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...after all a sequel, despite director Peter Hyams' claims to the contrary. The long, even tedious, introduction at the beginning, explaining the action of 2001 belies Hyam's statement that he intended to make a completely independent film, 2001 may have left you wondering what exactly Stanley Kubrick was trying to say, but it was definitely an intriguing film and helped define the science fiction genre. It must be remembered that when the film opened in 1968, man had yet to walk in space, put laboratories and reusable space vehicles into orbit or even land on some of our neighboring...
...Maazel, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon). Who could have predicted that a tone poem based on Friedrich Nietzsche's notions of the death of God, the will to power and the rise of a superman would become one of symphonic literature's greatest hits? Yet long before Director Stanley Kubrick popularized its spectacular organ and brass apostrophe in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Strauss's blazing essay in orchestrational virtuosity ranked high in audiences' esteem. Maazel and the Viennese give this mettle tester a commanding reading, capturing the grandeur of its arresting introduction, the suavity of its incongruous waltz...
...moon. That is why "Release," which starts out very much like "Interlude I" (from I), complete with the appropriate pauses, changes into an enchanted theme of discovery like the one which accompanies the opening of the Ark in "Raiders of the Lost Ark. "Furthermore, living long before Stanley Kubrick. Kepler seems to have missed the age of Tocattas in space they were probably reserved for such mundane things as Summer and Winter (the themes of III and IV, respectively) And the likeness with movie themes is no coincidence. In fact, many people, upon hearing the album for the first time...
...possible to put this kind of material on the screen successfully, as Stanley Kubrick proved in Lolita. But it requires discretion in handling the queasy physical facts of the case, a certain ironic detachment about the human capacity for turning sexual adventure into sexual folly, and a firm sense of values on the director's part. Farce, which must accept its characters on their own dumb or dizzy terms, is the wrong way to handle the dubious premise of a film like Blame It on Rio. It is too indelicate...
...enthusiastic about Christine. "I wanted to go back and see it over again," the author says. "I've been lucky. I've had six adaptations of my novels, and there hasn't been a real dog in the bunch." (His only major reservation was with Stanley Kubrick's elegant, brooding 1980 version of The Shining; King found the director too "pragmatic and rational.") Though he has finished three drafts of a screenplay for The Stand, King vows that he has given up trying to adapt his own novels to the screen. "It's like sitting...