Filmworker, which opens in limited release on Friday, covers the full arc of their relationship and illustrates how Vitali still remains a keeper of Kubrick’s artistic legacy.Įven though Nolan is presenting the Cannes screening of 2001, Vitali worked on color-timing the 70 mm print, a function he frequently performed when his mentor was still alive. In the wake of that film, Vitali largely abandoned acting in favor of being Kubrick’s right-hand man behind the camera. Once a rising star in the British film industry, the 69-year-old actor began a nearly 25-year apprenticeship with the 2001 director when he was cast in 1975’s Barry Lyndon.
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It’s worth nothing that few people enjoy the kind of access to material from Kubrick’s archive than Vitali does. “There’s a place in London where all the city’s refuse is taken, and I remember taking van loads of outtakes and stuff that was never used and burning them, because he did not want any of his old material.” “Once he released a movie, that was it,” longtime Kubrick colleague - and subject of Tony Zierra’s new documentary Filmworker - Leon Vitali reveals to Yahoo Entertainment. And unlike some filmmakers, he wasn’t concerned when it came to the film that ended up on the cutting-room floor. The baffled reaction of those first moviegoers, as well as the studio, sent Kubrick back to the editing room to excise 17 minutes of footage. When 2001 first played for premiere audiences that April, the film was roughly 20 minutes longer than the one that subsequently went into wide release. Still, there’s one part of the 1968 viewing experience that Nolan can’t duplicate for modern audiences.
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Hence, the 70 mm print that will play at Cannes - followed by a theatrical rollout on May 18 - is largely free of any digital restoration, instead produced by printing elements from the original camera negative. Like Kubrick, who passed away in 1999, Nolan is a vocal proponent for the supremacy of the analog cinematic experience, and intends for 2018 audiences to watch 2001 in the same way their 1968 predecessors did. On Saturday, the Cannes Film Festival will travel back to the future when Christopher Nolan presents a 50th anniversary screening of Stanley Kubrick‘s sci-fi classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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