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Film Screening - 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Hominids battle on an ancient plain at the base of a mysterious monolith. Space stations rotate majestically to the strains of a Strauss waltz. A crucial mission is sabotaged by a bland supercomputer named HAL; when the astronaut reaches his goal, time unravels and he merges with the cosmos. Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, rated G) was released at the height of the counterculture revolution almost 60 years ago, but still seems ahead of its time today. Co-written with Arthur C. Clarke, it’s a sci-fi vision quest spanning human evolution and interstellar travel, and a magnificent showcase for Kubrick’s technical perfectionism. Quite a leap for a guy who was directing sword-and-sandal potboilers and pulp crime flicks a few years earlier. The satraps at Columbia Pictures worried it would be dead on arrival, but of course it electrified the hippie generation and was soon canonized as the ultimate trip. As John Lennon remarked at the time, “ 2001, I see it every week.” Across the universe indeed.
