I saw 2001 in 1968 in San Francisco. I rather liked the film because it was largely visual. Kubrick was deliberately cool, showing how the human race, after a vigorous beginning, had all of its fervour sapped by its own technology, it had become jaded. One reviewer at that time said the film was about the evolution of man from ape to angel. The original premier was some 20 to 30 minutes longer I hear, but the New York critics, always generally unfavourable to the creative enterprise, panned it. So Kubrick cut the film more tightly, and even then it was a long, silent film without much explanation for American audiences who tend to scientific illiteracy. I think the film was intended to inspire a certain wonder in the cosmos, and was a celebration of intelligence in the universe. I saw the film, again in 70mm, in New York City in 2001 Roger Ebert's review: 2001: A Space Odyssey Movie Review (1968) | Roger Ebert
| | | | | | | | | | | 2001: A Space Odyssey Movie Review (1968) | Roger EbertThe genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in "2001: A Space Odyssey," but in how little. This is the work of an artist so sublimely confident that he doesn... | | | | View on www.rogerebert.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | | From: "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] For you film buffs out there: 2001 in 70 mm I saw 2001 in 1968 at the Cinerama is Seattle. The print may have been 70mm not the three strip Cinerama. 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