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Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut
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The just-released DVD of Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” is the uncensored European version, without all the blurring in the orgy scene. The disc says viewers can pick between versions, but it just plays the pure European version. In widescreen HD DVD, the movie is handsome but not a stunner.
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From his first feature film, Fear and Desire (1953), to his final, posthumously released Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Stanley Kubrick excelled at probing the dark corners of human consciousness. In doing so, he adapted such popular novels as The Killing, Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, and The Shining and selected a wide variety of genres for his films -- black comedy (Dr. Strangelove), science fiction (2001: A Space Odyssey), and war (Paths of Glory and Full Metal Jacket). Because he was peerless in unveiling the intimate mysteries of human nature, no new film by Kubrick ever failed to spark debate or to be deeply pondered.
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There is a peculiar rumor circulating that Stanley Kubrick expired while clutching a fax from a top Warner Bros. executive congratulating him on his recently screened Eyes Wide Shut. That this was a favorable missive is what makes the report so mordant, so mysterious. Caustic rumors about Kubrick are at the heart of his legacy--especially his modern legacy, since his films of the last two decades have come so many years apart and have been so not-worth-the-wait. His name has become an adjective for overcontrol. It is said that Kubrick sent his scripts--or pages thereof--around in plastic bags, to be read by the intended recipient and then returned via hovering messengers.
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'An intimate portrait of the genius who transformed the art of filmmaking' Stanley Kubrick's career spanned Paths of Glory, Lolita. Dr Strangelove 2001. A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange. Barry Lyncon. The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. In this book, Michael Herr, best known for his brilliant and seminal books Dispatches and Walter Winchell, who worked with Kubrick on Full Metal Jacket and co-wrote the screenplay, pays due homage and tribute to his long-time friend, remembering the humour, the cleanly burning intelligence and the outrageous sanity of a twentieth century master.
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One of the most esteemed filmmakers of all time, Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was ... one of the most enigmatic. He broke into the film scene at the age of 26 with the ambitious, independently produced Killer's Kiss and within a few years was working with the likes of Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, and Peter Sellers on such seminal films as Lolita and Spartacus. Having gained the support of the actors, producers, and movie studios with his early efforts, Kubrick garnered the creative control he needed to produce uncompromising masterpieces such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange, and Barry Lyndon. Polishing off 1999`s Eyes Wide Shut just before his untimely death, Kubrick left behind a puzzling and positively brilliant body of work.
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Kubrick's final film remains one of his most controversial projects. In Eyes Wide Shut, Tom Cruise plays Dr. Bill Harford, a physician living in Manhattan with his pretty wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman). They're a happily married couple who enjoy their life together and who both enjoy raising their daughter together. One night a friend of Bill's, Dr. Ziegler (Sydney Pollack), invites them to a party where, after a European man hits on his wife, Bill disappears to treat Ziegler's girlfriend, Mandy (Julienne Davis), who has overdosed in another room. The next night the two smoke pot and start to talk. As it turns out, Alice admits to having considered infidelity, she's thought about cheating on Bill with a man she met only briefly during vacation last year - in fact she didn't just think about it, she seriously considered it. Obviously Bill is rather distraught over this though Alice berates him for his dishonesty over this, knowing that at one point he must have at least thought about the prospect himself.
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