8/28/2023 0 Comments Shadow of a Doubt, Young Charlie realizes that Uncle Charlie is a killer from what source?![]() Much criticism has noted the shifting nature of "thinking" computer HAL-9000, the "star" of the movie's longest section, who can seem evil, pathetic, or divine depending on one's orientation to the film less often discussed is the poker-faced second movement, largely set in the ultra-professional meeting rooms of an orbiting space station. As in most of Kubrick's films, the pervasive ambiguity-the product of every detail having been realized so thoroughly as to seem independent of an author-ensures a different experience from viewing to viewing. It isn't hyperbolic to assert, as film scholar Michel Chion has in his book Kubrick's Cinema Odyssey, that this could be the most expensive experimental film ever made it's certainly the most abstracted of all big-budget productions. Kubrick achieves this (literally) awesome effect through a number of staggering devices: a narrative structure that begins at "the dawn of man" and ends with the final evolution of humankind one-of-a-kind special effects, the result of years of scientific research, that forever changed visual representations of outer space a singular irony that renders the most familiar human interaction beguiling blasts of symphonic music that heighten the project of sensory overload. In no other film is the experience of seeing images larger than oneself linked so directly to contemplating humanity's place in the universe. Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK/US)įor many, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is not simply a masterpiece, but the apotheosis of moviegoing itself. Reviews of select films are listed below other films screening this week are Gene Kelly’s 1969 musical HELLO, DOLLY! (146 min, 70mm), just once on Saturday at 7pm George Seaton’s 1970 disaster spectacle AIRPORT (137 min, 70mm) on Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30pm and Douglas Trumbull’s 1983 sci-fi film BRAINSTORM (106 min, 70mm), preceded by a newly restored 70mm print of HERE’S CHICAGO! CITY OF DREAMS (see below for review), on Thursday at 7pm. The Music Box Theatre’s seventh 70mm Film Festival starts Friday and goes through Thursday, June 30. We recommend verifying those before every trip to the theater. Remember to check venue websites for information on safety protocols and other procedures put in place for COVID prevention.
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