1. "There is a nice take on Fresh Air (the April 3rd episode with Albright)" In response to Reply # 0
He mostly touched on material that ought to be common knowledge to fans of the movie, but also gave some back history about Kubrick's personal life and the efforts of Clarke who also had a lot of input into the story.
2001 might be the first movie that made me, as pretentious as this sounds, interested in the mechanics of cinema, rather than just being a movie fan.
I saw the movie when I was like 13 or 14 one day and just thought it was overrated and boring because I was expecting Star Wars.
But I saw it a little later, maybe around 18 or 19 and realized that the pacing was a deliberate nod of the director to put the viewer in the immense, overpowering sense of silence in space and bend the sense of scale of time. At that point, I 'got' the movie and was blown away. There was another time when the movie got a re-release in theaters back in 1999 or 2000, when I actually got stoned and saw the movie, which stood out. I might have been the only one in the Castro Theatre in San Francisco watching the movie and it was quite the spectacle on the big screen.
Still one of my favorites. Hopefully, I'll make time to watch it again soon.
Nolan did an interview with Elvis Mitchell on his podcast, The Treatment, where Nolan said he re-mixed the sound from the original negative. Did you notice a difference in the clarity or the sound design during your last viewing?