The differences between Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey on 35mm and 70mm film are stark enough, to say nothing of viewing the movie on a small screen format.

I’ve seen 2001 well in excess of 100 times (it is, without peer, the greatest motion picture ever made), in formats as disparate as 70mm, laser disk, VHS, broadcast TV, DVD and even the awful, scratched, discolored 35mm print, complete with a missed reel change, at Tribeca. My opinion of the film has never wavered, regardless of the picture quality or format idiosyncrasies. I will admit, however, that different formats play 2001 differently, as is true of all films.

I wonder how many times I’ve seen 2001. At the movies, on video, DVD.

In 2001, when it was re-released, a local cinema ran it for week. Guess how many days that week I went to see it?

Then of course there was the time Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood spoke at special screening two years ago in Sydney. Maybe not 100 times, but quite a few nonetheless.