2001: A Space Odyssey

btw, David Bowie, your new handle suits you, with the IQ and all.

Paul Newman could have voiced HAL, too.

if you're gonna be a monkey, be a gorilla

Bunny Lake Is Missing
David and Lisa

Russell Schweickart, BS and MS from MIT who did research in the Experimental Astronomy Lab there

Buzz Aldrin, an MIT PhD in Astronautics

Frank Borman, a Cal Tech MS in Aeronautical Engineering, and graduate of Harvard B School's Advanced Management Program

Story Musgrave, MBA (UCLA) and MD (Columbia) and member of the New York Academy of Sciences who has studied at an advanced level math, computer science, chemistry and neurophysiology

Unfortunately, most NASA gigs in places I'd never live(central florida, houston, los angeles, cali desert, sunnyvale, etc).

Have, somewhere, a battered paperback called The Making of 2001 with lots of fascinating production details (I think it's stayed in print).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/kubrick-2001.jpg

once saw a back-to-back screening of 2001/2010. i am probably one of the rare few who thought 2010 wasn't so bad... hell, i even read that damn 2061 book. is clarke still alive?

john landis really ran with that...

2010 wasn't hideous, but it inevitably literalized everything. Tragic mundanity.

I didn't recall Clarke's status, but he just got honored in Sri Lanka (his adopted land).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke

is clarke still alive?

very much so! and living in shri lanka.

i love 2001.

I wonder if she ever got her bush baby.

http://imdb.com/name/nm0001158/

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And "The Dawn of Man" birthday ... which covers both the man-apes and the moon excavation.

HAL was originally voiced by Bronx-accented Psycho detective Martin Balsam. I do a decent impression of HAL's rendition of "Daisy."

Full Metal Jacket
Dr. Strangelove
Spartacus
Paths of Glory

I like all of these! I really do! And except for FMJ I liked all of them BEFORE I ever had any intention of joining the cast of MASH so there!

BTW Joshua could whup HAL's ass.

did you like Barry Lyndon, TOMBOT? it's got war in it.

Man, Spartacus is fine as Decadent Hollywood Rome spectacles go, but i can't take that slaves-frolic-with-the-lambs shit.

And haven't seen La Jetée at all. But que sera, et al.

Isn't it the case that Sarah Cracknell was screentested for the Starchild? (Her dad was 1st AD.) Stanley decided to go with a fake.

Not the only thing that he ran into the ground...

Someone has now removed it

“Someone”

?

Whichever federal agency manages that land sure as shit needed to remove it, especially after those helicopter cowboys showed up on that youtube that forks linked, above.

The agency says they didn’t. Maybe they’re lying, but they’re the ones who announced its existence to the public in the first place.

http://i.imgur.com/9pYVabH.png

Simplest explanation is that the aforementioned cowboys, or others like them, made off with it.

good riddance

this was cool as an idea but the internet kinda ruins everything.

Simplest explanation is that the aforementioned space cowboys, or others like them, made off with it.

The fuck’s your problem?

huh?

Space cowboys? More like some JOKERS.

Oh, I get it. Apologies I flew off the handle, should have read more carefully.

gangsters of love iirc

of what do you speak?

The pompatus of love?

or perhaps Maurice

A (shoddy-looking) copycat effort has surfaced in Romania.

Angry mob of locals

https://boingboing.net/2020/11/30/utah-monolith-was-removed-and-broken-down-by-annoyed-locals.html

(After trying so smash it with bone, obv)

it was probably an alien disc that had many cures for many diseases n we DISTROYED IT?

"This is why you don't leave trash in the desert" and "Leave no trace" otm

Maybe they really loved some peaches?

Can anyone identify this painting from the beyond the infinite hotel room?

https://ro.nu/2001/d.html

https://ro.nu/2001/d1.png

and this one:

https://ro.nu/2001/c1.png

Oh, I'm sure I've seen something or read about these, let me look through my books.

I seem to recall that they were recycled (Barry L possibly) but I could be wrong.

As always with Kubrick, nothing is straightforward.

https://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/2001_boucher.htm

https://www.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/igrfi5/can_someone_identify_this_painting_from_2001_its/

yes that's definitely the same one in 'the man who knew too much', not that that makes it easier to identify! the fact that two of the paintings have been identified suggests that, even if they were painted for the studio, they were copies of genuine works rather than complete pastiches.

feel like he missed a trick here: itt: paintings that are plot-points in movies and TV that are terrible paintings (or excellent ones if there are any)

https://live.staticflickr.com/4480/24097904808_9ab1284082_b.jpg

Assumed the revive was for 2001 winning the Sight and Sound poll.

Tangentially related — Idyllopus Press’s cluster of analyses around the painting in Lolita are, as usual for that site, an absolute tour de force. (I read the middle one recently)

My first thought on hearing that one painting is in both 2001 and The Man Who Knew Too Much isn't to theorize on shared themes or elaborate callbacks. I think it means they used the same prop house.

ah but clearly Kubrick chose to work with this film studio so as to gain access to that prop house and therefore...

To me the beauty of these deep, intertextual analyses isn’t to get hung up on what % of the stuff is actually “intentional”; but to enjoy the connections being made and themes/observations being drawn out.

(When I read the Idyllopus write-up on EWS, I thought maybe 70% of her observations were brilliant/mind-blowing, and 30% a wild stretch… for The Shining, I would maybe reverse those numbers, but still really enjoyed reading it.)

Wow, first I've heard of those series. They out to put them in print.

She gets pretty "out there" – but the degree of cultural knowledge that she brings into play is incredible. I've also never seen anyone analyze a film so closely... and there's obviously a lot of grist for the mill there (as a basic example, I had never realized that Kubrick moves props around and stuff).

(I would also highlight this piece called The Problems with Discussing Stanley Kubrick's Lolita... it's somewhat of a departure from her usual format, in that it's a lengthy, somewhat personal rumination/essay on "problematic" art & artists – obv. a very familiar subject these days, but she goes places that were new to me, and I thought it was really good and thoughtful.)

Another good "Supplemental" piece (sorry, my last post) is The Real Horror of The Shining: The Misogyny of the Audience for Wendy Torrance.