2001, a space odyssey
- Publication/Creation:
- Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]
- Resource Type:
- Video or Visual Material
More Details
Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- 2001, a space odyssey / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Stanley Kubrick production ; Polaris ; produced by Stanley Kubrick ; screenplay by Arthur C. Clarke & Stanley Kubrick ; directed by Stanley Kubrick
- Uniform Title:
- 2001, a space odyssey (Motion picture)
- Related/Included Titles:
- Sentinel.
- Variant Titles:
- Two thousand and one: space odyssey
Related Names
- Additional Author/Creators:
- Kubrick, Stanley
Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008
Dullea, Keir, 1936-
Lockwood, Gary, 1937-
Sylvester, William, 1922-1995
Richter, Dan
Rossiter, Leonard, 1926-1984
Tyzack, Margaret, 1931-2011
Beatty, Robert, 1909-1992
Sullivan, Sean, 1921-1985
Rain, Douglas
Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008. Sentinel
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Polaris (Firm)
Stanley Kubrick Productions (Firm)
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Subjects/Genre
- Genre:
- Feature films
Science fiction films
Action and adventure films
Fantasy films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Subjects:
- Clarke, Arthur C.(Arthur Charles),1917-2008--Film adaptations
HAL (Fictitious character)--Drama
Antiquities, Prehistoric--Drama
Astronauts--Drama
Interplanetary voyages--Drama
Computer system failures--Drama
Description/Summary
- Summary:
- At the Dawn of Man, a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith that is alien to their surroundings. A hominid discovers the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. The bone is tossed in the air and it's a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development only to imply that man hasn't advanced very far at all psychologically. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to the moon to check out the discovery of a strange object on the moon's surface: a black monolith. As the sun's rays strike the stone, however, it emits a piercing, deafening sound that fills the investigators' headphones and stops them in their path. Cutting ahead 18 months, impassive astronauts David Bowman and Frank Poole head toward Jupiter on the space ship Discovery, their only company three hibernating astronauts and the vocal, man-made HAL 9000 computer running the entire ship. When the all-too-human HAL malfunctions, however, he tries to murder the astronauts to cover his error, forcing Bowman to defend himself the only way he can. Free of HAL, and finally informed of the voyage's purpose by a recording from Floyd, Bowman journeys to "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite," through the psychedelic slit-scan star-gate to an 18th century room, and the completion of the monolith's evolutionary mission.
- Language:
- English
French
German
Italian
Spanish - Language Note:
- English, French, German, Italian and Spanish language soundtracks with optional subtitles in English, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish or Spanish subtitles; English, German and Italian;captioned in English for the hearin impaired; closed-captioned in English.
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 videodisc (149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Technical Note:
- Blu-ray disc; 1080p high definition, aspect ratio 2.2:1 ; PCM Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Special features: 480i/480p standard definition; stereo and mono. - General Note:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968.
Based on the novel "The sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke.
Special features: commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood ; "2001: the making of a myth" documentary ; 4 featurettes "Standing on the shoulders of Kubrick: the legacy of 2001," "Vision of a future passed: the prophecy of 2001," 2001: A Space Odysseyv- a look behind the future," and "What is out there?" ; 2001: FX and Early Conceptual artwork ; Look: Stanley Kubrick! ; audio-only 1966 inverview with Stanley Kubrick conducted by Jeremy Bernstein ; theatrical trailer. - Participant/Performer Note:
- Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan.
HAL 9000 voice: Douglas Rain. - Creation/Production Credits Note:
- Director of photography, Geoffrey Unsworth ; editor, Ray Lovejoy ; production designer, Ernest Archer, Harry Lange, Tony Masters.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990021945160302486
- ISBN:
- 1419853082
9781419853081 - OCLC Number:
- 164620156
- Other Identifiers:
- Universal Product Code: 012569798380
- Publisher Number:
- 79838 Warner Home Video
- Barcode:
- 10002372907
Tools
- Cite
- Export as RIS
-
Direct Link
Direct Link
Direct Link URL
- Staff View