2001: A Space Odyssey
Tue, Dec 31
|Epsilon Spires Sanctuary
New Years Eve: enjoy Stanley Kubrick's epic Sci-fi Classic on our Sanctuary screen paired with futuristic catering & color-evolving cocktails.
Time & Location
Dec 31, 2019, 7:00 PM
Epsilon Spires Sanctuary, 190 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
Considered by The Moving Arts Film Journal to be the greatest film of all time, and selected for preservation in the US Library of Congress’s National Film Registry due to its cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, has remained deeply imprinted on our human story for the past half-century. It is hard to imagine that any other movie has been referenced more in the last 50 years of Western popular culture. Science blogger, Stephen Cass, summed it up perfectly when he wrote, "the balletic spacecraft scenes set to sweeping classical music, the tarantula-soft tones of HAL 9000, and the ultimate alien artifact, the monolith, have all become enduring cultural icons in their own right."
We are still as enchanted by ancient monoliths today, even as our scientific understanding of their origin deepens. Almost 20 years after the past-future time-stamp of 2001, one of the biggest…