2001 is one of the grimmest films I have ever seen in my life...Ithink that Kubrick is someone who is too intelligent, too cynical, toopessimistic about man, or about men rather, and I think that as it turnsout, 2001 is a disaster because it is much too abstract to make itsabstract points. - Andrew Sarris, WBAI Radio....the scope of its imaginative vision of man...immerses the eye, the ear,and