Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” had its world premiere April 2, 1968, at the Uptown Theater in Northwest Washington. People in the audience were “streaming out” before the film ...

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 ...

Behold the first letter from Stanley Kubrick to science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke asking for his help penning a “really good science-fiction movie.” Five years later, the result was 2001 ...

April 25, 1971 letter from Stanley Kubrick to Arthur C. Clarke referring to civil unrest in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) as “trouble in paradise.” ...

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece comes out from Simon & Schuster on April 3 and is available online or in stores for $30/£20.

A Space Odyssey set a new standard for visual effects and single-handedly reinvented the science fiction genre. At the same time, it forced the film industry to take sci-fi seriously, elevating its ...

Kubrick’s eyes went straight to me and did not leave me as he spoke brusquely to the publicist. “Get these people off the set,” he said. We were never face to face again. “2001: a Space Odyssey” by ...

While some declare the film to be Kubrick’s greatest, it unmistakably bears the creative fingerprints of its director, the roots of the head-spinning narrative also involve Clarke who developed ...

Clarke is the novelist whose vision inspired Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey” and made it synonymous with our deepest fears and hopes for the future.

2001: A Space Odyssey is one of Stanley Kubrick's most well-known films. A science-fiction epic, ... Kubrick snatched ...

When Stanley Kubrick and sci-fi specialist Arthur C. Clarke first conceived the idea of making a Cinerama film, neither had any idea that it would run into a project of several years.