Presented by ACMI and the Harvard Film Archive
2001: A Space Odyssey
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Sat 10 Jan - Sun 25 Jan 2026
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Re-released by MGM executives with the tagline “The Ultimate Trip”, 2001: A Space Odyssey remains one of the most psychedelic films in existence.
Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction epic remains a defining film of the 60s and one of the purest expressions of his vision of Man controlled by fateful patterns that he cannot perceive but the viewer is allowed to fathom.
The equal power of 2001: A Space Odyssey to awe and to confuse its audience frightened MGM executives, who worried that the film would not recoup its tremendous costs. Realising its psychedelic potential as a trance-inducing head film, the studio boldly re-released 2001 two years after its first tepid reception, now with the savvy tagline, “The Ultimate Trip.” Youth audiences flocked to the cinema to “drop into” Kubrick’s film and travel together through the Stargate.
– Harvard Film Archive
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