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...rest of Rachel, Rachel's small cast is fine as well as suitably anoymous in character. Jerome Moross has written a score that would be more noteworthy if the themes and orchestration weren't so similar to The Big Country, for which he also wrote music. Stewart Stern's screenplay is consonant in its intelligence with Newman's direction...
Across the U.S., a superior science-fiction movie called 2001: A Space Odyssey is playing to packed houses. An engrossing novel expanded from the movie's screenplay and a new nonfiction book called The Promise of Space are selling briskly in bookstores. Some 22,000 miles above the equator, communications satellites are relaying TV pictures and telephone calls between the continents. The movie, the books and the satellites all have something in common: they are the brainchildren of Arthur C. Clarke, a tall, springy and remarkably imaginative Englishman whose writing bridges the gap between the far reaches of science...
...Burgess is sounding again an ancient warning of his trade: that the poet's natural enemies remain varied and dangerous. The hostile forces manifest themselves as rich but tasteless patrons, pop singers, and even other poets, one of whom steals the Minotaur theme and turns it into a screenplay for Son of the Beast from Outer Space...
...selection, of course, was made long before the King assassination); with five Oscars it was the most honored film of the year. One of the weakest choices involved the year's other major race picture, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; William Rose's gummy screenplay outranked Bonnie and Clyde, La Guerre Est Finie and Two for the Road...
...longer question similar amazements and accept Kubrick's new world without question. The credibility of the special effects established, we can suspend disbelief, to use a justifiable cliche, and revel in the beauty and imagination of Kubrick/Clarke's space. And turn to the challenging substance of the excellent screenplay...