Which is your favorite Stanley Kubrick film? He is a brilliant director so it's hard to choose only one, Strangelove is always hilarious, The Shining is the one I saw the most and 2001 is just an unbelievable experience every time.
2001. The film has changed my life to the point it has become a long time obsessive passion for me. If there was a stunningly beautiful film to fall in love with it’s this one. Just truly astonishing. Words cannot express how 2001 continues to haunt my mind and soul to this day (though in a good way). Thank you, Stanley Kubrick! (It goes without saying my YT avatar somewhat gives away the answer to your question!)
For me, my favorite will always be 'Dr. Strangelove', but that may be the circumstances under which I first saw it. It was shown on Halfway Night in the middle of a 60 day underwater patrol on a ballistic missile submarine. Think about it, 45 sailors on the mess deck, just above the launch control room, just ahead of the missile deck, watching the crew of the B-52, battered and bruised, struggling on to deliver their bomb. We saw the foolishness of what they were doing but we also felt the drive and the duty to do it. '2001' is a great movie, but it doesn't hit me in the gut the way Dr. Strangelove does.
I used to babysit Stanley Kubrick's nephews. Their dad was Jan Harlan, his exec producer, a very kind man. I met Stanley when they were all off on a night out. He was very nice, too. What a guy, changed cinema, and respected babysitters.
@wilsel1394 That's great, Jan Harlan seems like the sweetest person and a lot of people around Kubrick talked about how nice he was to talk to, despite all the criticism of his work ethic.
The Starchild's face has always been my first memory. I was four years old in 1968 and my parents decided to see the 2001 A Space Odyssey. They couldn't arrange a babysitter so they decided to take me to the movie. For a long time I thought I saw myself in my mother`s womb or something. Took me the best part of a 40 year long journey of wonder and imagination to realize that it had been my odyssey as well. Awesome Movie. In every true cinephile`s top 10 of all time, most probably.
I saw it as a ten year old. we took the train to Philadelphia to see it on the big 70mm screen. I was in awe. It was so beautiful, powerful and confusing. A woman a few seats down from me, said in a loud voice, "Ill give $50 bucks to anyone who can explain that movie." I still remember that. I had to read the book in order to understand it. I watched at a Cinerama theater in the 90's and it was still amazing. I watched it at home last year on my laptop and it still is amazing.
Wendy had to respond, in 1968 during Christmas break when I was 10 my mom took me to NYC we lived on Long Island to the Cinerama theater to see this movie. I was blown away and remembered telling my mom afterwards that when this all happens I’ll be 41 and can’t wait to see it really happen. After the film we went to dinner Buttoni the food company had a restaurant at the time in midtown. What a treat to not only go to Manhattan to see a film but to go out to eat. We were lower middle class I guess you could say and going to a restaurant was very very special to me. I finally read the book and Clarke’s “The Lost Worlds Of 2001” 20 years later and finally understood what I saw when I was 10. All I can say is the world was such a wonderful place to me in 1968 but not for everyone. What we thought was going to happen didn’t in some cases and what we never thought could happen did.
I just watched it for the first time in my 30. I'm glad it was so significant for you. I enjoyed the scenes with HAL and some of the visuals were intriguing. But overall the movie was boring and nonsensical.
I showed an interest in sci fi, my dad took me to seen it on release....I was 8...mind blown! Fueled a life long thirst for good sci fi..Best film I have ever seen!!
I wish I had seen it then, might have ignited my interest in science fiction and my love for the works of Arthur C. Clarke earlier. As it was, had to wait another 6 years or so.
@Russell, Did you see it in 70mm? I never had the chance. 'The Brothers Grimm' movie, yes (1962), but the two side screenpanels showed all too clearly seams...
I too, was 8 (in 1968) when I first saw it. For the two weeks it was in my little prairie city, I must have gone to see it, easily a dozen times (most of them alone or with friends)-I'd sit through 3-screenings in one day. The awe and wonder of the film was mesmerizing. It is the only sci-fi movie, where space travel was presented in an authentic and realistic manner. The silence of space; the breathing of the astronauts in their suits; no engine noises or 'swooshing' as spacecraft flew by… just deafening silence and a magnificent accompanying score for a soundtrack. The late 60s was a great time to be a kid.
@@MelioraCogito I wish I could have enjoyed your experience as a then 9 year old. As it was, I became obsessed with the film by age 15, and all things Arthur C. Clarke, for that matter. I must have read five books by now in the inception, production and lore of “2001”. As it was in the late ‘60s, I agree, a fabulous time, have fond memories of seeing “Marooned” and “Beneath the Planet of the Apes” on initial release.
My 9-year-old mind did not fully understand the movie when I saw it in 1968, but I could not look away and I've been hooked on sci-fi ever since. Many thanks to all involved for a lifetime of inspiration and memories.
Stanley was a true movie maker in so many ways, but one of the most important was that he did the editing. This is one of the most important aspects of any video or film production. Proper editing can make the difference between failure and success.
I am now 72. I saw 2001 first in UK, where it was first shown in Movie theatres. I was 15 and it just blew me away! I was RIVETED from the beginning. I had never seen or heard anything like it. I remember seeing people leave the cinema in ones and twos, but could NOT understand why! My friends and I were some of those who went to see the movie again and again, sitting in the front rows smoking dope. Since that first experience, I have watched it time and time again, getting people I love to experience with me, the utter genius of that movie. my younger brother and then all his friends. WHAT AN AMAZING MOVIE.
@@davidstevenson404 Usher before the main movie even started: "Sir, why are you consuming only one beaker with popcorn, and just one supercoke? I ask you to leave, we do not tolerate antisocial behavior." These days it seems that even breathing in the cinema theater is no longer permitted.
You sound like an amazing man. Incredibly jealous of this experience. i’m 25 and the film still blew my mind. It looks better than any sci fi film ever, both in terms of cinematography and “vfx!” Features incredible acting (and voice acting heh), and it’s just a philosophical mind destroyer, I cried and didn’t know what to do for several hours the first time I watched about a decade ago, rewatching it now it’s just as profound. Reading your description put a big ole smile on my face - thank you sir. Unfortunately I’m not sure anything like it will ever be produced again
Same for me. My parents drove us into London to see it on the massive screen it was originally shown on. I’d never experienced anything like it and could talk about anything else for weeks.
