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2001: A Space Odyssey

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Original title: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Year: 1968
Running time: 139 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Screenwriter: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke. Story: Arthur C. Clarke
Music: Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss, György Ligeti, Aram Khachaturyan
Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth
Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Frank Miller, Penny Brahms, Alan Gifford, Vivian Kubrick
Producer: Co-production United Kingdom-United States;
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Stanley Kubrick Production
Genre: Sci-Fi | Space Adventure. Computers / Internet. Cult Movie
Movie Groups: Arthur C. Clarke Adaptations
Synopsis: A four-million-year-old black monolith is discovered on the moon, and the government (while hiding the situation from the public) sends a team of scientists on a fact-finding mission. Eighteen months later, another team is sent to Jupiter in a ship controlled by the perfect HAL 9000 computer to further investigate the giant object--but on this trip something goes terribly wrong.

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#13 Best Science Fiction Movies
#19 Best British Movies

Awards: 1968: Oscar: Best Visual Effects. 4 Nominations: includinb Best Director and Screenplay

1968: BAFTA Awards: 3 awards: Best Soundtrack, Cinematography and Art Direction

1968: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Nominated for Best Director

1968: David di Donatello Awards: Best Foreign Production

Critics' reviews

"Most movies are about characters with a goal in mind (...) '2001: A Space Odyssey' is not about a goal but about a quest, a need (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"It is, as promised, 'a majestic visual experience', quite unlike any film we have ever seen"

John Mahoney: The Hollywood Reporter
"The movie is so completely absorbed in its own problems, its use of color and space, its fanatical devotion to science-fiction detail, that it is somewhere between hypnotic and immensely boring."

Renata Adler: The New York Times
"Its special effects are used so seamlessly as part of an overall artistic strategy that (...) they don't even register as such (...) The poetry is as hard-edged and full of wonder as ever"

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Chicago Reader
"A major achievement in cinematography and special effects, '2001' lacks dramatic appeal to a large degree and only conveys suspense after the halfway mark."

Robert B. Frederick: Variety
"[It] is not a movie; it’s an experience (...) A small sphere of intellectuals will feel that Kubrick has said something, simply because one expected him to say something. Others will be disappointed"

Kathleen Carroll: New York Daily News
"It’s through the film’s silent, deliberate hypnosis that it achieves its ballet-like majesty.(…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Rob Humanick: Slant
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