2001: A Space Odyssey

A mind-bending sci-fi symphony, Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 epic pushed the limits of narrative and special effects toward a meditation on technology and humanity.To begin his voyage into the future, Kubrick visits our 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 (Dullea) into uncharted realms of space, perhaps even into immortality. With assistance from special-effects expert Douglas Trumbull, Kubrick spent over two years meticulously creating the most "realistic" depictions of outer space ever seen, greatly advancing cinematic technology for a story expressing grave doubts about technology itself. Despite some initial critical reservations that it was too long and too dull, 2001 became one of the most popular films of 1968, underlining the generation gap between young moviegoers who wanted to see something new and challenging and oldsters who "didn't get it." Let the awe and mystery of a journey unlike any other begin...DISCUSSIONWednesday, April 10th @ 9:30pm How Stanley Kubrick broke all the rules for a Hollywood Blockbuster & made a better film.Film critic and cinema theorist Hans Morgenstern discusses the seven principals of Classical Hollywood as defined by noted film scholar David Bordwell and demonstrates how, with 2001: A Space Odyssey , Stanley Kubrick breaks each rule to create a more fulfilling cinematic experience. In a film striving to connote transcendentalism, Kubrick works around narrative conventions to reach a sublime statement that illuminates the story in a way only cinema can.*Full list of Kubrick Retrospective screenings & events available here