The 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Soundtrack Thread

I'm sure. Kubrick should've given him a heads up. Still, it was the right call. No film ever married image and music better.

This is one of the best examples:

 

I have been lucky enough to have seen this movie in the full 70mm projection. It looks and sounds great

 

Checking the various clips on Youtube of "2001" scenes with the Alex North music, I think Kubrick was right in his choice. North's music is nice, but has not nearly the same emotional impact as Strauss (Johann and Richard) and Ligeti. Of course not telling North about it was brutal.

2001: A Space Odyssey (score) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia »

 

Me too. I saw the Cinerama version at the St. George Theater on Staten Island back when it was released.

 

Agreed. It was bad form for Kubrick to not have given him a heads up but I must say it is typical. North did the score for Spartacus too BTW.

 

Kubrick prolly would've replaced that s/t too if he had control over the project. He basically disowned the film as a gun-for-hire job thanks to Kirk Douglas.

 

I saw 2001 at the Uptown in Washington DC (where it premiered) in 2001, a month after the terror attacks. They even installed the Cinerama screen for the event. Alas, the print and sound were atrocious, but it was fun sitting in an actual theater balcony.

 

The Mondo release of Alex North's 2001 A Space Odyssey on vinyl is excellent! And gorgeous packaging! The jacket folds out to represent the shiny "Monolith."

 

I run the New Jersey Film Festival and we did a 25th anniversary screening of 2001 in 2003 and we must have screened the same print as it was in terrible shape.

 

Slightly off topic, is there a good 70mm print of 2001 in circulation?

 

An Amazon reviewer of the Rhino CD (here) noted the Jupiter segment was edited. I assume that was done to accommodate the bonus tracks and to avoid a 2nd CD (putting the disc into CDBurnerXP to make a copy shows a run time of 79:14). I've never played this against my DVD of the film, so I don't know how much was lost.

So this particular CD is not quite the complete soundtrack but should we say it's 80-90% there?

 

Just did an Amazon search, under 'CD's and Vinyl' for '2001: A Space Odyssey'. The results list is pretty impressive just for the sheer number of variations of this soundtrack. Interestingly this list includes what appears to be a variation of the 1996 Rhino, now on Sony Australia (and cheap too!)

 

Not in circulation.

 

Agreed really bad form to do what he did. Kubrick was notorious for doing this kind of thing.

 

Did you obtain the same print that the Museum of the Moving Image screened last summer?

 

No we screened a 35mm back in 1993 for the 25th anniversary and it looked like ****. Did you see the 7omm there? Supposed to be from Warner Brothers Classics. Not sure what it looked like but they screened it in 2014 in 70mm as well. Prior to that on DCP...

 

American Cinematheque now has the rights I guess:
American Cinematheque debuts new 70-mm print of '2001: A Space Odyssey' »

 

I saw it in Panavision 70mm back in 1968 with the curved screen. Warner's has an exclusive 70mm print out now but it is exclusive.

 

This thread was very helpful as I've only had the original 1986 CD release (which I purchased in 1987) that replicated the original 8-track LP release.



https://www.discogs.com/Various-200...The-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/release/4665863

And I've always been a bit dissatisfied with it so the 1996 Rhino release sounded like it was right up my alley. Picked up a used copy on Amazon and I'm very pleased with it. Thanks!

 

That MCA version was a mess. They used the wrong cover art (Volume 2!), and the audio was muddy. But it was one of my first purchases too.

That title had come out on LP, and I actually bought it thinking it was a genuine Volume 2, which I'd always meant to pick up as a curiosity. ("Music Inspired by...") With CDs being the next new format, they simply ported it over to Compact Disc, wrong cover and all.

 

I showed up with my new membership card, but didn't know that the screening sold out in advance. I spent the sfternoon playing video games and taking in the museum with my children. Then we went over to the Queens Museum for the final day of the Ramones exhibit. I did take Matthew back to see the 70mm prints of Spartacus. Then brought both children to see the 70mm Hamlet. I'll be sure to secure advance seats for 2001 the next time it's scheduled.

 

Arhg, this quote kills me, "...American Cinematheque will have exclusive exhibition rights to in a five-year deal with Warner Brothers."

Really, one theater in the United States has a lock on the print. That bites. I'm willing to travel 90 miles north to NYC, but getting on a jet to see a movie. notgonnahappen.com

 

Well I hope that the MOMI gets a nice print OR someone springs for a new 4K or 8k scan with Dolby Vision high dynamic range encoding. My son who has been bitten by the big screen bug refuses to watch 2001 on home Blu-ray.