2001: A Space Odyssey

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

Has everyone seen this? rare example of Kubrick allowing his work to be re-used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vezy9pRxeOA

well, since SK died in March '99, do you know that it was he who allowed it?

Well, since it first aired in January 1999, would assume so. If not then his estate must have allowed it, which is more or less the same thing.

*one* would assume so

OK, didn't know the airdate

Hm.

http://i.imgur.com/W9JVlkt.jpg

I doubt Kubrick had anything to do with that Apple ad - unlike with the later Warner Bros films, he didn't have any veto over the way that 2001 was exploited, hence the Marvel Comics, the 2010 movie etc.

Well I dunno, wiki has sources saying he gave his permission. The difference being that (unlike the comics and 2010) the ad actually uses footage from the film. who knows.

Who am I to argue with Wiki - the Kubrick estate certainly have a say in the way that 2001 is presented on home video (ie no 'special edition' with the footage that was excised from the premiere), so you could well be right about the difference being actual content rather than intellectual property.

I like to think that Kubrick would've be delighted by the Kirby comics, but my guess is that SK was only barely aware of them at best.

I wonder if they tried to get Douglas Rain to do the voice for that ad, whoever is copying him isn't doing a good enough job.

yeah apparently they asked him but he refused to do it

saw this for the first time ever a few days ago, at the cinema, front row, was also very stoned. i have been waiting for years to see this in the movie theater, and I am really glad i waited.

yeah finally seeing this on the big screen last year rates as one of my best ever moviegoing experiences

Same. Also, get stoned.