2001: A Space Odyssey

we got 3 minutes of A$AP Rocky during the blank screen at the beginning. The docking bay part was 'Sugar' by System of a Down. The psychedelic trip to Jupiter section was 'Jesus He Knows Me' by Genesis.

they were obv going for the 'zane lowe rescores' vibe.

don't go all pinkfloydplanetarium on us

more films should have intermissions. how much better would winter sleep or boyhood have been with a gap after the 1.5 hour mark?

people wd go to the lobby, start texting, never come back.

i like uninterrupted long films for as long as i can stand em. pretty sure the 2001 intermission is there cuz the film premiered ~20 minutes longer.

I thought it was there cos it was a pretty common feature of cinerama 'roadshow' movies, back in the day?

Intermissions are also probably poopooed know as offering viewers a chance to theatre hop in the multiplex.

Serious Question: What was the last major release to feature one?

When I saw "As Good As It Gets" in Mexico, there was an intermission.

Pretty wild. "Hoo boy, these Helen Hunt/Greg Kinnear performances are wearing me out… better take a walk to the lobby for a few minutes."

pretty much all bollywood movies have intermissions.
when lawrence of arabia was re-released recently, i know that had an intermission with the original music.
cant think of any others though. apart from maybe grindhouse/death proof (though not sure if that was an intermission or just a specially arranged double feature with the trailers etc, lot of fun either way)

Cremaster 3 had a short intermission, not sure if that counts as a "major release" though

or even a release

The roadshow version of Carlos had intermissions between episodes/segments, and was the last thing that wasn't a rep film I recall attending that did so.

did the original release have an intermission?

i know Barry Lyndon did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=titZx8VA4DY

As was typical of most movies of that era released both as a "road-show" (in Cinerama format in the case of Space Odyssey) and subsequently put into general release (in seventy-millimetre in the case of Odyssey), the entrance music, intermission music (and intermission altogether), and postcredit exit music were cut from most (though not all) prints of the latter version, although these have been restored to most DVD releases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)

They were still doing it when I saw Heat at the dominion in 95.

The Directors Cut of Nymphomaniac had an intermission. When I saw Norte there was an intermission, but that was a festival-showing, anyone who saw it in actual release?

Saw Norte at the Glasgow Film Festival and there was no intermission.

During the 2001 intermission, we actually had someone selling choc ices etc in the auditorium, which was a nice touch

When I went to see Rivette's Out One at the NFT, spread over three nights, for the final evening the audience were asked beforehand whether we wanted an intermission or not (we voted no!)

The revived Gone With The Wind thread elsewhere on this board reminds me that there was an intermission during that when I saw a new digital print of it last year

Saw this at the BFI. Beyond the Infinite will never get old. Still amazed at how it was achieved, I'm sure a little googling would clear it up but why not enjoy the mystery. All I remember is a quote from a book I read years ago, Douglas Trumbull told Kubrick he would need giant plates of glass and a machine as big as a house, Kubrick said. "Do it. Get it. Whatever you need."

Blue Danube scenes are an elegy for a future that never happened.

Heywood Floyd is an asshole.

The most dated moment now is when you see Heywood Floyd reading a newspaper

Also all the dolly birds in service roles and hunks in the pilot seats. Wouldn't have been too far sighted to switch the gender roles around a bit.

oh boy here we go with "dated" again

i saw lawrence of arabia a few years ago at cinema 21 in portland and it had an intermission. it was nice because i had gone alone but during the intermission i stood around outside the theatre and talked to smokers from the audience about the movie so far + our expectations for pt 2, and i wouldn't wanna do that for every long movie (don't interrupt stalker) but it worked for that one. might work for barry lyndon. 2001 it's cool cuz it's a cliffhanger iirc.

Yeah I get it, a) it's stood up remarkably well and ii) who cares anyway, especially now it's set in the past. Just a minor observation let's be cool. Xp.

or not strictly a cliffhanger but yknow comes after an alarming reveal xp.

a scene not praised enough is hal murdering the sleepers: the cuts from frantic twitching vitals to serene sleeping faces to impassive eye to flatlines. really violent! honestly kinda feels like watching psycho.

