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Artist Tom Sachs takes his SPACE PROGRAM to the next level with a four week mission to Mars that recasts the 55,000 square foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall as an immersive space odyssey with an installation of dynamic and meticulously crafted sculptures.

Filled with detail and technical minutiae, this novel is a sci - fi space odyssey with a giant, mesmerizing scope.

It's a dark, gory space odyssey with intelligent androids and dimwitted humans.

Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Arthur C. Clarke, has infused 2001: A Space Odyssey with a continuously striking visual sensibility that remains a highlight from start to finish, as the filmmaker suffuses the proceedings with one absolutely astonishing set - piece after another - with, for example, Dave's gravity - defying jog within the spacecraft's interior nothing less than jaw - dropping in its impact.

Named in honor of film director Stanley Kubrick, who co-wrote the screenplay for the film 2001: a Space Odyssey with Sir Arthur and directed the film version.

Not exact matches

Keir Dullea, actor, talks about the 50th anniversary of the classic movie, «2001, A Space Odyssey,» and his fictional early interaction with artificial intelligence.

That is completely possible in 10 - 20 years, but not with outdated software and commercial interests not wanting to invest their funds into a HAL 9000 out of 2001 Space Odyssey.

The theme of Mad Men Episode Four («The Monolith»), with its brazen referentiality to 2001: A Space Odyssey, was «Progress: Its Nature and Consequences.»

The scarps directly expose bright glimpses into vast underground ice previously detected with spectrometers on NASA's Mars Odyssey (MRO) orbiter, with ground - penetrating radar instruments on MRO and on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, and with observations of fresh impact craters that uncover subsurface ice.

«Handling all the data coming from Mars is becoming a challenge for us,» says Barry Geldzahler, the program executive for space operations in NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington, D.C. «The Mars Odyssey is sending back unprecedented amounts of data, and with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we'll have another order of magnitude more.&rspace operations in NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington, D.C. «The Mars Odyssey is sending back unprecedented amounts of data, and with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we'll have another order of magnitude more.&rSpace Science in Washington, D.C. «The Mars Odyssey is sending back unprecedented amounts of data, and with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we'll have another order of magnitude more.»

This was the basis of Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which may be the most scientifically accurate depiction of an encounter with an extraterrestrial intelligence.

Back when he was a high school guitar player obsessed with software, Allen was mesmerized by movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World.

It could allow us to program computers with human capabilities, helping them become more clever than HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey and C - 3PO in Star Wars.

Curiosity can either communicate directly with Earth's Deep Space Network (DSN) antenna via an X band (8 GHz) link, or it can use a UHF (300MHz - 3 GHz) transmitter to relay signals through Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which orbit a few hundred miles above Curiosity.

This animation shows how NASA's Curiosity rover communicates with Earth via two of NASA's Mars orbiters, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Odyssey, and the European Space Agency's Mars Express.

In the early 1980s he wrote a sequel to «2001: A Space Odyssey» called «2010: Odyssey Two», with life under the ice of Europa central to the plot.

With such titles as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes, the 1960s proved to be a particularly rich decade for science fiction cinema, and Fantastic Voyage stands as one of the period's most imaginative efforts.

Kubrick at first opened the film with some of today's leading scientists explaining, as clearly as they could, what this «space odyssey» was all about, but Kubrick cut that 10 - minute dialogue preferring for the film to remain more mysterious.

A haunting and genuinely frightening, sci - fi mystery that's as elliptical and unnerving as Tarkovsky's Stalker and as trippy as Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - with a plethora of other science fiction influences thrown in for good measure.

Bonus: DVD One: • Audio Commentary with Actors Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood • Trailer DVD Two: • «2001: The Making of a Myth» Documentary • «Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001» Featurette • «Visions of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001» Featurette • «2001: A Space Odyssey - A Look Behind the Future» Featurette • «What Is Out There?»

Ultimately, Garland cops out and what started as a fascinating science fiction like Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, pregnant with possibilities, plays out as FRIDAY THE 13th meets PREDATOR, where Dutch is a Final Girl with a Ph.D. and Jason Voorhees is a blooming fungus.

2001: A Space Odyssey is one of cinema's most eternally beguiling films, with a seemingly endless amount of theories bandied about on what it all means.

It's not The Matrix or 2001: A Space Odyssey, but with a more well - thought out concept behind it, it looks like it could be.

To create these sequences, Malick collaborated with the great visual effects artist Douglas Trumbull, who made his name with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and went on to Oscar nominations for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and Blade Runner (1982).

When I first watched 2001: A Space Odyssey at age twelve, I was awed by the visual spectacle that the film presents us with.

Along with 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien, Blade Runner is among the most influential science - fiction films of the late 20th century.

series launched at the Los Angeles Theatre on June 14, 2014 with Stephany Folsom's «1969: A Space Odyssey.»

Visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull (notable for his work on 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner and Close Encounters of the Third Kind), made his directorial debut with this eco-themed sci - fi classic

The best comic - book movie in a long time, though based on no comic, Lucy is a film that mates classic Besson with Quentin Tarantino in a go at the mystical, world - solving vision found in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.

This second goal is used as a springboard to leap into some half - baked armchair philosophizing and allusions to 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Tree of Life, but with a lot more guns.

But while the movie starts off that way, it eventually devolves into a metaphysical mess that's equal parts «Tree of Life,» «Limitless» and «Transcendence,» with a not - so - subtle nod to «2001: A Space Odyssey.»

Seriously though, perhaps Clooney was miscast as the depressive lead, maybe some scenes consciously mimicked 2001: A Space Odyssey too much, but something is amiss and one never connects emotionally with the film.

The movie draws inspiration from likeminded films such as «2001: A Space Odyssey,» but at its core, it's basically a modern day retelling of Mary Shelley's «Frankenstein» with a twist, with Nathan as the creator and Vikander as his monster.

Villeneuve sat down with me for an in - depth conversation in my new video series Behind the Lens, and we covered the waterfront with topics ranging from his lifelong interest in science fiction movies, why Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey may be the greatest ever, how he came to an agreement with Ridley Scott during the filming of Blade Runner 2049, the beauty of Roger Deakins, and the darkness that permeates many of the films he directs.

The first film directed by Douglas Trumbull (Brainstorm), the special effects maestro that created memorable visions in such movies as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Blade Runner, features quite a bit of interesting effects of its own, perhaps a bit dated by today's standards (the spaceships look like obvious miniatures) but given the limited budget and schedule Trumbull had to work with, still impressive.

Solaris is primarily recommended for those who love science fiction in its purest of forms, like 2001: A Space Odyssey or Blade Runner, and especially for those who are familiar with the novel and previous film but are curious to see another take on the subject.

Making a movie about A.I. isn't exactly a novel premise, but Garland excels at putting a fresh spin on familiar material, and he doesn't disappoint with «Ex Machina,» which draws inspiration from other genre classics like «2001: A Space Odyssey» and «Frankenstein.»

The format for this otherwise rote docu is interesting as Gordon appears as a talking head superimposed over archival footage, recalling his early days in the movies before 2001: A Space Odyssey and his involvement as artistic director with the Organic Theater Company in Madison, WI (later, Chicago), at the spearhead of David Mamet's board - pounding revolution.

Touted as a thriller by way of Stanley Kubrick's «2001: A Space Odyssey,» Cuarón had a bitch of a time financing this 3D - shot, effects - driven film until he finally landed with the A-list cast of Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.

Hollywood's exploration of man's relationship with computers, from HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Terminator, has mostly revolved around their destruction of us.

Its characters are often detached and remote in a 2001: A Space Odyssey sort of way, which would be fine if they weren't humanized with complex back stories.

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The result is a metaphysical journey — filmed with touches echoing both Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey — that brings Toller simultaneously to the edge of enlightenment and the mouth of madness.

Note: this is a continuation from yesterday's post: How Stanley Kubrick broke the rules of Classical Hollywood cinema and made a better film with» 2001: A Space Odyssey»: My MA thesis redux — part 2 of 4

Meanwhile, the presence of a calm, emotive ship computer voice as well as the filming of outer space scenery and efforts all hark back to 2001: A Space Odyssey, only with shorter shots and more attention to space scenery and efforts all hark back to 2001: A Space Odyssey, only with shorter shots and more attention to Space Odyssey, only with shorter shots and more attention to plot.

You can also add 2001: A Space Odyssey to the list of influences, with the crew squabbles with the onboard AI, as well as the more surreal elements that come into play late in the film.

Man, I hate saying things like that, because it sounds so pseudo-intellectual and pretentious, but in the case of Blade Runner - as with 2001: A Space Odyssey and a few other seminal flicks - it's the truth.

Set aboard a spaceship with interiors resembling the Discovery One from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the film features Captain Glenn (Patrick Wilson), whose mustache, chain - smoking, and predilection for drinking while on the job places him within the film's attempted anachronistic paradox, where «a galaxy far, far away» is actually the dregs of a 1970s social zeitgeist past.

Terence Stamp is given a brief opportunity to philosophize about the limitations of science, Val Kilmer is convincing as a competent space jockey with a mechanical and scientific background, and Carrie Anne - Moss, whose character Bowman is a nod to Dave Bowman from «2001: A Space Odyssey,» is convincing as a no - nonsense pspace jockey with a mechanical and scientific background, and Carrie Anne - Moss, whose character Bowman is a nod to Dave Bowman from «2001: A Space Odyssey,» is convincing as a no - nonsense pSpace Odyssey,» is convincing as a no - nonsense pilot.

When it's all said and done, this really is nothing more than a rehash of what we've seen repeated countless times since Ridley Scott's epic classic Alien, with just enough broad strokes of Stanley Kubrick's twisted masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey to let you know the filmmakers have done their homework.