forty years of wonder and awe...
yup, its been that long since kubrick's 2001: a space odyssey first filled the cinerama screen at its world premiere at the Uptown theatre in Washington DC and about thirty six years since a naïve fourteen year old me saw it and was railroaded into the first major fork on my life journey.
i still savour every hypnotic second of this movie, again and again. the recent death of arthur c clarke (who unfortunately just couldn't resist spelling things out, and was responsible for that awfully ill conceived '2010') brought the movie back into our media consciousness, but it's the pending arrival of a blu-ray copy of the film (and, along with other blu-ray kubrick movies of course, the motivation for buying my first blu-ray player) that has me filled with an-tici-pation and i will celebrate this anniversary by gazing again in wonder and awe at those iconic images that first warped my fragile little mind.
wow! cheers once again, stanley...
mre
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i still savour every hypnotic second of this movie, again and again. the recent death of arthur c clarke (who unfortunately just couldn't resist spelling things out, and was responsible for that awfully ill conceived '2010') brought the movie back into our media consciousness, but it's the pending arrival of a blu-ray copy of the film (and, along with other blu-ray kubrick movies of course, the motivation for buying my first blu-ray player) that has me filled with an-tici-pation and i will celebrate this anniversary by gazing again in wonder and awe at those iconic images that first warped my fragile little mind.
wow! cheers once again, stanley...mre
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