The Making of Kubrick's 2001

The critics loved it.

The critics hated it.

The Making of Kubrick's 2001takes you behind the sets and scenes of the most controversial film of the decade. Here is the inside story of a monumental achievement conceded even by its enemies to mark a turning point in the art of cinema.

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"If 2001has stirred your emotions, your subconscious, your mythological yearnings, then it has succeeded."—Stanley Kubrick

Subject
history
Themes
moviesart
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 367 pages

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