Many of the 13 feature films Kubrick directed were ahead of their time, but none were quite so far ahead as 2001, a wildly ambitious adventure that posited that a benign extraterrestrial intelligence had guided the evolution of the human animal over some four million years-and would eventually lead us to outgrow even our corporeal bodies. 2 and 3 earners of 1968, respectively) is to understate its artistic achievement. But simply to point out that it took in more money than Funny Girl or The Love Bug (the No. Just wait.”ĭespite initially damning reviews, 2001 became the year’s highest-grossing movie. Lockwood, annoyed at the man’s inability to appreciate what he’d seen, replied. “No one liked it.” Later that night, an executive with MGM Studios, the company that had bankrolled the ballooning production with growing alarm, asked Lockwood what had gone so wrong. “It was a disaster,” he recalls in Michael Benson’s new book Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Gary Lockwood, the actor who played doomed astronaut Frank Poole in the film, remembers attendees heckling the slow-paced movie and “streaming out” of the theater at intermission. Four years in the making, the film had been shown for members of the press three days earlier at Washington DC’s Uptown Theatre, a 1,120-seat single-screen cinema opened in 1936 that remains in operation today. Fifty years ago today, Stanley Kubrick’s landmark science fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey was released.
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