Wexner Center for the Arts: Film/Video - 2001: A Space Odyssey 70mm print!

Retrospective: Stanley Kubrick

One of the most distinctive filmmakers of the post-WWII era, Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) was celebrated—and criticized—for his exacting attention to virtually all aspects of his productions. Kubrick joined a commanding visual sense to a darkly comic worldview, instinctively defiant of authority yet sensitive to the values of art and literature. As we approach the decade mark since his death, this retrospective allows viewers to reacquaint themselves with his singular legacy.

2001: A Space Odyssey

70mm print!

(Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

Fri, July 11, 2008 | 7:00PM
Film/Video Theater

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Few films have informed the zeitgeist as convincingly as 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Kubrick’s epic fantasia took Arthur C. Clarke’s original sci-fi story—tracing human consciousness from its dawn to its first encounters with extraterrestrial intelligence—as the basis for a genuine visual tour de force unlike anything seen in movies before or since. Both slyly comic and truly chilling, it’s also notable for the way its nominal stars (Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood) are utterly upstaged by the selfless, ever-obliging, tragic HAL. (141 mins., 70mm)

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