It follows the crew of the deteriorating starship Dark Star, twenty years into their mission to destroy unstable planets that might threaten future colonization of other planets. We'll have books on hand and the author will do a signing after the talk. Dark Star is a 1974 American science fiction comedy film directed and produced by John Carpenter and co-written with Dan OBannon. This iconic film was a touchstone for a generation, inspiring not only filmmakers and the great films in the science fiction genre that followed 2001, but inspiring many to go into careers involved in the exploration of space. Michael Benson’s Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Benson will be bringing along three people who worked with Kubrick on the movie, Bruce Logan (visual effects artist), Con Pederson (visual effects supervisor), amd Dan Richter (the actor who played 'Moonwatcher' and choreographed the famous opening scenes of the movie). The book goes from the film’s initial conception to each stage of its execution, and finally to its initially disastrous but. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, which provides a 360-degree view of this extraodrinary work, tracking the film from Kubrick and Clarke's first meeting in New York in 1964 through its UK production. Not surprisingly, the anniversary has spawned new books on Kubrick, the prize of the lot being Michael Benson’s Space Odyssey, the most meticulously detailed chronicle of the film’s production anyone has written.

Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the release of what is widely considered by critics and directors to be one of the greatest films every made, author Michael Benson (who has published several art books featuring NASA space images) will present an illustrated talk about his highly acclaimed new book Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C.

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