Plastic Bateman
Super Freak
I marked it down only due to how lengthy and slow it was, it was never for how it was directed. I did like the tension a lot in the spacewalk scenes, I just feel the pace should of been slightly faster.
The breathing makes it very claustrophobic.
I've got a friend who's getting into doing music for film and television, but is pretty much cinematically illiterate.
I've been showing him various classics of cinema, trying not to hit him over the head too hard at once - started off with Alien and Aliens, then Terminator and Terminator 2, then Robocop, then Blade Runner and 2001. Pretty soon I'm going to start dropping him off the deep end into Fritz Lang, Tarkovsky, etc and see if he survives the experience
Point being he found the spacewalk scene in 2001 surprisingly upsetting for exactly the reason you mentioned. He's used to modern films where there's always noise and music of some sort going on in every scene. Amazing that we've reached a point where silence is a disturbing foreign concept to people...