A 40-Year Memory: 2001

No that's not bad math. It was on this date in 1968 that one of the great films of all time was released, Stanley Kubrick's amazing 2001: A Space Odyssey. As Star Wars would do 9 years later, 2001 was a radical departure from its day. It was either panned or praised at that time. Yet it has stood the test of time like only the great ones do. It is on everybody's Top 100 list. It is almost iconic.

Here's the now famous opening sequence:



And The Dawn of Man sequence:



And, just for fun (since I am a PC person), here's the Apple ad that proves how iconic HAL and 2001 have become: