Stanley Kubrick’s dazzling, Academy Award®-winning achievement that is 2001: A Space Odyssey is a compelling drama of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality.
The film is indeed a classic and it set the tone for sci-fi films and filmmaking the moment it was released. And now for the first time since the original release, this 70mm print was struck from new printing elements made from the original camera negative.
“This is a true photochemical film recreation,” explains director Christopher Nolan, who is backing this re-release. “There are no digital tricks, remastered effects, or revisionist edits. This is the unrestored film – that recreates the cinematic event that audiences experienced fifty years ago.”
Although it has been half a century since the film was released there is no denying that 2001: A Space Odyssey still holds up till this very day. The film is set to premiere at Cannes on May 12, which will be followed by limited rollouts in selected markets across the globe.
So, “open the pod bay doors, HAL.” Let an awesome journey unlike any other begin.”