When Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” made its premiere in Los Angeles in 1968, reactions were mixed. The director was in the audience, having traveled from his adopted home in England by ...
In 1968, film critic Roger Ebert saw the slowness of this sci-fi masterpiece not as a flaw but as its secret weapon.
July 26 would have been the 88th birthday of Stanley Kubrick, one of Hollywood’s all-time greats. His output was slim — only 13 films in a 40-year career — but his batting average was very high.
EXCLUSIVE: The impact of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey will be explored in an upcoming documentary that’s being made in partnership with the legendary filmmaker’s estate and the Stanley ...
It's the 50th birthday of a film that was supposed to be — and definitely is — "the proverbial 'really good' science fiction movie," and Michael Benson's exhaustive new book about the making of 2001: ...
A call yesterday from KCBS radio in San Francisco reminded me of what I was too distracted to notice: That today, April 2, is the 50th anniversary of a 1968 premiere screening in Washington, D.C., of ...
Director Stanley Kubrick couldn't stand astronomer Carl Sagan. To discuss the depiction of extraterrestrials in his upcoming film adaptation of an Arthur C. Clarke short story, Kubrick hosted a dinner ...
Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” had its world premiere April 2, 1968, at the Uptown Theater in Northwest Washington. People in the audience were “streaming out” before the film was over. The ...
Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey is headed to an IMAX screen for the first time. Variety reports that the late, great filmmaker's magnum opus is set for a limited run ...
Mike Kaplan, a former vice president of Stanley Kubrick's Polaris Productions, is an independent producer and marketing consultant. He lives in Santa Monica Rock Hudson may have walked out of the Los ...
On the hotel room set of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick is shown at center behind the camera. Warner Bros. Stanley Kubrick didn’t want to make a science-fiction film. His plan, as he told his eventual ...