Harbour Highlights: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.”

Welcome to Harbour Highlights, a monthly series of cult and classic films handpicked by the Harbour Light staff – and this month we’re emphasising the ‘classic’ part of that description as Henry takes us beyond the infinite with 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Considered by many to be Stanley Kubrick’s greatest work , the influence 2001 had on films and filmmaking cannot be overstated.

A story that stretches from the Dawn of Man to the next possible stage of human evolution, the film’s ambitions and stunning visuals have amazed for fifty-five years, with many of its elements – HAL, the monolith, the Blue Danube-scored space docking, the Star Gate sequence – becoming iconic and it’s themes of mankind’s relationship with technology and our place in the universe only growing more timely, despite the titular year having long passed.

Imitators, parodies and references have come and gone but 2001’s visionary style has lost none of its impact. .

Over half a century on, it remains one of the definitive big screen experiences – to quote Christopher Nolan, “2001 is pure cinema”.

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