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Date: Wednesday April 07, 1999   09:58:23
Name: Tony De Luca
Comments: Stanley Kubrick has influenced my life ever since I was 13 years old. I will never forget the magic of viewing 2001 in Cinerama at the Cinestage theatre with my brother in Chicago. I became very interested in his films at the age of 16. To this day 2001 remains the most spectacular piece of filmmaking I have ever had the pleasure of laying my eyes on. Dr. Strangelove and Paths Of Glory are my next favorite Kubrick films. For a man I have never met, he has remained one of the most influential people in my life. Kubrick may be gone, but the memories will live on forever. Tony De Luca

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Date: Friday April 02, 1999   09:40:39
Name: Douglas H. King
Comments: This is a marvelous site. Underman, you have done very well. Stanely Kubrick was the last, great director and he will be sorely missed.

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Date: Sunday March 28, 1999   07:55:30
Name: k.v.harsha
Comments: FAREWELL TO THE MOVIE MOGUL ,MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE IN STARGATE WHICH HE CREATED IN THE 2001 WITH HAL AND DAVE

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Date: Monday March 22, 1999   06:20:11
Name: John MacLean
Comments: Stanley you were the master! You have profoundly affected my life for the better. Your vision and talent will be missed.

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Date: Saturday March 20, 1999   13:07:38
Name: Costas and Vicky from Greece
Comments: The master is gone.We,Vicky and Costas, are poorer. Farewell...

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Date: Sunday March 14, 1999   18:21:55
Name: Marcello Migone Girotti
Comments: Thank you for this site, i´m a 2001 and kubrik fan, i love this picture that changed my life for ever. Kubrik is the best.

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Date: Sunday March 14, 1999   14:39:03
Name: fredrik fahlman
Comments: The first Kubrick movie I saw was 2001 at a movie theatre at the age of 11. It was an exhilarating experience, confusing, but the movie has stayed with me ever since. Since I now am in the business of composing contemporary music for orchestra and chamber ensembles, I believe the contemporary music Kubrick used in 2001 and THE SHINING entered my subconcious and probably was an important, if not the only ingredient in my choice of career. Ive grown to appreciate 2001 even more in later years, when you look at the shallow nonsense that emerges from Hollywood nowadays. A filmic genius has passed away, Stanley Kubrick is dead, his movies will live on. Thanks for a really great page, the analysis of SOLARIS is an intriguing complement to reading about 2001, I will watch SOLARIS again soon.

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Date: Sunday March 14, 1999   13:23:44
Name: Z
Comments: About your comments: ‘I have always tried to dispel any notion that there is a fixed set of answers to the countless questions that the movie has raised. Anyone who seeks a key to what may appear to be the puzzle - "what does it mean?" - has to face the same reality: that the key lies within themselves'. I agree with you entirely. In fact, I think this is the most significant aspect of 2001: it provoked a powerful experience which at the same time refused to be reduced to any intellectual concept. But it seems that people just can't deal with this, doesn't it? In fact, it seems that people have never been able to deal with this. People down the centuries have always tried to reduce their experiences to arbitrary intellectual concepts, usually borrowed from religious creeds or 'scientific' theories. But none have anything to say about the experience, and they always detract from it. 2001, like any pure experience, challenges people to ask themselves what is actually a fundamental question: will they learn to except a meaningful, life-affirming experience as it comes, or will they continue to pin down, suffocate and ultimately detach and protect themselves from all real experience with their silly little intellectual constructs and beliefs? I don't think you actually need any belief system to live by, whether it's based on science or Adam and Eve. And that doesn't mean I think life is meaningless; in fact, as long as there are films like 2001 around, and people like Kubrick to make them, life is actually far more meaningful, spontaneous, spiritual and optimistic. In the wake of his death, it would be nice to think that people might start to reassess his work and come to appreciate what his films were for. If not, I only hope I for one can be as true to myself in my next film...

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Date: Sunday March 14, 1999   10:27:40
Name: martin gorski
Comments: `2001` changed my life

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Date: Sunday March 14, 1999   01:46:21
Name: David Copping
Comments: I have never forgotten the experience of seeing 2001 for the first time in Cinerama from the dress circle of a cinema in London at a midnight performance. You floated through space. You travelled through the stargate. You were in the film. No subsequent viewing, and I have seen it many times, has come close to that first experience. I really believed that the technology in the film would be real by 2001 and it is a great disappointment to me that it has not come true. Anyhow the technology in the film is not as important as the message which will always remain valid however dated the film becomes. Kubrick is dead - long live the vision of Kubrick.