One of the most impressively crafted movie ever in terms of technical achievements and how well the visuals developed at a time when computers were limited and it took cleaver and intellectual mind power to achieve.
Clarke wanted to set the movie in the 2060's which is where he expected our technology depicted in the film to be by that point, but Kubrick wanted it to be a year within the lifetimes of the average viewer in 1968 so that they could relate to it more. To be more personal than possible. That is why Kubrick settled on the year 2001. Plus it was the first year of the next millennium. It's not because that they had hoped we'd be that advanced in 2001 as alleged in the documentary above. They were very realistic.
I was in HS when this broke. Kids were coming to class with color plate brochures of the film. We saw it in a high-end theater with super cinemascope. What an experience!! Nothing like it after that.
@larryaldrich4351 I saw the initial release in high school and was stoned on mescaline . I saw a week later and it was totally epic and in fact better. I saw little things in this making of doc that I never understood. it keeps on giving .
I was an adult when this film was released. I'm an old man now. i really can't tell you how many times I've seen 2001. Seeing your video has reminded me that I haven't watched the masterpiece yet today. I'm going to put it on right now. !!
I love the comment about problem solving and how it is not taught in school. It is still not tought properly in school, and there is an unhealthy obsesstion with learning programming languages instead of general problem solving in my area, which is software development.
I was amazed at how Keir Dullea in 2010 (filmed in 1983) looked unaged from his 1967 appearance in 2001. Now when I see Keir, I think he resembles Alan Alda.
To say that 2001 space odyssey is a remarkable achievement is an absolute understatement. That movie is like the grand-daddy of all movies in a way that it shows what movies are supposed to do. His remarkable ability was in drawing the audience step by step , usually slowly , gently and sometimes forcefully into his world and at the end leaving you wondering whether the world is imaginary or real!
I watched it for the first time recently. It's so baffling and enigmatic, but also wonderful and breathtaking. There may never be another film like it.
I went in cold to Aliens - saw it twice in one day. I was only 3 when 2001 came out, finally saw it at 8 yrs old in cinerama and grokked it. Wish I could feel the same wonder and beauty of that first time in the dozens of the follow on viewings.
I remember going to see 2001 Space Odyssey with my Mom, Dad and Sister. I was Amazed and Thrilled. I thought 2001 , the year, was so far away that I wondered if I would still be alive. Remember, I was a little kid at the time. I was born in 1955. I think this movie motivated me to become a pilot. I flew corporate jets all over the world and I always looked up to the stars.😊
The big granddaddy of them all! Because of its mysteries, epic gaps in space and time, the astounding things it DOES manage to show, the viewer is compelled to "fill in the gaps" and come up with his or her own explanation of how something came to be and what it might mean, taking part in the creative act. This is its numinous power, something akin to a religious experience. Thanks for reminding us why we've always loved this movie!!!
I'm 63. My parents took me and my brother to a drive-in theatre to see 2001. My brother was 1.5 years younger than me and was uninterested in the film. I was just old enough, seven years old, to be captivated by the film. Seeing 2001 changed my life. I'm certain it was an important influence on my lifelong love of science-fiction. There are few movies I've watched as many times as 2001.
Love it. Thank you! My dad took me to see this incredible film, this experience, when it was first released. I was 13. Thank you, Dad. It's still my favorite movie of all time. ❤
Some random thoughts: The Blue Danube Waltz sequence remains the greatest classical music video of all time. One of the classical music points that is often overlooked is that Also Sprach Zarasthurtra, the opening fanfare of which - now seemingly established permanently in our advertising culture -- is a key to understanding film. If you read commentary on Strauss's program for the piece, the film - even the Starchild sequence --- becomes less mysterious. And it amusing to see the film's assumptions about the continuity of 1960s commercial culture into the future, like a spacecraft being operated by PanAm.
Saw it in Paris 1968 in huge almost empty theater. Walking out into the night afterwards and looking right up at a gigantic full moon was one of the most goosebumpy moments of my entire life. (Plus I had a huge crush on Gary Lockwood ❤)
Space Odyssey is one of my favourite films and Arthur S. Clark is my favourite sci-fi writer. I remember my emotions from childhood when I have watch Space Odyssey, Alien, Star wars and other sci-fi films about space. I has wish of extended hands and touch this decorations, costumes and characters.
I love sci-fi novels and Arthur C. Clarke is also my favorite. I adore his concepts and stories, only a handful of other sci-fi authors blew my mind as much as him.
I went to see a special showing of this at the Cinerama Dome a few years ago. The audience kept laughing at various scenes that were not intended to be funny, no doubt having been trained on the serious/joke tempo of Marvel films and expecting that. When the crowd errupted in guffaws during the "Please Stop, Dave" scene I walked out. Pearls before swine.
They're just too ignorant. Not worth the significant scientific background of this movie. The only thing that bothered me watching the movie without having read the book is the stargate scene and the aging sequence of Dave resulting in a floating baby. Didn't understand that (pretty long) sequence at all.
I saw it when I was a teen when it first came out in 1968 in The Plaza Theatre in Sydney and I honestly felt like I had been taken on a real voyage through space. I recall stumbling out into the afternoon sunshine totally dazed. The following year we were herded into the school assembly hall to watch the first Apollo landing. We waited for hours before that first step for a man. I was an aerospace nerd and knew what an unprecedented technical triumph it was - we had just watched history in real time - yet after 2001 it felt disappointing. I must have watched it maybe 12-15 times for years and swore I would give it a rest. I did, for decades. Then I happened to be in Hollywood on business and guess what was playing at the Cinerama Dome. It was a sign. I feared it would feel dated, but I was wrong. Behind me was an enthusiastic middle aged dad and his teenage son. The kid complained all the way through the movie. "Why are they playing all this old music?", "Were are the aliens?", "Why is everything so slow?", "When do the fight scenes start?" His dad did his best to explain and calm him down but he finally lost it during the Stargate sequence. "What the f**k was all that s**t!!?" Like his dad, I was part of a 2001 generation but the boy had descended from StarWars and he was totally lost. To this day, I still think 2001 was the greatest science fiction film ever made. I just can't imagine how he could have imagined it. I was in LA that day as part of my job as a vfx cameraman, overseeing a motion control rig being built for us up here in Canada. In hindsight, I wonder if I would ever have taken an interest in motion picture vfx if not for Stanley Kubrick. I've worked in vfx for over 40 years - still do. I guess I really owe the man. Beyond a few hours of 70mm inspiration, he gave me a career.
