Total Film
With the release of Stanley Kubrick's enigmatic space spectacle in 1968, the science-fiction film finally came of age.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick's ambitious science-fiction epic, billed as "a countdown to tomorrow, a road map to human destiny, a quest for the infinite".
Kubrick starts with human's prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millenia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever conceived) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted realms of spacey.
Best Special Visual Effects, Academy Awards 1969
1968Rating: PG141 minsUK, USA
Science FictionClassic
- Director:
- Stanley Kubrick ('Spartacus', 'Lolita', 'Dr Strangelove', 'A Clockwork Orange', 'The Shining')
- Writer:
- Arthur C. ClarkeStanley Kubrick
- Cast:
- Keir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterDaniel RichterLeonard RossiterMargaret TyzackRobert BeattyDouglas Rain
2001: A Space Odyssey / Reviews
Time Out
Lingers on the mind like a tall, black riddle: Where are the new bones, the new tools, that will take us higher? Do we even deserve them?
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The Guardian
Like all good speculations, it leaves the spectator up in the air with a tantalising vision as food for thought.
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Roger Ebert
The film creates its effects essentially out of visuals and music. It is meditative. It does not cater to us, but wants to inspire us, enlarge us.
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