Stanley Kubrick’s career-capping Eyes Wide Shut unfolds in a dreamscape vision of New York City, where doctor Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), confront the unconscious desires, jealousies, and fears threatening their marriage. A Christmastime odyssey into a surreal sexual underworld whose hidden power structures are laid frighteningly bare, the film marks the fulfillment of the director’s decades-long desire to adapt Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story) and the culmination of his obsessive interest in the relationship between institutional authority and the individual. Released in 1999, the film also serves as a fitting coda to a century of cinema, by one of its greatest visionaries—an endlessly tantalizing labyrinth whose myriad symbols, mysteries, and meanings are still being unraveled. 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration of the international version of the film, supervised and approved by director of photography Larry Smith, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features New interviews with Smith, set decorator and second-unit director Lisa Leone, and archivist Georgina Orgill Archival interview with Christiane Kubrick, director Stanley Kubrick’s wife Never Just a Dream (2019), featuring interviews with producer Jan Harlan; Katharina Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick’s daughter; and Anthony Frewin, Kubrick’s personal assistant Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick (2007) Kubrick Remembered (2014), featuring interviews with actors Todd Field and Leelee Sobieski and filmmaker Steven Spielberg Kubrick’s 1998 acceptance speech for the Directors Guild of America’s D. W. Griffith Award Press conference from 1999, featuring Harlan and actors Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman Teaser, trailer, and promos English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by author Megan Abbott and a 1999 interview with filmmaker and actor Sydney Pollack
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So this movie is full of highly sexual themes and visuals. However, there is a lot more going on beneath the surface. If you like Kubrick and want an interesting movie, I would defiantly recommend this.
I did not watch the extras.
A wild movie about Hollywood elites who throw wild, cult-like sex parties. Not really a creepy movie until you realize it's probably all based on reality. It's Kubrick, so it's a brilliantly made movie, and he died shortly after he shot it. Worth a watch just to read about the odd theories about it online after.
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