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Factory Of Masterpieces: Kubrick

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• USA, UK / 1968 / DCP / Colour / 164’ / English; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
• Director of Photography: Geoffrey Unsworth
• Editing: Ray Lovejoy
• Cast: Keir Dullea, Daniel Richter, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack
• Producer: Stanley Kubrick
• Production Co.: MGM, Stanley Kubrick Productions
• World Sales: Park Circus

- 1969 OSCAR -- Special Visual Effects
- 1969 BAFTA -- Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction
- 1969 DAVID DI DONATELLO (ITALY) -- Best Foreign Production
- 1969 HUGO AWARDS -- Best Dramatic Presentation

Kubrick, who has been an innovator in every genre that he tried his hands at, created a never-before-done sci-fi masterpiece when he worked with Arthur C. Clarke, one of the most prestigious “scientific science fiction” writers of the era. 2001 is a monumental symphony about what science and technology means for humans and their relationship with things they invent (i.e. computers in the case of HAL). The film, which depicts, starting with their pre-technology ancestors, humanity’s drifting from one turning point to the next triggered by a mysterious black monolith, forms one of the purest, most elegant, sublime and mind-bending audio visuals in cinema, which Kubrick suggested that should resemble music rather than literature.

Images courtesy of Park Circus/Warner Bros.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.