An Evening with Phil Lord and Chris Miller: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Guest Artistic Director

Screening to be preceded by a conversation with AFI FEST Guest Artistic Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller.

With his 1968 sci-fi epic, Stanley Kubrick redefined the limits of filmmaking and cemented his legacy as one of the most revolutionary and influential directors of all time. Originally released in 70mm Cinerama roadshow format following the film’s world premiere on April 2, 1968, at the Uptown Theater in Washington, DC, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY ignited the imaginations of critics and audiences alike, and its impact continues to resonate to this day. Kubrick’s dazzling, Academy Award®–winning achievement is a compelling drama of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke) first visits man’s prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia into colonized space and ultimately whisks astronaut David Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted territory, perhaps even into immortality. “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is an awesome journey unlike any other.