'At last! The dense, intense, detailed, and authoritative saga of the making of the greatest motion picture I've ever seen.Michael Benson has done the Cosmos a great service' (Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks). And it features dozens of photos from the making of the film, most never previously published. Drawing also from other previously unpublished interviews, Space Odyssey provides a 360-degree view of the film from its genesis to its legacy, including many previously untold stories. He has had the cooperation of Kubrick's widow, Christiane, and interviewed most of the key people still alive who worked on the film. In Space Odyssey, author, artist, and award-winning filmmaker Michael Benson 'delivers expert inside stuff' (San Francisco Chronicle) from his extensive research of Kubrick's and Clarke's archives. Drawing from Clarke's ideas and with one of the author's short stories as the initial inspiration, their bold vision benefited from pioneering special effects that still look extraordinary today, even in an age of computer-generated images. Strangelove, Kubrick wanted to make the first truly first-rate science fiction film. In 'Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C.

Fresh off the success of his cold war satire Dr. The movie was the product of a singular collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and science fiction visionary Arthur C. Still acclaimed as one of the most remarkable and important motion pictures ever made, 2001: A Space Odyssey depicted the first contacts between humanity and extraterrestrial intelligence. Drawing upon exhaustive research, author Michael Benson takes the reader behind the scenes of arguably the greatest science fiction movie of all time. Clarke-'a tremendous explication of a tremendous film.Breathtaking' (The Washington Post).įifty years ago a strikingly original film had its premiere. If, like me, you are an unabashed fan of 2001: A Space Odyssey then this book is required reading. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, and of director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C.

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