Notes by Frederick Ordway, Scientific/Technical Consultant on '2001'

[AdamSmith]

Just came across this, one of the best critical essays on 2001 I've ever read.

The Infinite Set

http://reverseshot.org/symposiums/entry/2013/space_odyssey

[AdamSmith]

Interview with Tom Cruise on the experience of working with Kubrick, on 'Eyes Wide Shut':

What is astounding is the (unintentional) self-revelation by Cruise throughout this, of how very intelligent and psychologically astute he (I mean Cruise) genuinely is.

Not just some grotesque display of his repressed real sexual orientation etc etc. Which he has gone to the nuclear option of joining Scientology to try to extinguish.

But also how he clearly does know that, uses it (not necessarily in a way my smarty-ass psychoanalyzed point of view would be supposed to be able to articulate), but to real effect to bring many characters, effectively, to life on screen.

[AdamSmith]

And SEE! Nicole Kidman says of Kubrick exactly the same words that one Dororthy Robbins (Google her up, you ruffians  :

 

[AdamSmith]

'2001' re-release trailer 2014...