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Stanley Kubrick would have turned 82 yesterday if he’d lived. He’d still be directing, of course, but considering that the periods between his films became longer and longer the older he got, he probably would have made only one more film after Eyes Wide Shut, and he’d still be cutting it now. His relationship with Warner Bros. wouldn’t be the same, needless to add. He probably would have jumped ship, now that I’m thinking it through, and gone over to Fox Searchlight.
are we really sure Kurbick is dead? this could just be his way of getting people to quit hounding him.
The Illuminati killed Kubrick for exposing them in “Eyes Wide Shut.”
I miss Shelley Duvall, what a singular film presence. Her work in Altman’s 3 Women is nothing short of extraordinary…
Spamming a Kubrick thread should be a shooting offence.
Spamming a Kubrick thread should be a shooting offence.
Re: Eyes Wide Shut, I have to say I like it more and more each time I see it. Kubrick’s films all have that mysterious, elusive quality that ensures you want to go back and see them again and again…
I’m about halfway through EYES WIDE SHUT, watching the Blu-ray (and thus the uncensored version) for the first time, and I think it’s crazy to call this a lesser Kubrick (although you can of course call it an unfinished Kubrick). It’s really quite rich, and even if that means rich like a trifle, it’s a hell of a trifle. (My only false note so far is the mannered way that Cruise and Kidman play stoned; further, I understand that the movie’s dialogue traffics in banalities and platitudes, but that scene could nevertheless have also used some defter phrasing.)
Sean, I couldn’t agree more that it’s crazy to call EWS a “lesser” Kubrick. I too re-watched it recently on Blu-ray and it works magic on repeat viewings. I loved it when I first saw it in theaters, but, like all of Kubrick’s films, it just gets better with age. The only thing that I wasn’t crazy about the first time, and even now, is Kidman’s final line. Nothing terribly bad about it, but it just doesn’t feel right to me. Otherwise, the film is superb. The cinematography and the editing rhythm are exquisite and I still think that the whole orgy middle (starting with that weird chant in the organ room) is one of the trippiest, genuinely unsettling sequences even shot. As far as the seemingly stilted dialogue is concerned, I tend to agree with some fans (including Scorsese) that the whole film is a dream and not reality. It works as reality too I think, but the dream idea makes sense to me. And Sydney Pollack’s performance is one of his best (he really should gotten a supporting Oscar nom for this) and the scenes with the costume store keeper are flat-out hilarious. This was Kubrick in top form, even if he may have not been 100% finished with the film when he died. God I miss him.
Party animals why? Is it because Kidman starts attacking Cruise once she gets high? While I do agree that most pot smokers tend to get mellow and are not known for becoming belligerent, I have been around several women who, once they got high, would become paranoid as hell and, as a result of said paranoia, confrontational. So, Kidman going after Cruise out of the clear blue like that is fairly plausible, considering that she may have been harboring all those feelings for many years.
The hell? There was a comment from party animals about the film having the worst pot smoking scene of all time (which is what I responded to) and now it’s gone.
lapshin, I’m certainly jake with the idea that it’s all a dream (why would Pollock and the costumier* have the same wall of yellow fairy lights?), but no matter how you slice it that scene has to play in front of an audience and, I dunno, I’d just like a rewrite. It’s pivotal — her spilling the fantasy that will send him on his fantasia — and I’d like a little more swerve.
* Also, “costumier” is an anagram of “Tom Cruise.” THAT SHIT BE DEEP.
Michael Herr’s analysis of Eyes Wide Shut, in his excellent book ‘Kubrick’, is fascinating and well worth a read.
Re: Eyes Wide Shut, I have to say I like it more and more each time I see it. Kubrick’s films all have that mysterious, elusive quality that ensures you want to go back and see them again and again…
party animals has been banned, and most of his posts have been deleted.
Michael Herr’s analysis of Eyes Wide Shut, in his excellent book ‘Kubrick’, is fascinating and well worth a read.
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