LUNCH WITH BOOKS: Wheeling Film Society Conversation - "2001: A Space Odyssey"

April 24, 2018
12:00pm - 12:00pm

Screening: 2001: A Space Odyssey
(Stanley Kubrick, 1968) - 149 mins.
April 20 - Towngate at 7:30

Conversation: 
April 24 - Library at Noon

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The Wheeling Film Society exists to provide the opportunity to see cinema classics as they were intended, on the big screen.  There will never be a more apt choice for this series than Kubrick’s mind-blowing epic, with its Homeric allusions and spectacular special effects one year before the first human being set foot on the moon.  Nor will the Film Society ever choose a film that so clearly requires conversation!  With its long, “pure-cinema” passages of bravura filmmaking, its elliptical narrative stretching from “the dawn of man” into a future in which interplanetary travel is a given, and its strange, other-worldly epilogue, 2001 is a cultural enigma which nonetheless still speaks profoundly to a world always racing to keep up with the moral implications of its latest technology. Both Friday screening and Tuesday conversation hosted by John Whitehead.

Screenings and conversations

Wheeling Film Society screenings take place on Fridays at 7:30 pm at Oglebay Institute's Towngate Theatre, 2118 Market St.

Wheeling Film Society conversations take place the following Tuesday at noon at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library, 52 16th St.

All programs – screenings and conversations – are free of admission charge. Attend as many or as few programs as your schedule allows. All are welcome, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Parental Guidance is recommended for all screenings and conversations.

John Whitehead, professor of film studies at Wheeling Jesuit University and author of Appraising The Graduate: The Mike Nichols Classic and Its Impact in Hollywood (2011) and Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation (2014), serves as host for the screenings and conversations.