@@tsegulin There’s a cinerama theater up here in Seattle, but they don’t seem to show any of those movies anymore. Other than Alien Romulus to pull in some real money, it’s really obscure stuff. I like foreign language movies, but this is beyond that, intellectualism that such types can impress each with, art festival cinema. I might call tomorrow, and find out what their problem is? I’ll report back my findings soon.
Such an influential film. I saw it when it was first released, and saw it again several times during the one year (!) that it was in our local theatre. My best friend saw it even more often. He went on the become and astronomer and worked for NASA.
I saw it age 13. It changed the direction of my life completely, and I grew up to eventually become a professional photographer. It was projected on to a huge Cinerama screen with surround sound, I had my first (of many!) out of body experience. I still watch it now once every two years or so.
Not underrated, actually. He was widely heralded as a first-rate director going all the way back to films like his initial outing, “The Killing” and later “Spartacus”.
I was 13 when I saw it in 1975. It was a rerun and we piled onto a bus and went into town on a class trip to see it. Our teachers thought it would be a good experience for us. For a long time after I didn't really understand the end sequence of the star gate but being absolutely entranced by the space plane and the space station . It remains one of the greatest films I have seen.
I saw 2001 in Barcelona with a live orchestra and choir. This was in January 2020, not a month before things started to lock down. Ligeti's Requiem was unforgettable.
An amazing achievement. Only a few frames show their age. Such a great storyline and authentic production. Theres a book "The Lost Worlds of 2001" describing the evolution of the storyline during production and especially the types of aliens considered.
I've seen it in the 80s in cinema at the age of 16. We were not many. Maybe at max 30 viewers. Even during intermission going to restroom and so on, noone talked. Not a single word I heard til I left cinema. I was stunned and have no idea how I got home.
I saw this film twice with my father in a theater in Monterey, CA and in High School auditorium later. When I first saw it, unlike all that came before, the script didn’t explain the story, you had to pay attention and think what the hell was going on.
Thanks for putting together such a beautiful and insightful homage to such a brilliant film. I’m sure Kubrick would have been impressed by your storytelling and editing timing. Bravo!
The use of miniature sets instead of CGI is what makes it hold up even today. And it's a influential way of making scenes. Like in Lord of the Rings they adapted this too.
At 21:17 you talk about the vets returning from WWII and going to college on the G.I. Bill. When my Mom was in college, the classes with vets were the hardest because they worked their asses off.
Saw it in 70mm in 2017 and it changed my life yet again. Such a timeless and prescient film. I recommend the documentary “Kubrick by Kubrick” if you haven’t seen it already.
I did see 2001 in London in 70mm print (at the Empire Leicester Square if I remember correctly). It was truly incredible in every way - including the soundscape (5 or 6 channel?) - which these reviews and comments don't seem to have mentioned. It was amazing to feel part of the scene with the sound perspective changing with every edit in some scenes. It was so effective to feel a part of the ape clan viewing the monolith. Clarke and Kubrick and (all the creative cinematographers, special effects, athletes and actors) - it's uncompromising and it's true genius.
At a young age I had little or no interest in classical music. As I matured my mind kept going back to those scenes of the docking to the space station with the sounds of Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube Waltz. Thank you Mr.Kubrick.
The first time I saw 2001 was in Honolulu in 1968 when I was 15. My high school took us on a field trip to the Honolulu Cinerama to see it. That was an unforgettable experience. The Cinerama Theater was new, plush, streamlined, almost as if it was an extension of one of the spaceships in the film. We were surrounded by the curving screen. It felt like we were in the movie. The film itself was profound, mind bending, transporting. I can't say how strongly it moved me. Plus, seeing it with all my schoolmates was like a deep, shared religious experience. We were blown away. Every aspect was perfect, including the use of sound and music, an accomplishment that no other director has ever been able to reproduce. It's my all-time favorite film.
I first watched 2001 on TV when my dad recorded it in VHS in the 80s and he was in awe of it. Later, in the early 90s I watched it over and over, purely for the vibe, to be honest I had little idea what it was about but the visuals and the sound were enough. I then saw it the cinema in the early 90s and it was life changing. Watching it today in 4K one realises just how remarkable the technical achievement was and it stands up today. Few 50 year old movies can do that.
A film so wonderful that watching documentaries about it is more fun than watching most other films. I've easily watched '2001' in excess of 100 times.
17:30, I love seeing the joy in his face when talking about how laptops/computers can have and even develop a personality, it's so wholesome. 08/27/2024, 6:54am
I remember going to the theatre in 1968 to see this film with my father. I was 9 years old at the time. After it was over, I didn't understand it all, but I was in awe of the cinephotography in the film. My father just looked at me and said, What the fuck was that all about? I didn't know what to say, so I just nodded my head and felt there was no use trying to explain it to him. I did read the Arthur C Clarke novel before seeing the film.
I saw it the summer of 1968 @ 9 yrs old and it had probably the biggest impact of any single movie. I then bought the book and it added to the understanding of the film. I still love the movie to this day.
2001 a Space Odyssey is a visual masterpiece. You are not meant to understand the story because the story itself spans millions of years and is told from the point of view of more than one intelligence.
According to author Arthur C. Clarke, the expectation was that the audience WAS supposed to understand the film, which is why he cried at the premiere-he was convinced it was going to be hated and panned. Recall that Clarke’s novel, written coincident with the joint writing of the screenplay, was highly expository.
Nice video. I've seen many videos and read about this film. It's widely known that the music he was given, or even paid for, he was very unhappy with, so when he was editing he often played the famous classical song and it grew on him to the point that he actually used it. Thanks.
