Early New Year's morning and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey on a major public broadcaster. Just like in the old days of New Year's Eve national television experience. The 2001 was the cream of the New Year's Eve programming until two decades ago, with the psychedelic cineastic experience of 2001 coming at some time around 3 AM, as a reminder of something "beyond". A strong reminder of the progress in time and advent of the long awaited 2001! With that real and forgotten 2001 almost a decade behind us, Kubrick's 2001 is not behind and it's not forgotten. It is beyond, with that strange sense of anticipation and advent. I am happy that 2001 is back, even if it's back for 2010. And, as if that whole experience was not enough, the New Year's party and the night after was crowned with Laza Ristovski's futuristic "Beyond the Horizon":
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