Published on 12, July, 2020
Mine is 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Is that where we're headed?
Towards becoming balls of energy, like babies again. Floating through the universe.
Makes you think about evolution, where we've come from, where we'll go.
We were apes, some of the apes got clever and the others began to copy the clever ones. We developed tools, homes, farming, sewage, transportation.
The question that always remains is why.
He did a load of brilliant films. And so different!
Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr Strangelove, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, and Barry Lyndon are his best in my mind. I thought in Eyes Wide Shut he'd lost the plot apart from the music. But at his best in those films there was nothing to touch him!