JUNE 15-17

With each passing year, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s visionary masterpiece of 1968, seems ever and eternally more like one of cinema’s greatest works. Has any other mainstream narrative feature — save for Terrence Malick’s recent The Tree of Life — tackled the great cosmological questions and the mysteries of existence with more quantum-leap ambition, audacity, and sheer virtuosity? Both films, as it happens, employ the extraordinary talents of the renowned special effects wizard Douglas Trumbull. Together, they make for one mind-blowing Big Bang of a double bill ...