2001: A Space Odyssey

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    2001: A Space Odyssey
    1968

    Synopsis

    Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

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    Cast

    • Keir DulleaDr. David Bowman
    • Gary LockwoodDr. Frank Poole
    • William SylvesterDr. Heywood Floyd
    • Douglas RainHAL 9000 (voice)
    • Daniel RichterMoonwatcher
    • Leonard RossiterDr. Andrei Smyslov
    • Margaret TyzackElena
    • Robert BeattyDr. Ralph Halvorsen
    • Sean SullivanDr. Roy Michaels
    • Frank MillerMission Controller

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Austin Chronicle

      This is the way this ground-breaking monument was meant to be seen: in mind-boggling 70mm.
    • 100

      Chicago Reader

      Its special effects are used so seamlessly as part of an overall artistic strategy that, as critic Annette Michelson has pointed out, they don't even register as such, and thus are almost impossible to trivialize, a feat unmatched in movies.
    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Only a few films are transcendent, and work upon our minds and imaginations like music or prayer or a vast belittling landscape...Alone among science-fiction movies, 2001 is not concerned with thrilling us, but with inspiring our awe.
    • 100

      Chicago Tribune

      A masterpiece that can still leave you dizzy with wonder. As much as any movie ever made, this visionary science-fiction tale of space travel and first contact with extraterrestrial life is a spellbinding experience.
    • 100

      Empire

      Its faults - sketchy narrative, overblown abstraction - are counterbalanced by its gripping engagement between man and machine, and its rhapsodic wonder at heaven and earth and the infinite beyond.
    • 100

      Entertainment Weekly

      Still the grandest of all science-fiction movies.
    • 100

      Premiere

      With 2001, Stanley Kubrick proved that a sci-fi movie could be philosophical rather than pulpy, profound rather than pedantic.
    • 100

      ReelViews

      Watching this film demands two qualities that are sadly lacking in all but the most mature and sophisticated audiences: patience and a willingness to ponder the meaning of what's transpiring on screen. 2001 is awe inspiring, but it is most definitely not a "thrill ride." It is art, it is a statement, and it is indisputably a cinematic classic.

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