
He has had the cooperation of Kubrick’s widow, Christiane, and interviewed most of the key people still alive who worked on the film. In Space Odyssey, author, artist, and award-winning filmmaker Michael Benson “delivers expert inside stuff” ( San Francisco Chronicle) from his extensive research of Kubrick’s and Clarke’s archives. Drawing from Clarke’s ideas and with one of the author’s short stories as the initial inspiration, their bold vision benefited from pioneering special effects that still look extraordinary today, even in an age of computer-generated images. Strangelove, Kubrick wanted to make the first truly first-rate science fiction film. Fresh off the success of his cold war satire Dr. The movie was the product of a singular collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and science fiction visionary Arthur C. Still acclaimed as one of the most remarkable and important motion pictures ever made, 2001: A Space Odyssey depicted the first contacts between humanity and extraterrestrial intelligence. Clarke- “a tremendous explication of a tremendous film….Breathtaking” ( The Washington Post).įifty years ago a strikingly original film had its premiere. The definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, and of director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C.
