2 - just below Yasujiro Ozu’s “Tokyo Story” (which suggests how antagonistic agendas were in play).

6, while film directors pushed it up to No. In Sight & Sound’s 2012 poll to find the best film ever, critics rated “2001” at No. He and Simon & Schuster have published a rich, readable 50th anniversary book, “Space Odyssey,” and he blasts off with nothing less than the declaration that, “The twentieth century produced two great latter-day iterations of Homer’s Odyssey.” One was James Joyce’s “Ulysses” (published as a book in 1922), and the other was Kubrick’s space fantasia. Michael Benson has written a lot about space travel in the past, and he admits to recent anticlimax in that area, but he’s not deterred. We are staying home - for the duration, mere tourists in CGI. If we can’t care for our home environment, why scheme over dream locations where a Matt Damon can grow protein from his waste products? Of course, “The Martian” was shot in Hungary and Jordan, not out there. But truly NASA is one of those programs our leaders have squeezed dry. Just the other day, Donald Trump enthused over space as a venue for war - and not just games. In the decades since then, Ronald Reagan (always a movie believer) would enthrall himself with dreams of star wars fireworks as part of our defense strategy.

We were still embryonic - or was it moronic? Then the guys came home, refusing to admit disappointment. It could seem like a new human genre opening up. Clarke, told the other, Stanley Kubrick, “This is the last big space film that won’t be made on location.” There was reason for that giddy exhilaration: 15 months after the April 1968 opening of the movie, Apollo 11 made its trip to the moon. 1 of2 'Space Odyssey' Simon & Schuster Show More Show Less 2 of2 Michael Benson Lucie Goodayle, NHM Images Show More Show LessĪs “2001” the movie was nearing completion, one of its creators, writer Arthur C.

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