Re: "2001's" place in film history

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In Reply to: IMDB trivia for "2001" (extremely long) posted by rico on August 31, 2005 at 12:03:50:

It never fails to amaze me that so many film devotees just do not "get it" when it comes to 2001. It was, at once, a quintessential 60's film and a monument for the ages. It's thematic scope is sweeping and profound. It asks, more eloquently than any film ever made, "What are we?", "Where did we come from?", and "Where are we going?", and peers into the darkest depths of the space and the farthest reaches of time like a searchlight looking for a clue to the mustery of consciousness and existence. It is also on of the most consumate executions of the craft of film-making in history. It is a masterpiece, and my nomineee for the greatest film ever made. I can think of no other film in which all the elements of the cinematic art were so skillfully and ambitiusly marshalled.
I was deeply saddened by Stanley the Great's passing. AI, a film which tantalizingly seemed to offer us the opportunity to see Kubrick's mastery and imagination applied again to the keys and pedals of that great pipe organ of science fiction, unfortunately unded up in the hands of a much less capable director.
Thanks for the delectible details and trivia.

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Topic - IMDB trivia for "2001" (extremely long) - rico 12:03:50 08/31/05 (3)

Re: "2001's" place in film history - halfnote 20:35:25 09/04/05 (2)

Re: "2001's" place in film history - rico 08:52:36 09/08/05 (1)

Re: Your other selections - halfnote 21:34:10 09/08/05 (0)

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