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Date: Saturday March 13, 1999   12:02:37
Name: Mike Anscombe
Comments: A super site for all 2001 aficionados! I've loved the film ever since first seeing it in 1969 and you've answered many of the technical questions I had on the production. Truly, they don't make films like that anymore (nor directors like Kubrick). Congratulations and thanks again. Mike Anscombe

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Date: Friday March 12, 1999   08:34:13
Name: MARIA
Comments: KUBRIC IS THE BEST.STOP.........

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Date: Thursday March 11, 1999   16:28:25
Name: j
Comments: First off, great site. Second, I too was saddened by the loss of Mr. Kubrick. Just a few days before his passing, one of the local PBS stations showed 2001: A Space Odyssey. I think it still holds up well after 30 years. On that Sunday when he passed, I had just finished reading 2061: Odyssey Three. I think it would have been great if Mr. Kubrick had directed both 2010 and 2061. His passing will be greatly missed. I am curious to know, are Mr. Atkinson's space craft prints for sale? I too would like to build models of the 2001 craft. Has he done, or is he planning to do drawings that show the other views? It would really help if there were other views that showed like front, back, underside, etc. Is he also planning to do drawings of the other craft like the Moonbus and Space Station? How about drawings of the Clavius Moonbase and the TMA 1 excavation site? I'd really like to make dioramas of those. Maybe even the Leonov from 2010. I'd really like to know if such drawings will ever be available. Thanks, and keep up the great work.

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Date: Thursday March 11, 1999   09:07:30
Name: Alberto Chimal
Comments: A few days ago, Stanley Kubrick died. The loss, which many of us feel really deeply, leaves us, still, one consolation: the fact that Kubrick was not a frustrated genius (like Orson Welles) and could follow his vision more easily. Because of that, he could make several of the most significant films in the history of cinema: A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove and, above all, 2001. May them make the future moviegoers rejoice, wonder, and think. Alberto Chimal Mexico City

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Date: Thursday March 11, 1999   09:00:19
Name: Franco Zanette
Comments: When HAL 9000 is dying he sung Humpty Dumpty; In Italian It sounds like this: Giro giro tondo casca il mondo casca la terra tutti giu` per terra. Stanley Is Dead. Viva Stanley.

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Date: Wednesday March 10, 1999   14:09:41
Name: Mark E. Blunck
Comments: To all Kubrick fans, I realize that everyone out there is reminiscing about Kubrick and his films. In 1968, at the age of 12, I went to the River Hills Cinerama Theatre in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, to see this greatly anticipated cinematic event, 2001. The theatre had just been completed and 2001 was its first billing. My friend and I stood in line and as we watched I was overwhelmed with the visuals and the structure. This was like nothing I had seen before and when we walked out I stated, "I have absolutely no idea what I saw, but this is the greatest film every made." Thirty one years later and I still believe my first impressions as a pre-teen. Kubrick was the first time I recalled noticing the names in the credits. His name stuck in my mind and about three years later, a local TV station was showing Dr. Strangelove in the afternoon. And, of course, I saw his name again, and realized that I was witnessing genius. In the late seventies, I read the novel Lolita and thought that this would really make a great film. Well, after a bit of research I found out that not only has it been made into a film, but it was done by Kubrick. And very fittingly, Eyes Wide Shut will be released on my birthday, July 16th. What started as a love affair with his films at the age of 12, will now witness its last entry on my birthday. To Stan, wherever you may be, you have left a permanent mark on cinema history and your work will live on forever. If only we had the nerve to have built the machinery and technology as depicted in 2001. As I believe Arthur C. Clarke once stated, "The money spent on the Vietnam War would have paid for what we illustrated in 2001. Please correct me if I have given the wrong credit on this statement, but it probably is true. And, let's remember his wife, Christiane, the female prisoner at the end of Paths of Glory, and his daughters, most notably Vivian, who played Dr. Floyd's daughter Squirt, made the Making of The Shining, and wrote the original music for Full Metal Jacker, under the name of Abigail Mead. A heartfelt Thanks to Stan for his work, and sympathy for the family. Open the pod bay doors, HAL. You have a new visitor.

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Date: Wednesday March 10, 1999   13:06:13
Name: Les Chatfield
Comments: 2001 changed my life for ever.I saw it 22 times during its London release and would love to see it at a Cinarama moviehose again.The achingly bautiful Space scenes are constantly with me

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Date: Tuesday March 09, 1999   16:50:18
Name: Clóvis Vieira
Comments: O mundo perde um grande gênio do cinema.