(topped by hal's own death, tho; not a lot of better movie deaths)

xp - yeah, good point. 2001 frightened the shit out of me when i saw it the first time aged 8 or so and that was one of the scariest scenes. it's one of my favourite movies now but i still find the whole thing much stranger and more unsettling than the shining.

a scene not praised enough is hal murdering the sleepers: the cuts from frantic twitching vitals to serene sleeping faces to impassive eye to flatlines. really violent! honestly kinda feels like watching psycho.

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I don't remember this in the version I saw?

oh, the lines going across the screen - yeah that was a bit much!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4n3dbPqk58

amazing how effective the sound is there - just the low ambient hum of the discovery and then a series of beeps.

that last weird scraggly curve on CENTRAL NERV. SYSTEM rllllly freaked kid me out too

Stalker does actually have a "Part 2"brittle card though.

Stalker is about as long as a typical cgi blockbuster these days and 2001 ia only 2 hours long.

Er... title card.

Sorry about the typos. I'm blaming ios8.

xpost

The close-ups of the flashing 'Computer Malfunction', 'Life Function Critical', 'Life Functions Terminated' signs during that sequence really gave off a heavy J-L Godard vibe (text+primary colours)

Stalker is about as long as a typical cgi blockbuster these days and 2001 ia only 2 hours long.

def support intermissions for marvel movies.

the stillness of the shots of the crew and HAL kinda give me a la jetée vibe too

Lost footage? I remember futuristic cars in the movie in front of sleeping Heywood, definitely don't remember any lovemaking.

The movie being shown on the TV set in front of the sleeping passenger was a little more complicated. Kubrick wanted shots of a futuristic car, and close-ups of a love scene taking place inside. A crew was dispatched to Detroit to shoot a sleek car of the future which was provided by, I believe, the Ford Motor Company. The exteriors were shot in 35mm, but the interiors were shot without seats or passengers, as four-by-five Ektachrome transparencies. Using these as background plates for a normal rear-projection set-up, on actor and actress were seated in dummy seats and Kubrick directed the love scene. Shot on 35mm, this was cut together with the previous exterior shots, and projected onto the TV screen using a first-surface mirror.

ok my dirty mind substituted "lovemaking" for "love scene". still, you get two shots of talking heads, not even a smooch.

http://extension765.com/sdr/23-the-return-of-w-de-rijk

Anyone watched that yet?

2001 Gets Turned Into “The Weirdest Sci-Fi Comic Ever Made” by Jack Kirby

https://filmfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/2001pic05.jpg

http://www.openculture.com/2015/01/jack-kirbys-2001-a-space-odyssey.html

I've got the "treasury" version of that, its so big that it doesn't fit on any shelf in my house and languishes under my bed so I forget it exists

Love those comics so much. His actual adaptation of the film is next level.

The Treasury Edition is the movie adaptation, then the comic series spins off (loosely) from that. I'm guessing there are copyright issues that have prevented this from ever being reprinted.

kind of amazing kubrick even allowed the series to be done in the first place! maybe he didn't have a say, i don't know...

and/or Clarke

on Kubrick and the 2.20:1 ratio

The height-to-width proportions of the frame are as essential to the power of this image as the alignment of elements and submissive angle of framing. In a wider aspect ratio, the lateral plane would predominate, pushing the edges a bit further out and slightly diminishing the towering effect. (This is exactly the case with anamorphic 35mm prints of 2001, created when the film went into wide release — at reduced prices — after its initial roadshow tour: The top and bottom portions of the 70mm frame were cropped to accommodate the extra width of a 2.35:1 aspect ratio.) Machine or messenger, the monolith is the film’s only constant character, accompanying the human species on its four-million-year journey from Pleistocene tool user to Zarathustrian new man incubating in a cosmic cocoon, an idea first embodied (with a lotus theme) in Les Nénuphars, a 1901 painting by Czech artist František Kupka, another modern visionary smitten by physics, astronomy, and Nietzsche’s philosophy of transhuman evolution. In its epochal manifestations, the stone transmits knowledge (Moon-Watcher’s “discovery” of the bone as tool/weapon is accompanied by a flashback to the power shot of the monolith), produces a beacon signal that instigates a manned mission to Jupiter, spurs the magical alignment of Jovian satellites that triggers Bowman’s stargate experience, and appears one last time—stoic, eternal, absolute in its impenetrability—in the serene white dream chamber where an aged, bedridden Bowman, beyond heuristics or any mappable coordinates in time and space, undergoes a final transformation.

http://reverseshot.org/symposiums/entry/2013/space_odyssey