2001: A Space Odyssey

Sight and Sound's 'Top 100 Greatest Films of all time' is the critics poll the magazine takes each decade with more than 1,600 critics, to test the temperature of what is considered a classic!

This year, we have been screening one of the choices from the poll each month, as part of our Sunday Classics series. At the screenings, we invited you to join the conversation and vote for YOUR own classic, for us to screen at the end of 2024 as part of our very own Audience Poll! 

So that's why 2001: A Space Odyssey is now BACK for you to see again on the big screen! We're showing it again as you voted it the winner of our audience poll!

One of the most enigmatic films of all time, 2001: A Space Odyssey brought together two of the most prolific creative minds ever to have collaborated on a work of fiction, Stanley Kubrick and 'Prophet of the space age', writer Arthur C. Clarke. The result is one of the most enduring films of all time, recently voted 6th best film of all time in the Sight and Sound critics poll. 

The legacy of this masterwork can't be overstated, referenced in everything from The Simpsons to WALL-E - heck, even Zoolander! From David Bowie's Space Oddity to Greta Gerwig's Barbie, this film is your favourite artists favourite work of art.

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