
Total Film
With the release of Stanley Kubrick's enigmatic space spectacle in 1968, the science-fiction film finally came of age.
Full reviewStanley 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.
LessWith the release of Stanley Kubrick's enigmatic space spectacle in 1968, the science-fiction film finally came of age.
Full reviewLingers 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?
Full reviewLike all good speculations, it leaves the spectator up in the air with a tantalising vision as food for thought.
Full reviewThe 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.
Full review2001: A Space Odyssey is now playing in 1 cinema in New Zealand. 2001: A Space Odyssey is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Academy On Demand and AroVision.
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