‘I was totally devastated’: readers on their saddest movie deaths
After Guardian writers shared their most affecting big screen deaths, you responded with yours, from Leon to Aftersun
March 2023
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
July 2022
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
February 2022
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
January 2021
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
March 2020
The classic film I've never seen
I've never seen … 2001: A Space Odyssey
Film blog
From Fight Club to Brief Encounter: how self-isolation would change classic films
January 2020
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
April 2019
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition review – catnip for mid-century modern fans
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition review – from erotic milk bars to haunted hotels
February 2019
Nine films that should have won best picture at the Oscars
The Academy’s biggest oversights and most controversial choices from nine decades of ceremonies
November 2018
Douglas Rain, voice of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, dies aged 90
The actor best known for his role in Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi classic was a leading Shakespearean in his native Canada and also played on Broadway
October 2018
‘Festival of Stanley’: touring Kubrick exhibition heads to UK
London to host 2019 tribute to film-maker behind The Shining and A Clockwork Orange
September 2018
Elena Ferrante’s Weekend column
Elena Ferrante: ‘Solaris is not Tarkovsky’s best film, but it made the greatest impression on me’
Solaris is astonishing because the book that inspired it doesn’t seem to contain Tarkovsky’s film
May 2018
Film blog
Christopher Nolan at Cannes: 'I want the young to sit in awe at 2001: A Space Odyssey'
From the Guardian archive
2001: A Space Odyssey review: 'an interstellar shaggy dog story' - archive, 1968
April 2018
Kubrick’s 2001: the film that haunts our dreams of space
The film director’s masterpiece, which has influenced scientists and artists alike, is 50 years old this month
Stanley Kubrick 'risked stuntman's life' making 2001: A Space Odyssey
Director refused to stop filming as stuntman Bill Weston lost consciousness, new book claims
50 years of 2001: A Space Odyssey – how Kubrick's sci-fi 'changed the very form of cinema'
As Stanley Kubrick’s monolithic movie celebrates its half century, special effects gurus, directors and those who worked on the film consider its legacy
March 2018
My favourite film decade
From Blow-Up to Bonnie and Clyde – why the 1960s is my favourite film decade
Rebellion against ‘le cinema du papa’ was the rallying cry of new waves worldwide in this golden era of studio-funded oddness
