2001: A Space Odyssey

Batmobiles, Bugs Bunny and James Dean’s jeans: a day inside the Warner Bros top-secret archive

To celebrate 100 years, the studio is letting reporters into a protected vault of movie treasures. Just don’t try and find it on Google maps

Lois Beckett in Los Angeles

25, Mar, 2023 @10:00 AM

Out of this world: Guardian writers on their favourite movies with aliens

To celebrate the release of Jordan Peele’s new UFO thriller Nope, critics have picked their top films about extra terrestrials

Charles Bramesco, Radheyan Simonpillai, Lisa Wong Macabasco, Benjamin Lee, Andrew Pulver, Scott Tobias, Veronica Esposito, Andrew Lawrence, Jesse Hassenger, AA Dowd and Adrian Horton

20, Jul, 2022 @6:04 AM

Douglas Trumbull, visual effects artist on 2001: A Space Odyssey, dies at 79

Much-respected figure in visual effects was also known for work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Tree of Life

Andrew Pulver

08, Feb, 2022 @6:41 PM

Space oddity: song rejected by Kubrick for 2001 released after 52 years

Stanley Kubrick asked a young publicist to write a track for his movie, but didn’t use it. Now we can all hear it

Vanessa Thorpe, Arts and Media Correspondent

17, Jan, 2021 @7:15 AM

I've never seen … 2001: A Space Odyssey

Continuing our series in which writers fess up to – and rectify – gaps in their film education, Cath Clarke on whether Kubrick’s space epic stands up

Cath Clarke

30, Mar, 2020 @8:30 AM

From Fight Club to Brief Encounter: how self-isolation would change classic films

It’s now difficult to watch movies without worrying about the two-metre rule – here are the retrospective plot changes required to mean old movies pass muster

Stuart Heritage

24, Mar, 2020 @4:16 PM

Inside the odyssey: taking a closer look at Stanley Kubrick's 2001

At an expansive new exhibition in New York, the director’s defining science fiction opus is explored in detail with help from those who made it with him

Jordan Hoffman

16, Jan, 2020 @8:15 AM

Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition review – catnip for mid-century modern fans

An exhibition of the enigmatic film-maker’s paraphernalia is rich in detail but low on magic

Catherine Slessor

28, Apr, 2019 @6:59 AM

Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition review – from erotic milk bars to haunted hotels

Design Museum, London
This astounding exhibition reveals the obsessive level of genius the great director showed, whether inventing the space age – or restaging the Vietnam war in a London gas works

Oliver Wainwright

25, Apr, 2019 @10:54 AM