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| | 2001: A Space Odyssey | | Begins: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at 7:00 PM | | Where: Film Lounge | (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
Kubrick's poetic, sometimes incomprehensible scifi epic struck a chord in the psychedelic 60's but has never since lost its foothold among modern classics. Its images, often unaccompanied by explanatory dialogue but set to classical music and bolstered by visual effects that look state-of-the-art even by today's CGI-elevated standards, are so potent that they've become pop-culturally essential; probably no film has been so widely sampled on The Simpsons, for example. The epitome of Kubrick's professional exactitude and austere vision, "2001" examines, with a good deal of irony, humankind's role in the cosmos, a lofty cinematic ambition, to put it mildly. Notably (but not surprisingly, for Kubrick), the film's most human character is the unstable super-computer Hal, identified by the late critic Gene Siskel as the greatest villain in cinema history; his creepily mannered voice was the inspiration for Anthony Hopkins's performance as Hannibal Lector. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/
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