Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film was a genre masterpiece then, and it’s a genre masterpiece today – and, most likely, will remain a genre masterpiece tomorrow. The movie seems to be almost nothing but extended set pieces, each iconic movie sequence leading to another. Monoliths. Moon shuttles. Malevolent supercomputers. Star childs. Trips to the end of space and time. And speaking of trips – watch again, as paranoid shipboard computer HAL uses his photographic red “eye” lens to eavesdrop on his ship’s human astronauts by reading their lips. It’s the same series of shots replicated in a recent Mad Men, as Michael Ginsberg went crazy while watching Lou Avery and Jim Cutler having a private conversation in the new computer room.