Canadian actor Douglas Rain must have one of the best known voices on the movie screen, and despite a relatively limited career in film, much of his renown comes from voicing HAL, the on board computer of the spacecraft USS Discovery, in 1967's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the 1984 follow-up 2010: Odyssey Two. Yet what does he look like? I don't recall ... Read full entry

Very cool MySpace tribute, and resource, page dedicated to Stanley Kubrick, compiled by Carletto di San Giovanni. Via Kottke.

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 ... Read full entry

The 2001 Spacesuit Restoration Project Dennis Gilliam is, piece by piece, restoring one of the spacesuits used in Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's movie classic 2001 : A Space Odyssey. About the only intact piece of the outfit however was the helmet... sans visor. Since the visor in the original red helmet needed replacing, I had to come up with a method for making accurate visors. I built a ... Read full entry

2001: A Space Odyssey turns 40 I wonder if an anniversary screening of some sort is planned in Sydney? It's been a (just a little) while since I last saw 2001. "The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in 2001: A Space Odyssey but in how little. This is the work of an artist so sublimely confident that he doesn't include a single shot simply to keep ... Read full entry