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USA / UK 1968
Director Stanley Kubrick's heralded masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' immediately informs the viewers of its grandeur with a realistically derived vision of human evolution. The first segment entitled "The Dawn of Man" documents our ancestors maintaining sustenance through clan support, and food foraging. The story, based on the Arthur C. Clarke novel, naturally includes a strong fictional element proposing a single event that initiated the turning point of the ascension of humankind. Somewhere in the course of our history, a single ancestor came to the realization of his ability to use a 'tool'. Initially it was effective as a weapon in hunting and reacquisition of a watering-hole from neighboring pre-hominids. This unexplainable cognitive step distinctly separates us from every known living organism in the universe that we inhabit. To see it transpire onscreen is one of the great moments of intellectually derived cinema. To simply state that visually it is awe-inspiring is to diminish its importance. What we are seeing is a recreation of the most important event in human history.
The entire film, at its crux, is proclaiming our infancy as a species. In our exploration of the endless frontier of space, we may feel technologically advanced, but Kubrick shows cinematically that we are mere children and like infants must once again learn to walk, to eat and to go to the toilet.
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heatrical Release: April 2nd, 1968 (Washington, D.C.) (premiere)Reviews More Reviews DVD Reviews
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Distribution | Warner (2007) - Region FREE - Blu-ray | Warner - Region FREE - 4K UHD | |
Runtime | 2:28:51.672 | 2:28:51.714 / 2:28:49.253 | |
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2.22:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 37,420,237,209 bytes Feature: 24,937,451,520 bytesCodec: VC-1 Video Total Video Bitrate: 13.39 Mbps |
Included Blu-ray 2.20:1 1080P Dual-layered Disc Size: 45,989,616,674 bytes Feature: 45,202,458,624 bytesCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video Total Video Bitrate: 29,98 Mbps |
4K UHD 2.20: Disc Size: 86,085,136,580 bytes Feature: 85,140,191,232 bytesCodec: HEVC Video Total Video Bitrate: 62.18 Mbps |
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Dolby Digital Audio English 448 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps /
DN -4dB
Dolby Digital Audio French 448 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps / DN
-4dB Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / DN -4dB / Dolby Surround |
DTS-HD Master Audio English 2197 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2197 kbps /
16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Dolby Digital Audio French 448 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps / DN
-4dB Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / DN -4dB / Dolby Surround |
DTS-HD Master Audio English 2197 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2197 kbps /
16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Dolby Digital Audio French 448 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps / DN
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Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps /
DN -4dB / Dolby Surround |
Subtitles | English (SDH), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Danish, Finnish, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, None | English (SDH), English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Japanese. None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Warner Home Video
2.22:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 37,420,237,209 bytes Feature: 24,937,451,520 bytesCodec: VC-1 VideoTotal Video Bitrate: 13.39 Mbps
Edition Details: Chapters 34 |
Release Information: Studio: Warner Archive
4K UHD 2.20: Disc Size: 86,085,136,580 bytes Feature: 85,140,191,232 bytesCodec: HEVC Video Total Video Bitrate: 62.18 Mbps
Included Blu-ray 2.20:1 1080P Dual-layered Disc Size: 45,989,616,674 bytes Feature: 45,202,458,624 bytesCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video Total Video Bitrate: 29,98 Mbps
Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood on both 4K UHD and second disc Blu-ray There is a 3rd Blu-ray with extras:
• Channel 4 documentary: 2001:
The Making of a Myth (43:08)
6 postcard sized art cards, collectable booklet and digital
download code Custom case 4K UHD Release Date: October 29th, 2018 Chapters: 34 |
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NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were obtained directly from the Blu-ray disc. Firstly, this is not the 'Nolan Restoration' that some were contracting 'revisionist paranoia' about . But is has significant differences from the original Blu-ray.NOTE: There is a reported issue with one transition in the film on the new UHD disc. Also an audio sync issue. As this information is expanded upon - including a recall - we will post here.
The 2001: A Space Odyssey 4K UHD disc in this package has
HDR
(High Dynamic Range).
