2001: A Space Odyssey

Stalker is about as long as a typical cgi blockbuster these days and 2001 ia only 2 hours long.

def support intermissions for marvel movies.

the stillness of the shots of the crew and HAL kinda give me a la jetée vibe too

Lost footage? I remember futuristic cars in the movie in front of sleeping Heywood, definitely don't remember any lovemaking.

The movie being shown on the TV set in front of the sleeping passenger was a little more complicated. Kubrick wanted shots of a futuristic car, and close-ups of a love scene taking place inside. A crew was dispatched to Detroit to shoot a sleek car of the future which was provided by, I believe, the Ford Motor Company. The exteriors were shot in 35mm, but the interiors were shot without seats or passengers, as four-by-five Ektachrome transparencies. Using these as background plates for a normal rear-projection set-up, on actor and actress were seated in dummy seats and Kubrick directed the love scene. Shot on 35mm, this was cut together with the previous exterior shots, and projected onto the TV screen using a first-surface mirror.

ok my dirty mind substituted "lovemaking" for "love scene". still, you get two shots of talking heads, not even a smooch.

http://extension765.com/sdr/23-the-return-of-w-de-rijk

Anyone watched that yet?

2001 Gets Turned Into “The Weirdest Sci-Fi Comic Ever Made” by Jack Kirby

https://filmfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/2001pic05.jpg

http://www.openculture.com/2015/01/jack-kirbys-2001-a-space-odyssey.html

I've got the "treasury" version of that, its so big that it doesn't fit on any shelf in my house and languishes under my bed so I forget it exists

Love those comics so much. His actual adaptation of the film is next level.

The Treasury Edition is the movie adaptation, then the comic series spins off (loosely) from that. I'm guessing there are copyright issues that have prevented this from ever being reprinted.

kind of amazing kubrick even allowed the series to be done in the first place! maybe he didn't have a say, i don't know...

and/or Clarke

on Kubrick and the 2.20:1 ratio

The height-to-width proportions of the frame are as essential to the power of this image as the alignment of elements and submissive angle of framing. In a wider aspect ratio, the lateral plane would predominate, pushing the edges a bit further out and slightly diminishing the towering effect. (This is exactly the case with anamorphic 35mm prints of 2001, created when the film went into wide release — at reduced prices — after its initial roadshow tour: The top and bottom portions of the 70mm frame were cropped to accommodate the extra width of a 2.35:1 aspect ratio.) Machine or messenger, the monolith is the film’s only constant character, accompanying the human species on its four-million-year journey from Pleistocene tool user to Zarathustrian new man incubating in a cosmic cocoon, an idea first embodied (with a lotus theme) in Les Nénuphars, a 1901 painting by Czech artist František Kupka, another modern visionary smitten by physics, astronomy, and Nietzsche’s philosophy of transhuman evolution. In its epochal manifestations, the stone transmits knowledge (Moon-Watcher’s “discovery” of the bone as tool/weapon is accompanied by a flashback to the power shot of the monolith), produces a beacon signal that instigates a manned mission to Jupiter, spurs the magical alignment of Jovian satellites that triggers Bowman’s stargate experience, and appears one last time—stoic, eternal, absolute in its impenetrability—in the serene white dream chamber where an aged, bedridden Bowman, beyond heuristics or any mappable coordinates in time and space, undergoes a final transformation.

http://reverseshot.org/symposiums/entry/2013/space_odyssey

Has everyone seen this? rare example of Kubrick allowing his work to be re-used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vezy9pRxeOA

well, since SK died in March '99, do you know that it was he who allowed it?

Well, since it first aired in January 1999, would assume so. If not then his estate must have allowed it, which is more or less the same thing.

*one* would assume so

OK, didn't know the airdate

Hm.

http://i.imgur.com/W9JVlkt.jpg

I doubt Kubrick had anything to do with that Apple ad - unlike with the later Warner Bros films, he didn't have any veto over the way that 2001 was exploited, hence the Marvel Comics, the 2010 movie etc.

