"Kubrick was really big on silence, and that's how space is - quiet and eerie. When something explodes in space, it's silent. ('2001') pushed the depiction of how people saw space travel. It was around the time of the moon landings, so it was all very real. While 'Star Wars' was fantastic and made for a very exciting film, '2001' was a very, very real film, and I think that made it such a success."
--Marc Cooper, senior technical director in computer graphics at Industrial Light and Magic
I've just picked up a fault in the AE-35 unit.
Sound: Courtesy 2001 I.R.A.Noted sci-fi design consultant got his start in the 1968 classic
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Local film critic embarks on the odyssey again
Professor screens "2001" with a student who had never seen it before
"2001" fills the theater
Roger Ebert hosts wide-screen showing at the Virginia Theater
Digital GretzkyU of I researchers developing an air hockey playing computer
NASA looking beyond 2001
Space station, unmanned probes top the near-term agenda
Links to "2001" websites
Includes interviews, essays, pictures, sound bites and a chance to talk to HAL9000
