Stanley Kubrick

...the authorities that rings all too familiar. Lucas also had the benefit of Stanley Kubrick's visionary "2001 -- A Space Odyssey," which had affected an entire generation just two years before. And those chrome-issue cops seem to anticipate...

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...theater; it is used for presenting three-strip films such as How the West Was Won '' and 70 mm classics like Stanley Kubrick's ''2001: A Space Odyssey . For screenings of modern 70 mm/35 mm first-run movies, however, a second screen sits...

In this article: Seattle, Washington, Space Odyssey, How the West Was Won, Seattle International Film Festival, Krakatoa, East of Java, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, and Warner Brothers

...the latest tome from French Nobel prize-winner Jean Marie Gustave Le ClA©zio, and had just discovered two films of Stanley Kubrick: 2001 Space Odyssey and The Shining. Tut, tut, came the instant response from the Paris mayor's team: "It's...

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...a person can go into another world and have an experience. As an example, there's Stanley Kubrick's "2001:A Space Odyssey" - this would be kind of a pathetic joke on a little screen. How do you feel about someone watching your films -...

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...game in "2001-A Space Odyssey". It's said the creators of the film, Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick put in a chess playing computer as a joke because they thought no computer would ever play chess well. Well, chess is played pretty...

In this article: Iphone, Chess, Deep Blue, Tax, Space Odyssey, Itunes, Hal-9000, IPod, and Alan Turing

...footage. The closing of films with "The End" went out of style with the advent of long closing credits, but Kubrick continued to put it at the end of the credits, long after the rest of the film industry stopped using it. On the other...

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...Vault at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th. It's free. •"2001: A Space Odyssey" (July 11): Stanley Kubrick's epic follows man from his prehistoric origins to his destiny among the stars. •"Silent Running" (July 18): In this ecological fable,...

In this article: Steven Spielberg, Bruce Dern, Richard Dreyfuss, Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Silent Running

...but send the machete-wielding mass-murderer into space! Director Jason Isaacs is certainly no Stanley Kubrick, but the winks and nods to movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey are unmistakable. OK, maybe it's a little more Spaceballs than Space...

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...and more), but in A Space Odyssey he was doing it for the first time. So now he has a chance to completely demolish what people thought made those elements work. For example, HAL's vision in 2001 is shown to us through a fish-eye lens.

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