About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 122. Chapters: Lawrence of Arabia, Airport, The Big Fisherman, Hamlet, Patton, Doctor Dolittle, Baraka, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, The Sound of Music, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Tron, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, West Side Story, Ben-Hur, Around the World in 80 Days, My Fair Lady, The Alamo, Porgy and Bess, The New World, Cleopatra, Mackenna's Gold, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Star!, Far and Away, Ryan's Daughter, The 1 Second Film, Battle of the Bulge, Hello, Dolly!, Ice Station Zebra, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Oklahoma!, Play Time, War and Peace, Mutiny on the Bounty, Exodus, South Pacific, Lord Jim, Khartoum, Grand Prix, Little Buddha, Dersu Uzala, Raintree County, Cheyenne Autumn, Scent of Mystery, Szerelmi almok - Liszt, The Hallelujah Trail, Can-Can, The Last Valley, Map of the Human Heart, The Bible: In the Beginning, Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable, Old Shatterhand, Krakatoa, East of Java, The Agony and the Ecstasy, La Marca del Hombre Lobo, Song of Norway, Samsara, Symbiosis, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Love in 3-D, Dr. Coppelius. Excerpt: 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 American epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, and co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life. It is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, ambiguous imagery that is open-ended to a point approaching surrealism, sound in place of traditional narrative techniques, and minimal use of dialogue. The film has a memorable soundtrack-the result of the association that Kubrick made between the spinning motion of the satellites and the dancers of waltzes, which led him to...
