2001: A Space Odyssey
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Stanley Kubrick Run Time: 149 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1968
Starring: Daniel Richter, Douglas Rain, Gary Lockwood, Keir Dullea, William Sylvester
A Kubrick Christmas kicks off with 2001: A Space Odyssey, the director’s 1969 science fiction trip!
Opening in prehistoric times, the film jumps from early man’s discovery of a strange monolith and subsequent development of weaponry to hundreds of thousands of years into the future when humanity has mastered space travel. As the rest of their crew rests in hibernation, scientists Dave and Frank lead a mission to Jupiter to retrieve a mysterious ancient artifact, accompanied by sentient computer system HAL 9000. When HAL’s intellect and ego are challenged, the journey takes an ominous turn as the craft races closer to its cryptic destination.
A film of staggering visuals that are as glorious as they are often ambiguous, 2001: A Space Odyssey took home the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, as well as nominations for Best Director, Original Screenplay and Art Direction.
Please note: The 7:15 screening on Wednesday, December 4th will be preceded by a short film called Vida. Vida is described as a science fiction short which follows a servant robot that must overcome its feelings of imperfection and adapt to free will after being bestowed consciousness by its loving creators. It is a project 2 years in the making, and the senior thesis for several of its Key Crew including Matias Montemayor (producer), Louis Schwartz (Director), Ed Ko (Cinematographer) and Ryan Lew (Sound Designer). It was brought to screen with a crew of 40+ students over six filming days, and made with the support of Chapman’s Dodge College of Film & Media Arts