Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.
This time, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
At the dawn of man, a strange observer appears to witness the instant at which mankind comes into existence. Millennia later, the object appears again, beckoning mankind out towards Jupiter, beyond the infinite.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 90th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 20th May 2017.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Jeremy Bernstein’s profile of Stanley Kubrick at The New Yorker, November 1966.
- Stanley Kubrick’s interview with Playboy, September 1968.
- Stuart Klawans at The New York Times on 2001 as a window into 1968, November 2011.
- Will Noble’s guide to “Stanley Kubrick’s London” at The Londonist, October 2015.
- Russell Platt at The New Yorker on the relationship between Stanley Kubrick and György Ligeti, August 2008.
- Bruce Sterling at The Smithsonian on the contents of Arthur C. Clarke’s archives, May 2015.
- Keith Phipps discusses the 2001 as the root of a golden age of big screen science-fiction at The Dissolve, July 2013.
- Noel Murray on Jack Kirby’s comic book adaptation of 2001 at The Dissolve, January 2014.
- Roger Ebert ponders whether movie-goers who enjoy Transformers films are “sufficiently evolved”, July 2009.
- Andrew Pullver ponders whether Christopher Nolan is the new Stanley Kubrick at The Guardian, July 2010.
- Vivian Kubrick denounces the “Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landing” conspiracy theory at Variety, July 2016.
- Conspiracy theory suggesting that Stanley Kubrick was killed for exposing the Illuminati in Eyes Wide Shut, January 2013.
- Sylvester Stallone explains how to use the three seashells to Ain’t It Cool News, December 2003.
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