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Date: Tuesday March 09, 1999   09:01:12
Name: Edward J Cox
Comments: 2001 & S. Kubrick and A C. Clark gave us a wonderful picture of the future. It's sweeping messages and visual glimpses of past and future stirred my soul and being. I pray for Stans soul, but give thanks for having had the oppertunity to view the works of his life. Man will come full circle, the god of 2001 is omnipotent and undefined. Much like life, here in 1999 we near the threshold of 2001 yet in reality the real mysteries will always be beyond our grasp. Thanks for the "different point of view"

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Date: Tuesday March 09, 1999   05:45:38
Name: Andrew Newstead
Comments: 9/3/99 Like many people here, I was saddened by the news of Stanley Kubrick's death at the weekend. Obviously I am a 2001 fan, but I've always been interested in the films that Kubrick made and I feel that we have lost a take on Humanity that we are going to miss (especially given the current trend of films from Hollywood). One aspect I would like to comment on about Kubrick and his films is control. Kubrick was (is) described as an Auter, in total control of his films. Yet in most of his films his protagonists are definatly not in control of events. In "The Shining", Jack Nicolson is taken over by the supernatural, in "Paths of Glory" Kirk Douglas is up against a system determined to maintain it's status quo. Dr Strangelove had us powerless against another system, this time the procedures taking us to nuclear war. Spartacus has a man being overwhelmed by the events he started as the slave revolt takes on a life of it's own and sweeps Spartacus to his doom. And, of course, 2001 where we see that Humanities own destiny may not be totally in our own hands. What this says about Kubrick, I don't know, maybe someone who reads this could. I look forward to seeing Kubrick's last film with interest. Andrew

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Date: Tuesday March 09, 1999   01:05:43
Name: Andrew Daneman
Comments: It is an impressive site, sir. 2001 is a powerful experience, indeed. It leaves some dazed for weeks, some dazed for years, and some dazed for a much longer period of time. It is a prophecy; it is an intoxicating dream; it is a transcendent escapade into the realm of the unknown. However, I would that all might consider the "film" in its true spirit of comparative religion. Being a "Western" film, it is interesting to note that the theme of the "deification" of man (Childhood's End) would traditionally be considered Satanic throughout the history of our culture, because of which, Kubrick draws a sword in his declaration of philosophical (theological) jihad. What has happened before? Dave, are you clean? The monoliths are not subject to entropy. HAL, you have committed a sin. The accumulation of information is confused for the evolution of consciousness. Mr. Kubrick has left the planet. Moonwatcher didn't ask to be born. This rock is over one billion years old. There's a lonely man in New York City, population fifteen million. HAL-9000 is ISO 9002 certified. Annuit Coeptus, Novus Ordo Seclorum. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-25 was discovered in 1937 by a Swedish chemist, and in 1967 by Frank Unger. "We've received a transmission from Jupiter..." Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. Thank you for your page on the world wide web.

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Date: Monday March 08, 1999   23:30:46
Name: Gabriel F. Martinez
Comments: Let´s share our silent Atmospheres in a Requiem for Kubrick. The Shining of his Lux Aeterna will lead us, in the 2001, to the Star Gate, previously to our Transfiguration. I hope that the Maestro, will rest in an Adagio. Gabriel

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Date: Monday March 08, 1999   21:38:23
Name: Phil Sterett
Comments: Mr. Kubrick's work had the ability to alter your brain and knock your thinking off center......fantastic! We have lost a true true artist. He will be missed.

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Date: Monday March 08, 1999   12:28:24
Name: Mark Alinsky
Comments: My regards to the late Mr.Kubrick. Irreplaceable.

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Date: Monday March 08, 1999   11:55:59
Name: Dennis Gonzales
Comments: I am shocked and sadden that we lost the greatest filmaker in history of movies. The past two months, I have been working on an exhibit dedicated to the movie, "2001: a space odyssey", slated to open in November (http://www.best.com/~elusive/2001.html), in the San Francisco bay area. It is not only about the greatest science fiction of all time but a retrospect of 1968. I guess now, I will dedicate the exhibit to Mr. Kubrick and his contribution to mankind. Thank you very much Stanley and God bless you and your family. Dennis elusive@best.com www.best.com/~elusive/space1999.html

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Date: Monday March 08, 1999   11:40:34
Name: Nicolai Kiel
Comments: Dear Stanley, many, many thanx for what Your gave to us in Your past live. Farewell! I wish You all the best for Your next reincarnation. EVERY REMEMBRANCE IS PRESENCE With deep respect.................................Nicolai Kiel.

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Date: Sunday March 07, 1999   17:03:50
Name: Bill Strausbaugh
Comments: I just found out today, March 7, that Stanley Kubrick has died. It was a shock to say the least. 2001 has a a very important impact in my life. It was the first film to make me look at movies a little more seriously. And it made me want to be Dave Bowman so bad. Mr. Kubrick will most certainly be missed. He was a true genius of the cinema.

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Date: Sunday March 07, 1999   15:59:32
Name: Dominic Phelan
Comments: What a great shame that Kubrick will not now see 2001 with his own eyes. He will always deserve our respect for the ideas he has left us with, but we will never get to see AI. It is the great film that will never be. Kubrick has now entered the "stargate" - I hope it is full of stars. Farwell.

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