2001: A Space Odyssey — The Film That Refuses to Hold Your Hand

Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey opened in April 1968 to a chorus of walkouts and bafflement, and one of the studio’s own executives reportedly left the premiere early. I came to it decades later, first on a battered VHS that murdered the aspect ratio, then properly on a big screen in a repertory house, where it finally became the thing it was built to be. Fifty-five years on, the strangest fact about it is that nobody has out-thought it. Every serious science-fiction film since has borrowed its furniture, its silence or its cosmic nerve, and most of them flinch at the exact moment Kubrick refuses to.

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2001: A Space Odyssey — The Film That Refuses to Hold Your Hand