Baradwaj Rangan on 2001: A Space Odyssey
2008-04-19 20:08:00 Between Reviews: Forget what it means? Just see what it is Read Original story
Scifi Author Arthur C. Clarke Dies
2008-03-20 04:31:00 Arthur C. Clarke, the influential science fiction author best known for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, died Wednesday in Sri Lanka. He was 90.
By: Geeks of Doom
Arthur C. Clarke the legend died aged 90 March 18th 2008
2008-03-19 08:26:00 We are so upset of this news that the legend and inventor of satellite and one of the best visionaries in technology died yesterday (Wednesday March 18th 2008). Sir Arthur C Clarke died in his adopted home of Sri Lanka. Arthur C. Clarke is very well known for his books such as “2001: A Space Odyssey” ...
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Arthur C Clarke Dies
2008-03-19 07:14:00 British-born science fiction guru Arthur C Clarke, the author of more than 100 books, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died. Clarke died at a hospital in Sri Lanka on Wednesday after a brief illness, his aide Rohan de Silva told AFP. He was 90. President Mahinda Rajapakse mourned the death of Clarke and paid ...
By: ZA Vibes
Sunshine Film Ignites the Sun
2007-10-23 06:35:00 Danny Boyle's Sunshine is a surprisingly effective appeal to identify with suicide bombers. But in his film Boyle has engineered a narrative that frames secular science as the True Belief that drives the faithful. Sunshine tells the story of a future earth that circles a slowly dying star, and a concomitant mission to save the world by dropping a bomb into the center of the sun, reigniting its dimming burn. It is easy, watching Sunshine, to begin to imagine sacrificing one's own life for such a cause. The anxiety around sun worship is profoundly old. It haunts the very earliest moments of monotheism (see Philip Glass's Akhnaten). The Abrahamic tradition grew up in the shadows of an ice age. These are stories from mankind's childhood, when the approach of the winter solstice must have accompanied a grim anxiety - that the sun would not return. Sun worship is the ur heresy - the original distraction. The old testament made Sol a creature like ourselves: "Sun and moon fall down b...
Sunshine Film Ignites the Sun
2007-10-23 06:35:00 Danny Boyle's Sunshine is a surprisingly effective appeal to identify with suicide bombers. But in his film Boyle has engineered a narrative that frames secular science as the True Belief that drives the faithful. Sunshine tells the story of a future earth that circles a slowly dying star, and a concomitant mission to save the world by dropping a bomb into the center of the sun, reigniting its dimming burn. It is easy, watching Sunshine, to begin to imagine sacrificing one's own life for such a cause. The anxiety around sun worship is profoundly old. It haunts the very earliest moments of monotheism (see Philip Glass's Akhnaten). The Abrahamic tradition grew up in the shadows of an ice age. These are stories from mankind's childhood, when the approach of the winter solstice must have accompanied a grim anxiety - that the sun would not return. Sun worship is the ur heresy - the original distraction. The old testament made Sol a creature like ourselves: "Sun and moon fall down b...
2001: A Space Odyssey
2007-08-10 17:36:00 At the time it came out Time Magazine called it: 'some of the most dazzling visual happenings and technical achievements in the history of the motion picture', and after all these years those words still account for the brilliance that is 2001: A Space Odyssey. Starting off with a black screen, with only the music indicating the movie has already begun, it is an example of the major role music and sound have in this extraordinary film. Told in four chapters, director Stanley Kubrick starts off with 'The Dawn Of Man', showing a group of primeval apes living on planet earth as it once was, years and years ago. With a dynamic cut, we then find ourself in space, floating around in the big black unknown. With still no dialogue, it is the music and the visuals that speak and tell the story. Looking at these images you can't help but be fascinated of how real everything looks, especially when you consider 2001 was made in 1968, a time in which the 21th century still looked as somethi...
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Kubrick Week Day 4: 2001 a Space Odyssey
2007-06-21 06:47:00 Directed by: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood 2001 a Space Odyssey is one of Stanley Kubrick’s most famous and acclaimed films. Kubrick won his only Academy Award for the special effects, which were revolutionary and groundbreaking for their time, and still stand up perfectly today. The film is truly epic - beginning with our prehistoric ancestors and vaulting into our future of a colonized space and the unknown reaches of our solar system. The human performances are subtle and understated, and the standout character is certainly the HAL 9000 - a monotone speaking artificial intelligence that controls the spaceship and appears to have a sinister agenda of it’s own. Like all of Kubrick’s films, 2001 features fantastic visuals. The pace of the film is slow and ponderous and nearly hypnotic - but never boring. Kubrick and co-screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke do a great job of creating an intelligent and compelling story that does not pander to the a... |
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