Hilarious! I worked at an art store with a warehouse that had a roll up door. The warehouse workers were Dave and Hal. Heard so many times: Dave: Open the pod bay doors, Hal. Hal: I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave. 😂
I revere this film so much that I forced myself to look away when the star gate was being shown, just because I want to save the beauty for the next time I watch it Awesome video
I was just about to start art college and I saw this film with my folks, the first thing even before I got inside was the extraordinary printed media in the foyer, it was the first laser printed style 3D posters and cards with the 2001 images that really took my breath away as they looked really 3D, then watching this amazing film was stunned into silence and awe at how it was so completely new and it gave me goose bumps all the way through, it was a fest of art and imagination coming at me, I was changed after that movie, and it so linked up with my then going to start art college. What it did for me was not so much about the physical future but something stirred inside me that had been dormant, an excitement of inner exploration, that it was achievable and in fact immanent.
The movie profoundly affected me, and I saw it clearly have profound affects on many friends. The movie 2001 is as close to a religious experience as a secular sci-fi movie can be.
when I first saw 2001 a Space Odyssey I was nine ( my dad took me ). I almost felt asleep, too long and couldn't understand. It it's not until a few years ago (I'm 69 now) that I saw it for the second time and realized what a brilliant piece of art it is, Mr Kubrick was an amazing film director and visionary.
One of the things we fail to consider when we think about a movie from the past like this, is the audience watching it. When this film came out there had never been anything remotely like it- everything about it, the story, the landscapes, the images- were all completely new and starkly different from anything they had ever seen. It also was one of the first films to use music in the way it did, to have long sections of the film with no dialogue, or to introduce such deep, meaningful concepts. It's no wonder that it hit so many ppl the way it did- if it came out now- it wouldn't have that kind of impact, at all. The Exorcist was like this- even more so. Ppl wonder why it had such an impact and why it gets so much attention- but you have to consider how innocent and naive the ppl who watched it when it came out really where. They had never seen even a naked butt on television or heard a single curse word, never seen blood or gore of any kind, never seen anyone include religious themes in their movies, etc. And all the sudden there's this movie where a young teen girl masturbates with a crucifix and says those immortal lines "Let Jesus f$%K you!", her head is spinning around, she's floating up off the bed, I mean just the fact that it was about exorcism and had all these religious themes in it- freaked ppl out massively, but then all the special effects- it was just plain too much for a lot of ppl to handle. Ppl were passing out, throwing up, having to be picked up by the ambulance at the theaters. If that same movie came out now- kids would laugh at it- they think it's silly. And most adults wouldn't even notice.
I remember seeing 2001 in the theater when it 1st was released I was 11 yo. I also remember seeing in the theater Beatles Hard Days Night in 1964, I was 8 yo. Wow time flies.
I saw 2001 as a 10 year old boy, when a student teacher took a group of us to the theatre, and it blew my mind. I'm sure it was a huge influence on my deep psyche throughout my life. As I look back now at the Prima-donna actors, the corrupt movie bosses and twisted narratives I find myself wondering how much Stanley really knew of the reality of our world, and the things he encoded into his works, particularly Eyes Wide Shut.
Actually, all of Kubrick's films were difficult to make. Yes, technically 2001 was monumentally difficult as Kubrick was pioneering techniques never used, but he didn't require top actors for the roles. They simply had to be competent. The demands he makes on actors in his later films recasts the concept of "difficult."
Which is your favorite Stanley Kubrick film?
He is a brilliant director so it's hard to choose only one, Strangelove is always hilarious, The Shining is the one I saw the most and 2001 is just an unbelievable experience every time.
2001, then Barry Lyndon, Then either Lolita or Clockwork Orange.
2001. The film has changed my life to the point it has become a long time obsessive passion for me.
If there was a stunningly beautiful film to fall in love with it’s this one. Just truly astonishing. Words cannot express how 2001 continues to haunt my mind and soul to this day (though in a good way).
Thank you, Stanley Kubrick!
(It goes without saying my YT avatar somewhat gives away the answer to your question!)
@@Johnconno You know that isn't a Kubrick movie. Why did you say that?
The Killing has always been a personal favorite.
For me, my favorite will always be 'Dr. Strangelove', but that may be the circumstances under which I first saw it. It was shown on Halfway Night in the middle of a 60 day underwater patrol on a ballistic missile submarine. Think about it, 45 sailors on the mess deck, just above the launch control room, just ahead of the missile deck, watching the crew of the B-52, battered and bruised, struggling on to deliver their bomb. We saw the foolishness of what they were doing but we also felt the drive and the duty to do it. '2001' is a great movie, but it doesn't hit me in the gut the way Dr. Strangelove does.
I used to babysit Stanley Kubrick's nephews. Their dad was Jan Harlan, his exec producer, a very kind man. I met Stanley when they were all off on a night out. He was very nice, too. What a guy, changed cinema, and respected babysitters.
@wilsel1394 That's great, Jan Harlan seems like the sweetest person and a lot of people around Kubrick talked about how nice he was to talk to, despite all the criticism of his work ethic.
Amazing perspective.
wow, i want his signature
Cool. Glad he was kind.
Lucky 😮 he’s one of my hero’s
The Starchild's face has always been my first memory. I was four years old in 1968 and my parents decided to see the 2001 A Space Odyssey. They couldn't arrange a babysitter so they decided to take me to the movie. For a long time I thought I saw myself in my mother`s womb or something. Took me the best part of a 40 year long journey of wonder and imagination to realize that it had been my odyssey as well. Awesome Movie. In every true cinephile`s top 10 of all time, most probably.
I saw it as a ten year old. we took the train to Philadelphia to see it on the big 70mm screen. I was in awe. It was so beautiful, powerful and confusing. A woman a few seats down from me, said in a loud voice, "Ill give $50 bucks to anyone who can explain that movie." I still remember that. I had to read the book in order to understand it. I watched at a Cinerama theater in the 90's and it was still amazing. I watched it at home last year on my laptop and it still is amazing.
Wendy had to respond, in 1968 during Christmas break when I was 10 my mom took me to NYC we lived on Long Island to the Cinerama theater to see this movie. I was blown away and remembered telling my mom afterwards that when this all happens I’ll be 41 and can’t wait to see it really happen. After the film we went to dinner Buttoni the food company had a restaurant at the time in midtown. What a treat to not only go to Manhattan to see a film but to go out to eat. We were lower middle class I guess you could say and going to a restaurant was very very special to me. I finally read the book and Clarke’s “The Lost Worlds Of 2001” 20 years later and finally understood what I saw when I was 10. All I can say is the world was such a wonderful place to me in 1968 but not for everyone. What we thought was going to happen didn’t in some cases and what we never thought could happen did.