Well I dunno, wiki has sources saying he gave his permission. The difference being that (unlike the comics and 2010) the ad actually uses footage from the film. who knows.

Who am I to argue with Wiki - the Kubrick estate certainly have a say in the way that 2001 is presented on home video (ie no 'special edition' with the footage that was excised from the premiere), so you could well be right about the difference being actual content rather than intellectual property.

I like to think that Kubrick would've be delighted by the Kirby comics, but my guess is that SK was only barely aware of them at best.

I wonder if they tried to get Douglas Rain to do the voice for that ad, whoever is copying him isn't doing a good enough job.

yeah apparently they asked him but he refused to do it

saw this for the first time ever a few days ago, at the cinema, front row, was also very stoned. i have been waiting for years to see this in the movie theater, and I am really glad i waited.

yeah finally seeing this on the big screen last year rates as one of my best ever moviegoing experiences

Same. Also, get stoned.

You don't need to get stoned. I saw it stone cold sober on the big screen and it remains one of the greatest works of art I will ever witness

yeah you do. and you have to take drugs to enjoy dance music.

lock thread

It will be shown in Copenhagen at the end of summer, but at open air and on digital. I want to watch this on a scrappy 35mm when I finally watch in on a big screen. I've watched it on DVD a bunch of times.

the last time i saw this what blew my mind was the scene near the beginning where the guy stands in front of an american flag and acknowledges to the scientists that having to maintain the quarantine's official cover story while knowing the truth will make them uncomfortable and anxious, which not only foreshadows hal's psychosis but links it to the secretive impulses of the Complex that built him. i was stoned.

(the first time this movie really Got me i wasn't. tho i was 16 which amounts to the same thing.)

we should rank uncannily stilted scenes of pronouncements from authority in the first quarters of kubrick movies: "i completely understand your negative feelings" vs "for some people, solitude and isolation can in itself become a problem" vs "she o.d.ed on coke"

(vs "your days of fingerbanging mary jane rottencrotch through her pretty pink panties are over")

Now I'm really mad at myself for not giving more attention earlier, and I'm suuuuuuuuuuper jealous of Mr Veg who first saw it in a big cinerama dome when he was 10

I can't imagine anything more awesome than seeing this as a kid, seriously anyone itt who has that memory congratulations you win at life.

I also first saw 2001 when I was 10, but it was on TV.

priced-to-move Taschen book on the film (560 pp, $50)

http://twitchfilm.com/2015/08/book-review-piers-bizonys-the-making-of-stanley-kubricks-2001-a-space-odyssey-gallery.html

I own this earlier version of the Bizony book -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/2001-Filming-Future-Piers-Bizony/dp/1854107062

lots of interesting background stuff obv, but he is not a very good or insightful writer. Sadly.

70mm screening at the prince charles in london in a few weeks...

http://www.trbimg.com/img-55d5278a/turbine/la-2436119-et-spaceodyssey-2-lkh-02-jpg-20150819/800/800x450

LA Philharmonic just recently played the soundtrack live to the film.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-phil-2001-review-20150820-story.html

I keep forgetting Keir played the piano player i Black Christmas.

This looks kinda interesting:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-2001-File-Landmark-Science/dp/0957261020/ref=pd_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0PJT8DR8YC4YW9CKBQG6

Incredible! I was just daydreaming about a live music performance of this the other day. Blue Danube / Spinning Space Stations sequence is my favorite film sequence of all time.

I saw it at the Bowl which was great/interesting because the film is so good I kind of forgot that the orchestra was playing at all. That said, I'd never heard the choral parts live before (and had never really heard any avant-garde choral music live) and that was amazing.

http://i.imgur.com/5U1yFUO.jpg

Wow.

awesome

Great idea

Saw it at a 70mm one-day-festival a year ago, sober, front row, blown away

Did they perform Ligeti's Aventures at the end section in the fake hotel suite?

I believe so. It seemed complete and again, so seamless that it I occasionally forgot about the live aspect.