The Macao International Film Festival and Awards (Iffam) features the Crossfire strand where six heavyweight directors choose a classic genre film to play at the festival. India’s Shekhar Kapur (“Bandit Queen,” “Elizabeth”) chose Stanley Kubrick’s seminal sci-fi film “2001: A Space Odyssey” from 1968.
“I believe cinema is more poetry than prose and my response to cinema now, especially that which is coming out of Hollywood is that it is too dominated by completely overwritten scripts,” says Kapur.
“’2001’ has beautiful things in it, but what it does is it has spaces in the narrative and every time you watch it, you are filling the spaces in the narrative with your own imagination. So when I first watched it, I couldn’t make head or tail of it, I watched it as a kid. But it never left me, because those spaces never got filled. The imagery and the suggestions in the film were so powerful at that...
“I believe cinema is more poetry than prose and my response to cinema now, especially that which is coming out of Hollywood is that it is too dominated by completely overwritten scripts,” says Kapur.
“’2001’ has beautiful things in it, but what it does is it has spaces in the narrative and every time you watch it, you are filling the spaces in the narrative with your own imagination. So when I first watched it, I couldn’t make head or tail of it, I watched it as a kid. But it never left me, because those spaces never got filled. The imagery and the suggestions in the film were so powerful at that...
- 12/7/2017
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety - Film News
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