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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This is exciting. Keir’s films are slowly coming out on Blu Ray. This time it’s BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING. The extras are a bit thin, but the real bummer is there’s an audio commentary that Keir is not on. I loved his and Gary Lockwood’s (Frank Poole) on 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Too bad they couldn’t get him for this one. Read on.
Blu-ray Release: Bunny Lake is Missing
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Blu-ray Release Date: Nov. 11, 2014
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time
The mystery-thriller movie Bunny Lake is Missing (1965) offers viewers director Otto Preminger’s (Skidoo) dark view of a London less swinging than it is sinister.
Bunny Lake is Missing movie scene
Carol Lynley in Bunny Lake is Missing
Bunny’s script by John and Penelope Mortimer presents a dodgy kind of thriller, in which the central damsel in distress (Carol Lynley, Harlow)—a mother who claims that her child has been snatched from school—may be mad, joining the ranks of eccentrics who surround her.
The film also stars Keir Dullea (2001: A Space Odyssey) as the heroine’s devoted brother, and Laurence Olivier (Richard III) as a steady-on police inspector, giving one of the more sneakily larcenous performances of his illustrious career. The whole movie is wrapped in a seductive score by Paul Glass, available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track.
This Twilight Time is the Blu-ray debut of Bunny Lake is Missing and contains the following special features:
• Isolated score track
• Audio commentary with film historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo, and Nick Redman
• Original theatrical trailers
• Liner notes by Julie Kirgo
As supplier Twilight Time prints up only 3,000 copies of each title, the time to order your Blu-ray discs directly from distributor Screen Archives is NOW!
This is so incredible. A new American Film Institute trailer for 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Lots of Keir, HAL, Poole and the rest. Love the title cards. Enjoy.
This film sort of slipped in under the wire, though I know all us Keir Dullea fans knew of it. SPACE STATION 76 is a farcical look at the space opera. It pulls from various sources including most of the science fiction films and television series of the era including my favourite show Space: 1999, Buck Rogers, Star Wars, and likely even Keir’s films 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and 2010: ODYSSEY TWO where he played the part of Commander Dave Bowman. Here Keir’s part is largely a cameo playing Liv Tyler’s father, Mr. Marlowe. His scene comes about forty minutes into the film where he’s only seen on a small monitor attached to a contemporary touch-tone phone. It’s really kind of funny. And the part that gets me is his appearance is reminiscent of his first scene in the Peter Hyams aforementioned film 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT. Yeah, I know I called it Odyssey Two, but that’s the title I like to call it by. Below is a side-by-side comparison of Keir then and now.
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.
Actors from a Kubrick classic offer details of personal space
Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood visited Australia to discuss their roles in one of the most iconic films of all time, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
There are many distinctive elements to Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey – from extraordinary visual effects to challenging themes, from brilliant production design to inventive use of music. One of its most distinctive details is the soft, deceptively calm voice of HAL, the super computer, who suddenly goes rogue during the space mission that takes up the second half of the film.
Yet it’s not a voice the people making the movie ever heard on set. Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, both 77, played the two astronauts, Dave Bowman and Frank Poole, whose encounters with HAL are part of cinema history. But Kubrick hadn’t found the voice he wanted for HAL, they recall, so during production various people delivered HAL’s dialogue.
Dullea – whose character hears that famous, ominous line ”I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave” – often found himself talking to the first assistant director, Derek Cracknell, whose Cockney accent he’s quick to imitate. ”It was like working with Michael Caine,” he says. ”In my case,” says Lockwood, ”Stanley played HAL with me a couple of times.”
At first, Kubrick thought of using a female voice, and calling the computer Athena. Then he was going to cast American actor Martin Balsam, but felt he sounded too New York. Nigel Davenport was on set for a week, Dullea says, before Kubrick decided he was too English.
It wasn’t until post-production that Kubrick settled on Canadian actor Douglas Rain.
Dullea and Lockwood are in Melbourne this week to do a Q&A session after a screening of a 70mm print at the Astor Theatre on Friday, and to appear at Supanova pop culture expo at the Showgrounds at the weekend.
They are happy to talk about the tiniest detail of 2001, to reflect on what Lockwood calls ”a societal game-changer”, and to talk about a director who was open to anything and everything. And there are new things for them to learn about the film after all this time.
Dullea mentions the cut between the end of the first sequence and the beginning of the second, in which a bone tossed into the air by a murderous ape ”morphs into a space vehicle. That wasn’t just any space vehicle,” he says. ”I’ve only recently discovered that it is a nuclear weapon in constant orbit around the Earth.” There is more and more to uncover, both men say, every time a new generation comes to the movie. And they’re always happy when they know people are seeing it on the big screen, as Kubrick intended.
