CinemaGrids: 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY/2010 THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT

It’s tough to follow Stanley Kubrick, and it’s even tougher to follow his masterpiece – the groundbreaking, genre-shifting, immortal 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. But Peter Hyams did just that with 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT, based on Arthur C. Clarke’s literary sequel to the original source material. Hyams realized, wisely, that the trick here wasn’t to break so much new ground as much as it was to continue the aesthetics and atmosphere of Kubrick’s triumph. To that end, there are several visual nods to the first film in the second, the most masterful of which are collected here, next to their inspirations.