Stanley Kubrick's Transcendent Gift of Cinema

Rating: 10/10 (26 November 2001)

There is no doubt about it.
If ever there was a film that, in all of its theatrical exhibition awesomeness, could put to rest the cine-old argument over theatrical screening versus video screening, this is IT. Where narrative structure and dialogue are never lost on the small screen, the aesthetics of sight and sound that imbue the viewer in the transcendent experience that all cinema has the potential to be, are lost in that environment. Those who may have endured (or attempted to endure) this opus in the inferior format that found themselves doubting the integrity of the film or the validity of its supporters can bare no argument that can hold any water until they have witnessed it in the theatre. Moreover, even those supporters of the picture that have viewed it approvingly on their television monitors have short changed themselves and the filmmaker to have given praise without this experience. You can not know, or claim to know, 2001 until you have seen it there. This is the truth of great cinema.