"i’ve been watching 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY regularly for four decades, but it wasn’t until a few years ago i started thinking about touching it," Steven Soderbergh writes (in all lowercase) on Extension 765. And he's not kidding. As detailed in his lengthy list of everything he watched and read last year, Soderbergh sat down with Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" three times in 2014, and then read "The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey" by Piers Bizony. And now, he felt ready to take the scissors to the movie.
As he did for "Psycho" and "Raiders Of The Lost Ark," Soderbergh has taken Kubrick's film and put through his own filter, resulting in a shorter version (running a mere one-hour-and-fifty minutes long), that is also radically recut. And for you tech heads, Soderbergh has a lot to say about his many viewing experiences of '2001' (he used the Blu-ray transfer for this):
i’ve seen every conceivable kind of...
