but 'Eyes Wide Shut (1999)' seems to be an exercise in sheer perfectionism. Having said that, if director Stanley Kubrick had survived to see its release, I'm almost certain he would have still found something to pick out as being not exactly what he wanted it to be. We are all our...
I did part one. And I laid out the foundation for what I believe will be the most comprehensive analysis of the occult symbolism in Eyes Wide Shut ever in the history of histories. And we’re going to continue that journey. In part one, I...
Other articles where Eyes Wide Shut is discussed: Stanley Kubrick: Last films: …his attention to another project, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which would be his final film, released only a few months after his death. Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novell
I had already written in my analysis onEyes Wide Shutthat, knowing how Kubrick works things, I felt there was something extra going on in that Somerton cab scene when Bill tore the money in half, and that there was perhaps a kind of half-way point being suggested. Not that it takes mu...
“Eyes Wide Shut” was Stanley Kubrick’s final film. Hedied four months beforeits release. It took its stars — Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Hollywood’s most famous couple — off the market for nearly two years, as what was supposed to be a six...
After three years of false rumors, and a maddening mix of secretiveness and hype, Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" is here. The 13th and last film of the legendary director, who died with shocking suddenness in March days after making the final cut, turns out to be his most personal...
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise had already been married for several years when they began playing a wife and husband in 'Eyes Wide Shut.' Twenty-five years after the release of the polarizing film,Eyes Wide Shut,Nicole Kidmanis revealing just how much her real-life marriage to...
Now, jump to shot 540 inEyes Wide Shut. This is the shot where Bill, in Victor's billiard/library room, removes from his pocket a torn newspaper article about the girl's death and unfolds it. As we will find later, this relates to shot 270 in which Bill has his exchange with the ...
“Eyes Wide Shut”. All had depictions of masks as literal and symbolic manifestations within the movie that were key elements in the plot. What might be the significance of the mask symbolism to those within Scientology, given what we know about its inherent duplicity and ability to hide ...
“Dream Story”, and is best described as an occult based demonic sexual fantasy revolving around the power and use of masks in satanic rituals—thatStanley Kubrickbought the rights to and turned into the final movie he ever made calledEyes Wide Shut—a movieKubrickmade, then died six days ...