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2001: A Space Odyssey

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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Reviews Counted: 50 Fresh: 48  Rotten:2 Average Rating: 8.8/10
 
Consensus: One of the most influential of all sci-fi films -- and one of the most controversial -- Stanley Kubrick's 2001 is a delicate, poetic meditation on the ingenuity -- and folly -- of mankind.
 

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Runtime: 2 hrs 39 mins

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Starring: Keir Dullea, William Sylvester, Gary Lockwood, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Screenwriter: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke

DVD Info

Release:

Oct 23, 2007

[DVD Details]

Blu-ray Disc Features:

  • Anamorphic Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
  • PCM 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital 2.0
  • Mono 1.0
  • Subtitles - Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean. Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - Keir Dullea; Gary Lockwood
  • Documentary - 1. Channel Four Documentary 2001 - THE MAKING OF A MYTH
  • Featurettes - 1. STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF KUBRICK: THE LEGACY OF
  • 2. VISION OF A FUTURE PASSED: THE PROPHECY OF
  • 3. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - A LOOK BEHIND THE FUTURE
  • 4. WHAT IS OUT THERE?
  • 5. 2001: FX and Early Conceptual Artwork
  • 6. LOOK: STANLEY KUBRICK!
  • Interview (audio only) - 1. 1966 Interview by Jeremy Bernstein
  • Theatrical Trailer

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4/4

Central to the profundity of the film is the notion that few things are more meaningful than a child's first steps, the emotive impact of this scenario manifest in every one of the film's dizzying set pieces, albeit multiplied to epic proportions.

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11/19/07
Rob Humanick
Slant Magazine
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5/5

2001 certainly is a colossal bore, unless you're on its wavelength, in which case it's one of the greatest films of all time.

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11/08/07
Chris Barsanti
Filmcritic.com
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10/27/07
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal
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5/5

Prepare to be dazzled.

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10/02/07
Channel 4 Film
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The film's projections of the cold war and antiquated product placements may look quaint now, but the poetry is as hard-edged and full of wonder as ever.

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05/08/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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It was a freshening attitude then, though its long-term effects haven't been all to the good.

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05/08/07
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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For all the essential coldness of Kubrick's vision, it demands attention as superior sci-fi, simply because it's more concerned with ideas than with Boy's Own-style pyrotechnics.

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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It has reached the status of Art, meaning that it's going to go on provoking strong opinions.

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04/08/06
Mark Bourne
DVDJournal.com
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What else can such a film be called but ART?

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03/30/06
Dan Jardine
Cinemania
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4/4

Still one of the best

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03/29/06
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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4/4

Part space opera, part cinematic symphony and part horror story, the film is a shape-shifting painting.

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03/20/06
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
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The most influential sci-fi film ever made, 2001 caused culture shock when released, forever changing the conventions, style, and prestige of the previously debased genre

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08/13/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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Une leçon de cinéma par l’un de ses plus grands artisans.

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07/27/05
Louis-Jérôme Cloutier
Panorama
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06/11/05
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy
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2001 speaks by monolith -- that is, by image, metaphor, poetry, and suggestion.

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01/15/05
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer
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4/4

The film looks at our dependence on technology before our modern culture had abused it. It warns us that a crutch can cause as many wounds as it attempts to heal.

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09/04/04
Wesley Lovell
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Doesn't just depict a quantum leap forward in human consciousness — it practically requires such a leap, on an individual scale, from the viewer.

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07/09/04
Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films Guide
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01/20/04
Matt Zoller Seitz
New York Press
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A beautiful, confounding picture that had half the audience cheering and the other half snoring.

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07/30/03
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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4/4

Those who love it as passionately as I do realize this film is about more than dialogue, plot, or space ships. Its uniqueness permits it to transcend the ordinary, becoming a movie not about one human but the entire human species.

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03/05/03
Steven Snyder
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