Today in 1968, the film 2001: A Space Odyssey had its world premiere at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C. Reflecting the mixed reactions to the film, Renata Adler wrote in The New York Times that it was “somewhere between hypnotic and immensely boring.”
The 160-minute film with only 40 minutes of dialogue went on to become “the movie that changed al…
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