Did either read the original short story the book/movie were based on? (The Sentinel, by Arthur Clarke).
Amazing directors make amazing movies !
I just watched it for the first time in my 30. I'm glad it was so significant for you. I enjoyed the scenes with HAL and some of the visuals were intriguing. But overall the movie was boring and nonsensical.
I showed an interest in sci fi, my dad took me to seen it on release....I was 8...mind blown! Fueled a life long thirst for good sci fi..Best film I have ever seen!!
I wish I had seen it then, might have ignited my interest in science fiction and my love for the works of Arthur C. Clarke earlier. As it was, had to wait another 6 years or so.
Good for your Dad
@Russell,
Did you see it in 70mm? I never had the chance. 'The Brothers Grimm' movie, yes (1962), but the two side screenpanels showed all too clearly seams...
I too, was 8 (in 1968) when I first saw it. For the two weeks it was in my little prairie city, I must have gone to see it, easily a dozen times (most of them alone or with friends)-I'd sit through 3-screenings in one day. The awe and wonder of the film was mesmerizing. It is the only sci-fi movie, where space travel was presented in an authentic and realistic manner. The silence of space; the breathing of the astronauts in their suits; no engine noises or 'swooshing' as spacecraft flew by… just deafening silence and a magnificent accompanying score for a soundtrack.
The late 60s was a great time to be a kid.
@@MelioraCogito I wish I could have enjoyed your experience as a then 9 year old. As it was, I became obsessed with the film by age 15, and all things Arthur C. Clarke, for that matter. I must have read five books by now in the inception, production and lore of “2001”.
As it was in the late ‘60s, I agree, a fabulous time, have fond memories of seeing “Marooned” and “Beneath the Planet of the Apes” on initial release.
I wish this video had gone on for HOURS. Everything about the movie and Kubrick at work in those days, is pure Sense of Wonder.
My 9-year-old mind did not fully understand the movie when I saw it in 1968, but I could not look away and I've been hooked on sci-fi ever since. Many thanks to all involved for a lifetime of inspiration and memories.
Same here. I was 13 and remember asking my 15 year old brother to explain what we just saw. He was at a loss for words too.
Stanley was a true movie maker in so many ways, but one of the most important was that he did the editing. This is one of the most important aspects of any video or film production. Proper editing can make the difference between failure and success.
Agreed! Just look at Lucas's original cut of Star Wars. It was awful!
For sure!
I am now 72. I saw 2001 first in UK, where it was first shown in Movie theatres. I was 15 and it just blew me away! I was RIVETED from the beginning. I had never seen or heard anything like it. I remember seeing people leave the cinema in ones and twos, but could NOT understand why! My friends and I were some of those who went to see the movie again and again, sitting in the front rows smoking dope. Since that first experience, I have watched it time and time again, getting people I love to experience with me, the utter genius of that movie. my younger brother and then all his friends.
WHAT AN AMAZING MOVIE.
Smoking ' ' ...LUCKY man!!!
@@davidstevenson404
Usher before the main movie even started: "Sir, why are you consuming only one beaker with popcorn, and just one supercoke? I ask you to leave, we do not tolerate antisocial behavior."
These days it seems that even breathing in the cinema theater is no longer permitted.
You sound like an amazing man. Incredibly jealous of this experience. i’m 25 and the film still blew my mind. It looks better than any sci fi film ever, both in terms of cinematography and “vfx!” Features incredible acting (and voice acting heh), and it’s just a philosophical mind destroyer, I cried and didn’t know what to do for several hours the first time I watched about a decade ago, rewatching it now it’s just as profound. Reading your description put a big ole smile on my face - thank you sir. Unfortunately I’m not sure anything like it will ever be produced again
Same for me. My parents drove us into London to see it on the massive screen it was originally shown on. I’d never experienced anything like it and could talk about anything else for weeks.
A staggering achievement. The benchmark for films, not just SF films, that make you think.
One of the most impressively crafted movie ever in terms of technical achievements and how well the visuals developed at a time when computers were limited and it took cleaver and intellectual mind power to achieve.
Clarke wanted to set the movie in the 2060's which is where he expected our technology depicted in the film to be by that point, but Kubrick wanted it to be a year within the lifetimes of the average viewer in 1968 so that they could relate to it more. To be more personal than possible. That is why Kubrick settled on the year 2001. Plus it was the first year of the next millennium. It's not because that they had hoped we'd be that advanced in 2001 as alleged in the documentary above. They were very realistic.
I was in HS when this broke. Kids were coming to class with color plate brochures of the film. We saw it in a high-end theater with super cinemascope. What an experience!! Nothing like it after that.
My favorite movie. Never get tired of it. See something new each time I watch it.😊
@larryaldrich4351 I saw the initial release in high school and was stoned on mescaline . I saw a week later and it was totally epic and in fact better. I saw little things in this making of doc that I never understood. it keeps on giving .
I saw it in 1968 in Toronto. It was a vivid experience. The audience was stunned from the opening onwards.
Ran for years at the Eglington. Saw it in 69.
I saw it at the University Theatre in 1973 or 74. Huge cinema - too bad it's gone.😢
@@tlots2345 - It is still here! Buy a Copy !
I was an adult when this film was released. I'm an old man now. i really can't tell you how many times I've seen 2001. Seeing your video has reminded me that I haven't watched the masterpiece yet today. I'm going to put it on right now. !!
I love the comment about problem solving and how it is not taught in school. It is still not tought properly in school, and there is an unhealthy obsesstion with learning programming languages instead of general problem solving in my area, which is software development.
It’s interesting to see Keir Dullea as an old man looking so much like Dave as an old man
they did such a good job back then!
I was amazed at how Keir Dullea in 2010 (filmed in 1983) looked unaged from his 1967 appearance in 2001. Now when I see Keir, I think he resembles Alan Alda.
To say that 2001 space odyssey is a remarkable achievement is an absolute understatement. That movie is like the grand-daddy of all movies in a way that it shows what movies are supposed to do. His remarkable ability was in drawing the audience step by step , usually slowly , gently and sometimes forcefully into his world and at the end leaving you wondering whether the world is imaginary or real!
I watched it for the first time recently. It's so baffling and enigmatic, but also wonderful and breathtaking. There may never be another film like it.
