Overview
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Summer Classics
In the wake of Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick co-wrote a science fiction space epic alongside the author of the short story that inspired it, Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Released at the height of the Space Race, the film and, in particular, its visual effects garnered immediate popular and critical praise, which never waned. After the sun rises to the timpani of Also Sprach Zarathustra, a black monolith appears before a chattering tribe of ape-men and, through unspoken means, delivers them uppercase-T Technology. Millions of years later, the monolith is (re-)discovered by humans and soon a fleet of astronauts find themselves in conflict with their ship’s computer, HAL.
Free for Notre Dame Students.
Sponsored by the Meg and John P. Brogan Endowment for Classic Cinema. Co-presented by La Casa de Amistad.