Welcome to ODYSSEY ~ KEIR DULLEA ONLINE @keirdullea.org a site dedicated to the career of actor Keir Dullea. Best known for his role as Commander Dave Bowman in Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. In a career that has spanned five decades, Keir has worked in film and television including Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Castle, Damages, The Hoodlum Priest, Bunny Lake Is Missing, The Fox, Paperback Hero, David & Lisa, Madame X, Isn't It Delicious, and the sequel to 2001, 2010: Odyssey Two. Keir's favourite medium is the stage where he's starred in such projects as the original production of Butterflies Are Free, On Golden Pond, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, Doubles, Dr. Cook's Garden, I Never Sang for My Father, The Shawshank Redemption, Tales from Hollywood, The Cherry Orchard and many other workshop productions.
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Yep, as the title says. Keir and Gary are going to be making an appearance on behalf of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Where? At the Toronto International Film Festival. Keir and Gary will introduce the film and host a Q&A afterwards. I’m not sure of the venue, yet, but when I finally find out I’ll either edit this post or make a new one if this one has moved down. I do know the date is 01 November, 2014 at 2:00 PM. Again, not sure of the location…but I know it’s somewhere in the big T.O. That’s Toronto for those not initiated with the Canadian sensibility. Apparently this is part of a week long celebration at TIFF Cinematheque to honour the film and its amazing director, Stanley Kubrick. I’ll keep you posted as the event comes up. I won’t be able to attend, unfortunately my personal life sort of precludes that. Here’s some of the info.
2001: A Space Odyssey introduced by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood
2001: A Space Odyssey
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
(PG)
Part of 2001: A Space Odyssey introduced by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood
One of the most revered films of all time, Stanley Kubrick’s science-fiction masterpiece about a doomed intergalactic mission is still “the ultimate trip.”
“The ultimate trip,” Kubrick’s science-fiction masterpiece has survived innumerable parodies, references and rip-offs with its awe-inspiring power intact. Tracing a cosmic mystery from the dawn of mankind to the farthest reaches of time and space, 2001 chronicles an intergalactic mission to find the origin of a mysterious black monolith discovered by American astronauts on the moon — a mission complicated when the ship’s renegade computer HAL 9000 decides that its human cargo is inadequate to carry out such an important task. When they realize that HAL is turning on them, astronauts Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) have to outwit the omniscient machine to survive. Featuring spectacular special effects by Douglas Trumbull, 2001 pointedly speculates on what it means to be human in an age dominated by technology, and what the next stage of human evolution could potentially be.
Our week-long engagement of 2001: A Space Odyssey plays in conjunction with the TIFF Cinematheque retrospective Stanley Kubrick: A Cinematic Odyssey.
Credits
Director(s): Stanley Kubrick
Rating: PG
Language: English
Year: 1968
Country: USA
Runtime: 141 minutes
Since 1957, Keir Dullea has appeared in more than 25 feature films, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, David and Lisa, Black Christmas, and Bunny Lake is Missing, in which he starred opposite Sir Laurence Olivier. He has made more than 50 guest appearances on television series ranging from Naked City and Law & Order to Damages. His Broadway credits include Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Butterflies Are Free and P.S. Your Cat is Dead. He will next be seen in the forthcoming feature Isn’t It Delicious.
Gary Lockwood is a film and television actor best known for his role as Frank Poole in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. He has appeared in such films as Tall Story opposite Jane Fonda, Splendor in the Grass with Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, It Happened at the World’s Fair opposite Elvis Presley, and Jacques Demy’s Model Shop. On television, he has guest-starred on Star Trek, MacGyver, and Murder, She Wrote.
The Toronto International Film Festival or as it’s known up here North of the border, TIFF, is in full swing and news comes that Keir’s film INFINITELY, POLAR BEAR is opening. The film stars Mark Ruffalo as Keir’s son. From the reviews I’ve heard on the radio they’ve said this film is excellent and Keir’s one scene is a heart breaker. Given my previous post I suppose it was too much to ask for Keir to attend? Likely. A girl can dream.
