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...film's most indelible images remains that of Glenn in orbit, his helmet's shield reflecting the moons light and covering what little hair Ed Harris's Glenn possesses. As he literally looks around the world, he reminds one of the infant at the end of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: a child on the verge of discovery. The Right Stuff takes us along for this ride and Ed Harris almost makes us believe that charm is all the Right Stuff you need...
Nothing, however, can give it the substance. Under all the furor, spontaneous or manufactured, and the high urgency, real or prefabricated just for the premiere, is the film, a frail vessel indeed to bear the fate of mankind. History and distance have not made Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove any less great or-sadly-less relevant, but even a movie as fine as that would have to struggle to stay above the sort of ideological tide surging around The Day After. No one has yet made the case that Dr. Strangelove has been bested, although there...
...stare in unashamed wonder at the first appearance of a little space creature. In the 1981 television version, they just stared: the space creature was cut out of the picture. "It was a disaster," Spielberg recalls. "It looked worse than the super-8 movies I make myself." Says Stanley Kubrick, whose 2001 lost the introduction of the star child in its wondrous last sequence to some bad panning and scanning in 1977: "It's a very unsatisfactory technique. It destroyed the compositional elements and often looks like a TV football game when the camera follows the man without...
There is a simple alternative to all this - "better, but still not perfect," in Stanley Kubrick's words - which involves masking the top and bottom of the transmitted TV image and showing the film in what the industry calls "the letterbox format." The image stretches from one side of the screen to the other, leaving a narrow black border at top and bottom and losing only the extreme sides of the frame. This technique reasonably preserves the director's original compositions. European television has been using such masking for years, but American television has remained leery...
Film makers are already considering alternatives. Kubrick thinks "the ideal solution, extremely simple to do, would be for theatrical films once again to be shot in the original format that was the standard before CinemaScope." Director Martin Scorsese is launching a film-preservation committee that will attempt to ensure, among other things, that "if film makers make a picture in 'Scope, it gets shown that way on television." And Spielberg, who says that Manhattan looked "wonderful" masked, is going to "insist" that the next network showing of Close Encounters be masked as well. "Maybe...