HDR boosts a display's contrast ratio, which is the difference between
the brightest and darkest colors your TV and can show greater dynamic
range of luminosity. Increased contrast and color depth represent a
dramatic leap forward from standard 4K. "Contrast is measured by the
difference between the brightest whites and darkest blacks a TV can
display, as measured in candelas per square meter (cd/m2), known as
nits. The ideal low end is completely black, or zero nits — currently
only possible on OLED displays, which can turn pixels completely off."
NOTE:
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It is likely that the monitor
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(High Dynamic Range) where each pixel can be assigned with a wider and
notably granular range of color and light. This is the first where our
capture software if simulating the HDR (in a uniform manner) for standard
monitors. This should make it easier for us to review more
4K UHD titles in the
future.
We have reviewed the following 4K
UHD packages to date:
This is our viewing equipment:
We are using an LG
B6 65" 4K UHD HDR OLED TV display supporting both HDR & Dolby
Vision:
and an Oppo UDP-203
4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Player with HDR & Dolby Vision (UHD,
Blu-ray, 3D, DVD, DVD-Audio, SACD and CD).
Although the original Blu-ray was very appealing relative to DVD, it was weak by current standards with occasional background artefacts and less-accurate colors. With Stanley Kubrick it is the color red we talk about - sometimes referred to as 'Kubrick red' that some may recall from the robe in Spartacus. It is a deep red - where the original Blu-ray shows it as an occasional burnt-orange (Dave's space helmet or HAL's peripheral eye) or even exporting a pinkish hue (chairs in the space station.) The new Blu-ray and, to a higher degree the 4K UHD, shows this a deep, dark, solid red. Other colors - blues are more prominent - as in the sky in the 'dawn of man' and yellow (less bright, more 'brown/dark mustard' in the space station - see below.)
The new image is, generally, darker and richer with the HDR whites brighter. Contrast looks beyond amazing. Detail - facial skin-pores instil realism in the image, depth is frequently prevalent and the visuals are even more hypnotic. This image is untouchable.
One other significant improvement - the older 2007 Blu-ray image was slightly horizontally compressed. Perhaps the best way to see this is in the unique MGM logo that we have included - with the lion-silhouette it creates a circle - in the old Blu-ray it is more oval - in the new image is actually round - as it should be.
NOTE: I am very appreciative that we all re-watch certain films/BDs multiple times over the years and the image becomes our standard - making it hard to accept new, more theatrically accurate colors. People tend to like brightness because it can make colors more vibrant - and raise detail because items in the frame become more visible - but it does not make it theatrically accurate. We try to associate the word 'better' with superior representations - not personal preferences.
Audio in the new 4K UHD is likewise brilliant and a big step forward from the old Blu-ray with DTS-HD Master tracks in 5.1 surround sounding deep and powerful. 2001's music is iconic; Aram Khachaturyan's Gayaneh Ballet Suite, György Ligeti's Lux Aeterna, Requiem and Atmospheres, and famous Richard Strauss's Thus Spoke Zarathustra to Johann Strauss's The Blue Danube and even Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two) sung in Hal's disconnection. Both the the UHD disc and it's included feature Blu-ray offer many foreign language DUBs and subtitle options (including English- SDH.) All three discs are Region FREE - playable worldwide.
The commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood is on both 4K UHD and second disc Blu-ray discs. The 'special features' Blu-ray offers nothing new from the 2007 Blu-ray. It repeats the 3/4 hour Channel 4 documentary 2001: The Making of a Myth, the 21-minute Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001, the Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001, 2001: A Space Odyssey - A Look Behind the Future (4:3 - 23-minute vintage clip), What is Out There and 2001: FX and Early Conceptual Artwork (9:33 with Christine Kubrick) and the piece from Look: Stanley Kubrick! running over 1/2 hour. They also include the 1 1/4 hour audio-only interview with Stanley Kubrick conducted by Jeremy Bernstein in November of 1966. Lastly is a theatrical trailer and the package has six postcard-sized 'art cards', a collector's booklet and digital download code.
Probably the most 'must-have' digital-film package in years despite the lack of new extras. This and Criterion's Ingmar Bergman's Cinema set will top our year-end poll. The 4K UHD presentation is 'sick' it's so good - I could have rewatched it over and over again on a loop. This should lead many to buying a new 4K system. Get this.... now. |
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