Photography
	Ray Lovejoy - Editor
	Richard Strauss - Musical Score
	Johann Straub - Musical Score
	Gyorgy Ligeti - Musical Score
	Aram Khachaturyan - Musical Score
	Stanley Kubrick - Producer
	Anthony Masters - Production Designer
	Ernest Archer - Production Designer
	Harry Lange - Production Designer
	Arthur C. Clarke - Screenplay
	Stanley Kubrick - Screenplay

"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

Chicago Sun Times 9 of 10
The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but in how little. This is the work of an artist so sublimely confident that he doesn't include a single shot simply to keep our attention... 2001 is not concerned with thrilling us, but with inspiring our awe... Only a few films are transcendent, and work upon our minds and imaginations like music or prayer or a vast belittling landscape... It says to us: We became men when we learned to think. Our minds have given us the tools to understand where we live and who we are. Now it is time to move on to the next step, to know that we live not on a planet but among the stars, and that we are not flesh but intelligence. - Roger Ebert

Apollo Leisure Guide 9 of 10
The best films are those you can watch several times and get something different out of each experience... 2001: A Space Odyssey is such a film. After all, it does pack into 139 minutes all of human development from pre-history through to the discovery of Greater Meaning, floating through space out somewhere near Jupiter... Perhaps the greatest tribute to 2001: A Space Odyssey is that its intelligent attempt at exploring human development is as relevant today as when it was released in 1968. - Brian Webster