Special Gala: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Kubrick’s masterpiece consistently tops lists of the greatest and most influential movies and demands to be experienced on the immersive big screen.

A colony of apes. An artificial intelligence named HAL. A mysterious black monolith… Words can’t do justice to this awe-inspiring, singular cinematic vision – a strange, beautiful and astonishing ballet of sound and light, certainty and questions.

Influencing Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, James Cameron, Christopher Nolan and countless others, this is the work of a consummate artist, burnishing its original literary sources with striking images and sequences to create one of modern cinema’s most extraordinary and mysterious journeys. 2001: A Space Odyssey is both much imitated, and a film like no other. Chris Chibnall

“Stanley wanted to create a myth. And I think that he succeeded.” Arthur C. Clarke

UK/USA, 1968. Director Stanley Kubrick. Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, inspired by Clarke’s short stories The Sentinel (1951) and Encounter in the Dawn (1953). With Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood. 139 mins. U

Introduced by Chris Chibnall.

Screening sponsored by 

Installation by Style and Wonder.

Screening at Electric Palace
£12
25-and-under £5
10% off for BAC supporters

BFI programme notes

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