2001: A Filmmaking Odyssey

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

2001: A Space Odyssey is considered a masterpiece, and a game changer for sci-fi on film. But the movie had a tumultuous origin story, and it was initially scorned by critics. Barbara Miller of The Museum of The Moving Image walks me through their new exhibit on the making of 2001. And I talk with author Michael Benson, actor Keir Dullea and Stanley Kubrick’s daughter Katharina about how Kubrick and his collaborator Arthur C. Clarke reached for the stars, but felt lost in space as they struggled to finish this incredibly ambitious project. Here’s the link to Michael Benson’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Space-Odyssey-Stanley-Kubrick-Masterpiece/dp/1501163930 Here’s a link the Museum of the Moving Image’s 2001 exhibit: http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2020/01/18/detail/envisioning-2001-stanley-kubricks-space-odyssey/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend
0:04.5	our disbelief.
0:05.5	I'm Eric Mollinsky.
0:07.6	So why don't you tell us where we are right now?
0:09.7	We are in the entrance to Envisioning 2001 Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey, an exhibition
0:16.9	at Museum of the Moving Image.
0:18.4	I'm Barbara Miller.
0:19.4	I'm the director of Curatorial Affairs here at the Museum.
0:24.4	The Museum of the Moving Image is one of my favorite museums in New York because they
0:28.5	focus on television and movies.
0:31.4	They have props and costumes from Blade Runner, Star Wars, and The Muppets.
0:37.0	So when I found out they were doing an exhibit on 2001 a Space Odyssey, I had to check it
0:42.8	out.
0:43.8	Now, I had always assumed that 2001 the movie was based on the novel 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke,
0:51.7	but I learned that the novel and the film were actually created at the same time.
0:56.0	They were both based on a treatment that Arthur C. Clarke and the director Stanley Kubrick
1:00.7	wrote together in 1964.
1:03.3	In fact, one of the first objects that you see is not a prop from the film.
1:08.9	It is a small telescope that Kubrick and Clarke first bonded over.
1:15.0	So this is a quest to our telescope that Kubrick saw.
1:18.6	He was really avidly into looking up at the night sky.
1:23.5	And actually this letter here from Stanley Kubrick to Arthur C. Clarke is the first time
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