With every film he made, Kubrick created new ways to expand film language and our visual understanding.
He was pretty much the Shakespeare of film.
No, Kubrick is not like Shakespeare or anyone else! He is an original !
I remember this movie on the big screen very vividly and will never forget it. I wish Kubrick was still with us, so much!
I was some 19 og 20. It changed my life in many ways. I saw it 3 times -- during the same week!
19 or 20
I went in cold to Aliens - saw it twice in one day.
I was only 3 when 2001 came out, finally saw it at 8 yrs old in cinerama and grokked it. Wish I could feel the same wonder and beauty of that first time in the dozens of the follow on viewings.
Everytime I hear Keir Dullea some inner part of my soul wakes up like a woodland animal hearing a distant noise.
Thank you for posting this. Many films are labelled as 'important', but this is one of the few truly deserving of that epithet.
I remember going to see 2001 Space Odyssey with my Mom, Dad and Sister. I was Amazed and Thrilled.
I thought 2001 , the year, was so far away that I wondered if I would still be alive. Remember, I was a little kid at the time. I was born in 1955.
I think this movie motivated me to become a pilot. I flew corporate jets all over the world and I always looked up to the stars.😊
Cineplex (🇨🇦) had ran the Stanley Kubrick film series back in April, so I had the privilege of watching many of his films in theatres.
Ran for years at the Eglington.
The big granddaddy of them all! Because of its mysteries, epic gaps in space and time, the astounding things it DOES manage to show, the viewer is compelled to "fill in the gaps" and come up with his or her own explanation of how something came to be and what it might mean, taking part in the creative act. This is its numinous power, something akin to a religious experience. Thanks for reminding us why we've always loved this movie!!!
I'm 63. My parents took me and my brother to a drive-in theatre to see 2001. My brother was 1.5 years younger than me and was uninterested in the film. I was just old enough, seven years old, to be captivated by the film. Seeing 2001 changed my life. I'm certain it was an important influence on my lifelong love of science-fiction. There are few movies I've watched as many times as 2001.
Love it. Thank you! My dad took me to see this incredible film, this experience, when it was first released. I was 13.
Thank you, Dad.
It's still my favorite movie of all time. ❤
The Set designer and Builders.. absolutely Amazing work... The Rotating Space Station.. filming while rotating..
Some random thoughts: The Blue Danube Waltz sequence remains the greatest classical music video of all time. One of the classical music points that is often overlooked is that Also Sprach Zarasthurtra, the opening fanfare of which - now seemingly established permanently in our advertising culture -- is a key to understanding film. If you read commentary on Strauss's program for the piece, the film - even the Starchild sequence --- becomes less mysterious. And it amusing to see the film's assumptions about the continuity of 1960s commercial culture into the future, like a spacecraft being operated by PanAm.
We thought it was interesting, and somewhat humorous, that they had a Hilton Hotel up there situated across from a HoJo's restaurant.
It was correct about commercialization, though underestimating how closely married capitalism and big tech would become.
cough*Starliner*cough
Like so many other things, PanAm has disappeared - not so the classic and everlasting '2001 a Space Odyssey' !
Saw it in Paris 1968 in huge almost empty theater. Walking out into the night afterwards and looking right up at a gigantic full moon was one of the most goosebumpy moments of my entire life. (Plus I had a huge crush on Gary Lockwood ❤)
Space Odyssey is one of my favourite films and Arthur S. Clark is my favourite sci-fi writer. I remember my emotions from childhood when I have watch Space Odyssey, Alien, Star wars and other sci-fi films about space. I has wish of extended hands and touch this decorations, costumes and characters.
I love sci-fi novels and Arthur C. Clarke is also my favorite. I adore his concepts and stories, only a handful of other sci-fi authors blew my mind as much as him.
@@JustOneMoreThing_YT his novels have give me dreams who I hope to make in future! Greetings from western Siberia!
I went to see a special showing of this at the Cinerama Dome a few years ago.
The audience kept laughing at various scenes that were not intended to be funny, no doubt having been trained on the serious/joke tempo of Marvel films and expecting that. When the crowd errupted in guffaws during the "Please Stop, Dave" scene I walked out.
Pearls before swine.
They're just too ignorant. Not worth the significant scientific background of this movie. The only thing that bothered me watching the movie without having read the book is the stargate scene and the aging sequence of Dave resulting in a floating baby. Didn't understand that (pretty long) sequence at all.
Just another illustration of the tsunami of arrogant adolescent attitudes that have swept away thousands of years of common sense.
I saw it when I was a teen when it first came out in 1968 in The Plaza Theatre in Sydney and I honestly felt like I had been taken on a real voyage through space. I recall stumbling out into the afternoon sunshine totally dazed. The following year we were herded into the school assembly hall to watch the first Apollo landing. We waited for hours before that first step for a man. I was an aerospace nerd and knew what an unprecedented technical triumph it was - we had just watched history in real time - yet after 2001 it felt disappointing. I must have watched it maybe 12-15 times for years and swore I would give it a rest. I did, for decades.
Then I happened to be in Hollywood on business and guess what was playing at the Cinerama Dome. It was a sign.
I feared it would feel dated, but I was wrong. Behind me was an enthusiastic middle aged dad and his teenage son. The kid complained all the way through the movie. "Why are they playing all this old music?", "Were are the aliens?", "Why is everything so slow?", "When do the fight scenes start?" His dad did his best to explain and calm him down but he finally lost it during the Stargate sequence. "What the f**k was all that s**t!!?" Like his dad, I was part of a 2001 generation but the boy had descended from StarWars and he was totally lost. To this day, I still think 2001 was the greatest science fiction film ever made. I just can't imagine how he could have imagined it.
I was in LA that day as part of my job as a vfx cameraman, overseeing a motion control rig being built for us up here in Canada. In hindsight, I wonder if I would ever have taken an interest in motion picture vfx if not for Stanley Kubrick. I've worked in vfx for over 40 years - still do. I guess I really owe the man.
Beyond a few hours of 70mm inspiration, he gave me a career.
@@tsegulin There’s a cinerama theater up here in Seattle, but they don’t seem to show any of those movies anymore. Other than Alien Romulus to pull in some real money, it’s really obscure stuff. I like foreign language movies, but this is beyond that, intellectualism that such types can impress each with, art festival cinema. I might call tomorrow, and find out what their problem is? I’ll report back my findings soon.
