Welcome to the future. I don’t know what to say other than hopefully it will be less
terrible, shitty and infuriating than the recent past and present. I completely understand if you find yourself immobilized by last night, or last year for that matter. But assuming you aren’t frozen in terror or hungover malaise, the Arcata Theatre Lounge is playing the ultimate film about the past and the future. Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey remains one of the most visually stunning and conceptually brilliant films about space travel, evolution, what it means to be human and the dangers of A.I. Kubrick (probably) had no way of knowing this in 1968 but, as it has been pointed out, our cell phones now resemble the black monoliths, outfitted with an unblinking eye like that of the nefarious HAL 9000. Not an ideal combo, but I am happy to face such a degradation if we end up with a world-changing Starchild on the backend of the deal. Anywho, doors open at 6 p.m., the show is at 7 p.m., there’s a raffle in between and tickets are $6, $10 if you care for a poster.
This article appears in Top 10 Stories of 2024.