2001: A Space Odyssey

[AndySlash]

just didn't feel right to talk about this news in any other movie threads i could find, so here's a dedicated thread for this classic.

it was just announced that 2001 is getting a 70mm IMAX release later this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR_e9y-bka0

2001spaceodysseymovie.com

"For the first time since the original release, this 70mm print was struck from new printing elements made from the original camera negative. This is a true photochemical film recreation. There are no digital tricks, remastered effects, or revisionist edits. This is the unrestored film - that recreates the cinematic event that audiences experienced fifty years ago." - Christopher Nolan

Stanley Kubrick’s dazzling, Academy Award®-winning* achievement is a compelling drama of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality. “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” Let an awesome journey unlike any other begin.

this is going to be awesome to see. it just is.

[Arby]

I saw it about a year ago at a 70mm film fest type thing. It was not restored film, so it looked....authentic to the time Still great, obviously. And i'll definitely be seeing it again with this IMAX release