They were laughing at how bad it was.
Such an influential film. I saw it when it was first released, and saw it again several times during the one year (!) that it was in our local theatre. My best friend saw it even more often. He went on the become and astronomer and worked for NASA.
I saw it age 13. It changed the direction of my life completely, and I grew up to eventually become a professional photographer. It was projected on to a huge Cinerama screen with surround sound, I had my first (of many!) out of body experience. I still watch it now once every two years or so.
Weaving a coherent story out of nothing but clips is an unbelievably impressive achievement. Well done, this is incredible 👏
Stanley Cuberick! Tragically underrated director of our age! RIP and thank you for your service!
One could say he is cultishly overrated.
Not underrated, actually. He was widely heralded as a first-rate director going all the way back to films like his initial outing, “The Killing” and later “Spartacus”.
*Amazing! I have the DVD and watch it whenever!? This & Clockwork Orange are my jam* ⭐️
I was 13 when I saw it in 1975. It was a rerun and we piled onto a bus and went into town on a class trip to see it. Our teachers thought it would be a good experience for us. For a long time after I didn't really understand the end sequence of the star gate but being absolutely entranced by the space plane and the space station . It remains one of the greatest films I have seen.
You had amazing and risk-taking teachers.
Barry Lyndon and 2001 aren't movies, they're monuments.
Yeah, and Strangelove ain't no slouch either.
Agree!
Barry Lyndon is was one of my favorite movies.
2001 is damn good.
I saw 2001 in Barcelona with a live orchestra and choir. This was in January 2020, not a month before things started to lock down. Ligeti's Requiem was unforgettable.
An amazing achievement. Only a few frames show their age. Such a great storyline and authentic production. Theres a book "The Lost Worlds of 2001" describing the evolution of the storyline during production and especially the types of aliens considered.
I OWN it (youtube bought) LOLOL
as it were so to speak...
I've seen it in the 80s in cinema at the age of 16. We were not many. Maybe at max 30 viewers. Even during intermission going to restroom and so on, noone talked. Not a single word I heard til I left cinema. I was stunned and have no idea how I got home.
I saw this film twice with my father in a theater in Monterey, CA and in High School auditorium later. When I first saw it, unlike all that came before, the script didn’t explain the story, you had to pay attention and think what the hell was going on.
I met Arthur C. Clark as a child when I lived in Sri Lanka. And when I returned I used to go to his open house in Childwickbury, where he lived.
Thanks for putting together such a beautiful and insightful homage to such a brilliant film. I’m sure Kubrick would have been impressed by your storytelling and editing timing. Bravo!
This is excellent! So well-assembled with lots of content i’ve never seen or heard before. Thank you for this!
Excellent. I saw it in 1968 in Huntington, WVA and it blew me away.
The use of miniature sets instead of CGI is what makes it hold up even today. And it's a influential way of making scenes. Like in Lord of the Rings they adapted this too.
The models were great but I still think ILM did it better in Star Wars.
@@phill6859 1:48 looks like ILM
At 21:17 you talk about the vets returning from WWII and going to college on the G.I. Bill. When my Mom was in college, the classes with vets were the hardest because they worked their asses off.
Saw it in 70mm in 2017 and it changed my life yet again. Such a timeless and prescient film. I recommend the documentary “Kubrick by Kubrick” if you haven’t seen it already.
Oh wow! Lucky! 😮😊
1:43 Always liked the way Arthur C. Clarke says the word "moon."
Rather like TH-cam Scott Manley.
I did see 2001 in London in 70mm print (at the Empire Leicester Square if I remember correctly). It was truly incredible in every way - including the soundscape (5 or 6 channel?) - which these reviews and comments don't seem to have mentioned. It was amazing to feel part of the scene with the sound perspective changing with every edit in some scenes. It was so effective to feel a part of the ape clan viewing the monolith.
Clarke and Kubrick and (all the creative cinematographers, special effects, athletes and actors) - it's uncompromising and it's true genius.
i saw 2001 during the pandemic, it blew my mind.
During lockdown, I set up an outdoor cinema on a massive screen for me and my son to watch it. Had to wait for dark, so it was a very late one!
@@maryhaddock9145 i had a back yard to do something like that.
At a young age I had little or no interest in classical music. As I matured my mind kept going back to those scenes of the docking to the space station with the sounds of Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube Waltz. Thank you Mr.Kubrick.
I saw this film on release in 1968 and love it. I love The Shining even more, and I have a soft spot for Eyes Wide Shut and Barry Lyndon.
The first time I saw 2001 was in Honolulu in 1968 when I was 15. My high school took us on a field trip to the Honolulu Cinerama to see it. That was an unforgettable experience. The Cinerama Theater was new, plush, streamlined, almost as if it was an extension of one of the spaceships in the film. We were surrounded by the curving screen. It felt like we were in the movie. The film itself was profound, mind bending, transporting. I can't say how strongly it moved me. Plus, seeing it with all my schoolmates was like a deep, shared religious experience. We were blown away. Every aspect was perfect, including the use of sound and music, an accomplishment that no other director has ever been able to reproduce. It's my all-time favorite film.
I imagine Keir Dullea's make up artist was pleased he ended up looking like he did in the film when he aged 3:13
This is great, really well put together.
Very well done documentary about my favorite director and favorite film of all time... favorite sci-fi author, too!
I first watched 2001 on TV when my dad recorded it in VHS in the 80s and he was in awe of it. Later, in the early 90s I watched it over and over, purely for the vibe, to be honest I had little idea what it was about but the visuals and the sound were enough. I then saw it the cinema in the early 90s and it was life changing. Watching it today in 4K one realises just how remarkable the technical achievement was and it stands up today. Few 50 year old movies can do that.
A film so wonderful that watching documentaries about it is more fun than watching most other films. I've easily watched '2001' in excess of 100 times.
17:30, I love seeing the joy in his face when talking about how laptops/computers can have and even develop a personality, it's so wholesome.
08/27/2024, 6:54am
This film is absolutely an experience. All of his films are. I've seen them all many times, and every experience is different.
