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Article: Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' set film standard
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- January 7, 2001
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LOS ANGELES - Way back in 1968, when Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A
Space Odyssey" first was released, critics blasted it as "somewhere
between hypnotic and immensely boring" (Renata Adler, The New York
Times) and "in some ways ... the biggest amateur movie of them all"
(Pauline Kael, Harper's).
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called it "a film out of control, an
infuriating combination of exactitude on small parts and incoherence
on large ones."
Now, at the turn of the year 2001, things look a little
different.
Kubrick's visionary tale about a manned flight to Jupiter -
edited from its original length - has become a cinematic classic and
launched a new genre of quality space films (even if we are still ...