(Stanley Kubrick, US/UK 1968, 149 min., 35mm)
The George Eastman Museum is proud to show a brand-new 35mm print (roadshow version) of Kubrick’s visionary sci-fi masterwork, complete with the music meant to be heard before the film’s beginning and during the intermission. The themes of artificial intelligence and of human exploration of our solar system, now part of our everyday experience, are treated with prophetic insight through a solemn, spellbinding immersion in the silence of the cosmos: widescreen, the Blue Danube waltz, and pristine imagery from the film’s preservation negative are in full display for the kind of cinematic event that fully expresses the motion picture as an art form. Deemed “the ultimate science fiction movie” by George Lucas, the film has had an incalculable influence on filmmaking. Even now, at a time when the sci-fi blockbuster has become commonplace, the film continues to resonate with audiences and contains some of the most enduring images, characters, and dialogue in all of cinema.