I remember going to the theatre in 1968 to see this film with my father. I was 9 years old at the time. After it was over, I didn't understand it all, but I was in awe of the cinephotography in the film. My father just looked at me and said, What the fuck was that all about? I didn't know what to say, so I just nodded my head and felt there was no use trying to explain it to him. I did read the Arthur C Clarke novel before seeing the film.
This is a wonderful collage, artfully composed. Thank you for sharing.
I've seen it numerous times and it never gets old. For me, it's the ultimate. Nothing else comes remotely close.
I saw it the summer of 1968 @ 9 yrs old and it had probably the biggest impact of any single movie. I then bought the book and it added to the understanding of the film. I still love the movie to this day.
2001 a Space Odyssey is a visual masterpiece. You are not meant to understand the story because the story itself spans millions of years and is told from the point of view of more than one intelligence.
According to author Arthur C. Clarke, the expectation was that the audience WAS supposed to understand the film, which is why he cried at the premiere-he was convinced it was going to be hated and panned. Recall that Clarke’s novel, written coincident with the joint writing of the screenplay, was highly expository.
@@historybuff66 With the exception of the soundtrack, 2001 was nearly a silent movie. It took 2010 to flesh out the story and fill in the gaps.
@@kachmi But as I stated, Clarke’s novel fits the bill perfectly, which is why book and film are perfect companion pieces.
GOSH, this doco is as good as the movie. 2001: A Space Odyssey is in my top 10. 😊
In my eyes you are Top YT content rn. Love from Mexico
Wow, thank you so much!
I still remember as a child seeing 2001 at the New Times 70 theater is Marion, Iowa. Blown away!!!
Nice video. I've seen many videos and read about this film. It's widely known that the music he was given, or even paid for, he was very unhappy with, so when he was editing he often played the famous classical song and it grew on him to the point that he actually used it. Thanks.
Hilarious! I worked at an art store with a warehouse that had a roll up door. The warehouse workers were Dave and Hal. Heard so many times:
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
Hal: I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave. 😂
I revere this film so much that I forced myself to look away when the star gate was being shown, just because I want to save the beauty for the next time I watch it
Awesome video
ur on the top of content creators, ur job is amazing and I love it
Thank you, it means a lot!
I was just about to start art college and I saw this film with my folks, the first thing even before I got inside was the extraordinary printed media in the foyer, it was the first laser printed style 3D posters and cards with the 2001 images that really took my breath away as they looked really 3D, then watching this amazing film was stunned into silence and awe at how it was so completely new and it gave me goose bumps all the way through, it was a fest of art and imagination coming at me, I was changed after that movie, and it so linked up with my then going to start art college. What it did for me was not so much about the physical future but something stirred inside me that had been dormant, an excitement of inner exploration, that it was achievable and in fact immanent.
The movie profoundly affected me, and I saw it clearly have profound affects on many friends. The movie 2001 is as close to a religious experience as a secular sci-fi movie can be.
Saw it at home on an old 25" B&W TV in the 5th or 6th grade.
Knocked me sideways.
Favorite film of all time.
- HA
I fell in love with this movie when I was a child and watch it at least once a year
Probably the greatest work of collaborative art ever made. It’s just as simple as that.
its just a stupid, never ending bmovie :D
That the floating pen scene was made using a brand new technology: double sided tape is mind blowing 🤯
An overview in keeping with quality of the film, well done.
when I first saw 2001 a Space Odyssey I was nine ( my dad took me ). I almost felt asleep, too long and couldn't understand. It it's not until a few years ago (I'm 69 now) that I saw it for the second time and realized what a brilliant piece of art it is, Mr Kubrick was an amazing film director and visionary.
One of the things we fail to consider when we think about a movie from the past like this, is the audience watching it. When this film came out there had never been anything remotely like it- everything about it, the story, the landscapes, the images- were all completely new and starkly different from anything they had ever seen. It also was one of the first films to use music in the way it did, to have long sections of the film with no dialogue, or to introduce such deep, meaningful concepts. It's no wonder that it hit so many ppl the way it did- if it came out now- it wouldn't have that kind of impact, at all. The Exorcist was like this- even more so. Ppl wonder why it had such an impact and why it gets so much attention- but you have to consider how innocent and naive the ppl who watched it when it came out really where. They had never seen even a naked butt on television or heard a single curse word, never seen blood or gore of any kind, never seen anyone include religious themes in their movies, etc. And all the sudden there's this movie where a young teen girl masturbates with a crucifix and says those immortal lines "Let Jesus f$%K you!", her head is spinning around, she's floating up off the bed, I mean just the fact that it was about exorcism and had all these religious themes in it- freaked ppl out massively, but then all the special effects- it was just plain too much for a lot of ppl to handle. Ppl were passing out, throwing up, having to be picked up by the ambulance at the theaters. If that same movie came out now- kids would laugh at it- they think it's silly. And most adults wouldn't even notice.
Keir Dullea's voice turns into HAL's at the end.
Thank you, Dave...
Film as art! My hero.
I remember seeing 2001 in the theater when it 1st was released I was 11 yo. I also remember seeing in the theater Beatles Hard Days Night in 1964, I was 8 yo. Wow time flies.
Imho, the best film ever made, by far. The combination of hard science and wonder is deeply powerful.
I saw 2001 as a 10 year old boy, when a student teacher took a group of us to the theatre, and it blew my mind. I'm sure it was a huge influence on my deep psyche throughout my life. As I look back now at the Prima-donna actors, the corrupt movie bosses and twisted narratives I find myself wondering how much Stanley really knew of the reality of our world, and the things he encoded into his works, particularly Eyes Wide Shut.
'2001: A Space Odyssey' is the greatest motion picture ever made, hands down
That was great. As others pointed out, the music was intrusive and some “burned” or ending film effect was unnecessary
No, every thing was and is near perfect !
Fantastic concept and editing! ❤
Actually, all of Kubrick's films were difficult to make. Yes, technically 2001 was monumentally difficult as Kubrick was pioneering techniques never used, but he didn't require top actors for the roles. They simply had to be competent. The demands he makes on actors in his later films recasts the concept of "difficult."
Excellent video! Thank you for that.
Why the grid on everything? Is there something wrong with your editing program? Or bad compression?
Another one of your delicious deep dives into the world of movies.
Thanks!
@10:22 Stanley Kubrick with an Apple Watch.
He really came from the future!
It’s a Heuer Monaco.