Celebrating the Moving Image

Notes on Playtime and 2001, the Museum’s opening double feature
by Jonathan Rosenbaum   posted Jan 13, 2011

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Mr. Rosenbaum, you must mean 4 million years B.C.E., not "4 Billion." The latter does not make scientific sense nor is it depicted in the film.
Jose G. Figueroa   posted 24.01.11

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Jacques Tati  |  Stanley Kubrick  |  Playtime  |  big-screen cinema  |  2001: A Space Odyssey

THE AUTHOR

Jonathan Rosenbaum served as film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 to 2007. His most recent book is Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

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