Denis Villeneuve lists Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' among his favorite films. The 1968 classic remains awe-inspiring and relevant.

Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the original release of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," a seminal film in motion picture history and one that has awed — and confused ...

This week marks the 50th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's 2001, A Space Odyssey. As NPR critic Bob Mondello looks back he says the film made screen sci-fi respectable.

Today we revisit the grandiose British rock band’s second album, a supranatural space odyssey powered by all-too-human emotion.

When “2001: A Space Odyssey” premiered, its early audiences didn’t see the future. They saw red. The film was shown on April 3, 1968, at Times Square’s Loews Capitol Theater for an invited ...

Near the beginning of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a big black monolith appears in an African desert, leaving a group of prehistoric ape-men standing there baffled. And that was pretty ...

Watching a 50th-anniversary screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I found myself, a mathematician and computer scientist whose research includes work related to artificial intelligence, comparing ...

Director Stanley Kubrick’s landmark space saga, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” turns 50 this year, remaining remarkably relevant and influential even 17 years after surpassing its titular year ...

"2001: A Space Odyssey" premiered 50 years ago this week, making now a perfect time to look back on the key personalities that created the iconic film. In his new book "Space Odyssey" (Simon ...

Fifty years ago this week, "2001: A Space Odyssey" captured the nation's imagination with a scientifically plausible vision of space travel. Now a new Smithsonian exhibit celebrating the film's ...

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece (Simon & Schuster, 512 pp., ★★★ out of four) effectively chronicles all of it, down to the smallest spaceship ...