![]() After attending a post-premiere reception that felt more like a wake, the devastated director retreated with his wife, Christiane, to a rented Long Island mansion, where he continued to agonize into the night before finally falling into an exhausted sleep, his supreme self-confidence in his vision and ability apparently gone. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece,” Kubrick may not have overheard that particular remark, but he had apparently reached much the same conclusion. Clarke overheard a comment from an executive from MGM, the studio whose $12 million Kubrick had just spent: “Well, that’s the end of Stanley Kubrick.”Īs Michael Benson describes in “Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. People who had been merely squirming in their seats began walking out by the end of the screening, well over 200 had departed. And snide comments like “Let’s move it along,” as the star, Keir Dullea, jogged interminably around the centrifuge of the spaceship Discovery. Not long into the first half of the nearly three-hour-long film, the boos began. ![]() ![]() Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece,” by Michael Benson (Simon & Schuster, 497 pages). BOOK REVIEW - “Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. ![]()
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