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Christopher Nolan Returns Kubrick Sci-Fi Masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' to its Original Glory

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 09 2018, @11:01PM   
from the open-the-pod-bay-doors-HAL dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3941

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

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• Re:I saw that movie when I was six years old Re:I saw that movie when I was six years old (Score: 5, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Thursday May 10 2018, @02:39AM (2 children)

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Thursday May 10 2018, @02:39AM (#677718) Journal

  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.

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• Re:I saw that movie when I was six years old Re:I saw that movie when I was six years old (Score: 1) by Gnuthulhu on Friday May 11 2018, @05:51PM (1 child)

  by Gnuthulhu (2718) on Friday May 11 2018, @05:51PM (#678511) Homepage

  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?

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  • Re:I saw that movie when I was six years old (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 11 2018, @06:19PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) on Friday May 11 2018, @06:19PM (#678516) Journal

    Not I. That would be a heckuva collector's item today, I would imagine.

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