"People saw ('2001') again and again and again, and they wrote and wrote and wrote about it, and talked about it. And it was really the dominant cinematic topic of conversation for a year. So people knew then that it was great. But they didn't necessarily know what it was about, and maybe today we don't know what it's about. There are all kinds of ways to read that material, and there is no one way that's necessarily right."
--Roger Ebert, Pulitzer Prize winning film critic
Dr. Chandra, I'm ready to start the countdown if you want. (From 2010)
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
