Film: "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Stanley Kubrick’s dazzling masterwork about humans’ place in the universe, “unrestored” to its original version by Christopher Nolan.
Introduction by Marcos Stafne, Exec. Director for the Montshire Museum of Science
Director Stanley Kubrick redefined the limits of filmmaking with this dazzling space opera. Last year, Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk) created an “unrestored” 50th anniversary version of the original camera negative and now audiences can see this landmark film with its original color palette, as close to Kubrick’s intention as possible.
In a brilliant meditation on humans and their place in the universe, Kubrick visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality. Co-written by Kubrick and sci-fi visionary Arthur C. Clarke, this masterwork set the gold standard for the human vs. machine conflict—and is yet to find a cinematic equal. “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” Let an awesome journey unlike any other begin.
D: Stanley Kubrick, US, 1968, 2h44m
