Really Brilliant Reviews (-contemporarily) of
the movie '2001 A Space Odyssey'
"...whimsical space opera... ...just obscure enough to be annoying..."
[from Newsweek, April 15 1968.]
"...hideously funny..."
[from New Yorker, April 13, 1968.]
"...will arouse controversy, but leaves doubt that the film makers
themselves knew precisely what they were flying at."
[from Time, April 19, 1968.]*
[Be it noted: Michael Sargow, in Film Society Review, seems to
have understood it all well enough... but he wrote two years later, in
January of 1970.]
*(True, this quote is about the film's ending...
but the accusation of unconsciousness against Kubrick & Clarke is, well... inappropriate.)
- page created July 6, 1999, from draft of ~October 1998, by
R.H., Webmaster, 'UpSky' sites.