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Christopher Nolan wants to show me something interesting. Something beautiful and exceptional, something that changed his life when he was a boy.
It's also something that Nolan, one of the most accomplished and successful of contemporary filmmakers, has persuaded Warner Bros. to share with the world both at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival and then in theaters nationwide, but in a way that boldly deviates from standard practice.
For what is being cued up in a small, hidden-away screening room in an unmarked building in Burbank is a brand new 70-mm reel of film of one of the most significant and influential motion pictures ever made, Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science-fiction epic "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Yes, you read that right. Not a digital anything, an actual reel of film that was for all intents and purposes identical to the one Nolan saw as a child and Kubrick himself would have looked at when the film was new half a century ago.
Source: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-ca-mn-christopher-nolan-2001-20180503-story.html
(Score: 4, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 10 2018, @12:38AM (7 children)
I have many fond memories of watching it, as well as vivid memories of not having the first clue what was going on in it.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by krishnoid on Thursday May 10 2018, @01:00AM (1 child)
Aren't you excited that you can now relive that exact same experience in better fidelity?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @01:12AM
Don't you mean "for all intents and purposes identical to the one Nolan saw as a child and Kubrick himself would have looked at when the film was new half a century ago."
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Spamalope on Thursday May 10 2018, @01:40AM
Yeah, it was beautiful but I'd already seen Star Wars and didn't appreciate the spectacular achievement and Kubric was a bit too meta. I read the book 2010 after seeing 2001 the movie and had many 'ah hah!' moments as I understood what Kubric was showing without explanation. As an adult I think it's a masterpiece, especially in the way it evokes moods throughout (though the visuals are ground breaking invented for the movie stuff). I expect Kubric intended some of the story to be mysterious and open to interpretation to help sell an actual alien influence. I wonder how I'd follow along now if I could see it again for the first time as an adult. I know I'd enjoy it more. I think I'd follow along better, though some of the Star Child scenes would probably leave me on the curb at least for the first viewing.
If you haven't seen any of the behind the scenes how they did it info for 2001, it's worth a look. Very impressive and creative minds.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Thursday May 10 2018, @02:39AM (2 children)
I was twelve when it came to our downtown theater. This was the first movie that I decided to watch, and paid for it with my own hard earned money. It was kind of a rite of passage, in that I didn't ask for money to go watch a movie, didn't ask "permission" to go to the theater.
It was also the final motivator that sent me searching for science fiction at the libraries, and put all those juvenile cowboys and Indians books behind me. (I might still read a Louis Lamour book if I stumbled across it.) So, a second rite of passage, if you like.
(Score: 1) by Gnuthulhu on Friday May 11 2018, @05:51PM (1 child)
I saw this when it came out in Ontario. Everyone going in to the theatre was given a thin leaflet explaining that it is possible to survive for 30 seconds in vacuum, so that we would believe the scene where Dave re-enters the ship without a helmet. Anybody else get one of these?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 11 2018, @06:19PM
Not I. That would be a heckuva collector's item today, I would imagine.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by fritsd on Thursday May 10 2018, @09:19AM
I liked that concept of: "you don't HAVE TO understand everything that goes on in this film".
I wonder if the Chemical Brothers thought of this film and Baba O'Riley, when they made "Escape Velocity" [youtube.com]