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Topic: "2001:A Space Odyssey" re-issue
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James Keel
Film Handler
Posts: 16
From: Dallas, TX, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 05-20-2001 07:23 AM
This was posted on Jeffery Wells' column on Reel.com called 'Hollywood Confidential'...Resolved: Warner Bros.' planned theatrical re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey will not be happening, despite a newly struck, digital-sound 70mm version having been shown at February's Berlin Film Festival and then at Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival. And despite WB's funding of both a 35mm remastering with a new digital soundtrack (which almost opened at L.A.'s Nuart and S.F's Castro theaters last January, only to be pulled) and the new 70 mm version. A shame. I wanted once more to see this masterwork in 70mm on a big screen with needle-sharp focus. If you haven't seen it this way, you haven't seen it.
Thats too bad, I was looking forward to it, having never seen it. I know, slap my hand. 
JK
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John Gordon
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Posts: 62
From: Earth
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 09-21-2001 12:00 PM
Variety Magazine, dated 20 Sept., reports "2001 Returns to theaters in 70mm version."It's about time. "A digitally restored print of '2001: A Space Odyssey'
will be released in theaters for a limited 70mm run,
Warner Bros. said Wednesday.
"Seattle's Cinerama will start screenings of the digitally
restored classic Oct. 5, with Dec. dates set for L.A.'s
Egyptian Theatre, San Francisco's Castro and the Uptown in
Washington D.C." Funny, no mention of sound format: mag, dts, nothing.
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John Wilson
Film God
Posts: 5438
From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 10-17-2001 06:17 AM
The latest from Showbizdata.com...>>NO 2001 IN 2001 Although it had seemed like a foregone conclusion that Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey would be restored and re-released by Warner Bros. in 2001, it may only get limited distribution in four cities -- Seattle, Washington DC, San Francisco and Los Angeles -- late this year, according to Wired magazine. A wider release is planned for 2002 if this year's screenings produce a profit, the magazine said. Warner's hesitant plans have received a tongue lashing from critic Roger Ebert, who featured the film at his Overlooked Film Festival in April (although the film could hardly be described as "overlooked"). Ebert told Wired: "Seeing it on a big screen in 70mm is not just seeing a better picture, but essentially having a different experience. ... Those unlucky enough to have seen it only on video have not really seen it at all."<< Well put, Roger.
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