Gala Presentations | USA | Maya Forbes | 88 minutes
Infinitely Polar Bear
A loving husband and father struggling with manic depression (Mark Ruffalo) is forced to raise his two young daughters on his own, in this moving and inspirational drama based on writer-director Maya Forbes’ own childhood experiences.
Inspired by writer-director Maya Forbes’s own childhood, this lovingly detailed, bittersweet debut careens between laughter and anxiety as it invites us into a singular family’s chaotic home.
Raising a family isn’t easy for anyone, but the Stuarts are a little more challenged than your average parents. Cameron Stuart (Mark Ruffalo, also appearing at the Festival in Foxcatcher) has suffered a nervous breakdown and been diagnosed with manic depression, a highly stigmatized label that, in 1978 Boston, renders him virtually unemployable. Maggie Stuart (Zoe Saldana) works hard but can’t quite make ends meet. They are highly educated and completely broke. They also have two precocious young daughters to care for.
A solution presents itself, but with it come unnerving risks: Maggie accepts a scholarship to pursue her business degree in New York, which means leaving Faith and Amelia in Boston — and solely in the hands of their father. Infinitely Polar Bear chronicles the eighteen-month period in which the aggressively gregarious, always unpredictable Cameron struggles to cope with his condition and become a viable single parent to the little girls he so clearly loves.
Humour and heartbreak alike are on offer as we witness Cameron stumble in his attempts to be a good neighbour and engaged father while attending to his wildly varying moods and impulses. For every misstep, there is evidence of Cameron’s fierce love, and Ruffalo performs the remarkable feat of keeping his character utterly sympathetic even in his darkest, most irresponsible moments. We can see plenty of problems and peril in the Stuart family, but, if we look closer, we can also see their wondrous gifts.
This is just new. Keir will narrate Stories From The Sea to include Walt Whitman’s Poems and Songs. Read on.
GBS opens 69th season with new conductor; actor Keir Dullea to narrate
Phyllis A.S. Boros
Published 5:16 pm, Tuesday, September 9, 2014
New, new, new — and lots of tradition, too.
That’s the philosophy at the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, which opens its 69th season at the Klein Memorial Auditorium on Saturday, Sept. 13 — a month earlier than usual.
Its new music director/conductor Eric Jacobsen, a cellist, will kick off his concert-week public appearances on Thursday, Sept. 11, at the Pequot Library, in Fairfield, with noted area pianist Alan Murchie. The event is part of the library’s annual concert series.
Also new: The season has been expanded from five to six concerts (with Jacobsen conducting five of them). Music lovers can purchase five-concert or six-concert subscriptions (with the six-concert package including “A Folk Christmas” on Saturday, Dec. 6).
Special discounts are being offered for 20-somethings to foster the season as a date-night destination for younger audiences. It’s a “$30 Under 30” six-concert subscription for $180, featuring prime seating and full subscriber benefits.
Opening night’s “Stories from the Sea” will include “Walt Whitman, Poems and Songs,” with narration provided by stage and screen actor Keir Dullea, a Connecticut resident who has gained a large local following for his many contributions to the community arts scene. He starred in the iconic 1968 space movie, Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
The songs are all original, written by guitarist Kyle Sanna, flutist Alex Sopp, Jacobsen and his brother Colin, a renowned violinist. The four musicians make up Brooklyn Rider, a successful quartet that performs around the world, and are all members of the New York-based Knights Orchestra.
The opening-night program also will include Mendelssohn’s “Hebrides” Overture, Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” and Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances.
A music director’s first season is always a special one, said Jacobsen, who celebrated his 32nd birthday in July.
When putting the season together, Jacobsen said he planned it to be “alive with discovery and excitement, full of chance and exploration.” And the GBS also “will have the repertoire that we all know and love to re-examine,” he added.
Subscribers receive a 20 percent discount compared with individual tickets. As a bonus, subscribers will receive a free pair of tickets to any concert so that they may introduce friends or relatives to the GBS.
The six-concert season packages range from $139.20 to $283.20; five-concert packages (without the holiday event) range from $116 to $236.
pasboros@ctpost.com; Twitter: PhyllisASBoros
The Klein Memorial Auditorium, 910 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport. Saturday, Sept. 13, 8 p.m. $59-$29. Free parking. 203-576-0263, www.gbs.org.
