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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: Blu-ray
EAN: 0883929012053
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Running Time: 159 minutes
Sales Rank: 3967
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 16, 1999
Editorial Review:
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Stanley Kubrick’s daring last film is a bracing psychosexual journey, a riveting suspense tale and a career milestone for stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Cruise plays a doctor who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage – and may ensnare him in a murder mystery – after his wife’s (Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. Graceful tracking shots, rich colors, startling images: bravura traits that make Kubrick a filmmaker for the ages are here to keep everyone’s eyes wide open.
Amazon.com essential video:
It was inevitable that Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut would be the most misunderstood film of 1999. Kubrick died four months prior to its release, and there was no end to speculation how much he would have tinkered with the picture, changed it, 'fixed' it. We'll never know. But even without the haunting enigma of the director's death--and its eerie echo/anticipation in the scene when Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) visits the deathbed of one of his patients--Eyes Wide Shut would have perplexed and polarized viewers and reviewers. After all, virtually every movie of Kubrick's post-U.S. career had; only 1964's Dr. Strangelove opened to something approaching consensus. Quite apart from the author's tinkering, Kubrick's movies themselves always seemed to change--partly because they changed us, changed the world and the ways we experienced and understood it. And we may expect Eyes Wide Shut to do the same. Unlike Kubrick himself, it has time.
So consider, as we settle in to live with this long, advisedly slow, mesmerizing film, how challenging and ambiguous its narrative strategy is. The source is an Arthur Schnitzler novella titled Traumnovelle (or 'Dream Story'), and it's a moot question how much of Eyes Wide Shut itself is dream, from the blue shadows frosting the Harfords' bedroom to the backstage replica of New York's Greenwich Village that Kubrick built in England. Its major movement is an imaginative night-journey (even the daylight parts of it) taken by a man reeling from his wife's teasing confession of fantasized infidelity, and toward the end there is a token gesture of the couple waking to reality and, perhaps, a new, chastened maturity. Yet on some level--visually, psychologically, logically--every scene shimmers with unreality. Is everything in the movie a dream? And if so, who is dreaming it at any given moment, and why?
Don't settle for easy answers. Kubrick's ultimate odyssey beckons. And now the dream is yours. --Richard T. Jameson
Amazon.com:
It was inevitable that Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut would be the most misunderstood film of 1999. Kubrick died four months prior to its release, and there was no end to speculation how much he would have tinkered with the picture, changed it, 'fixed' it. We'll never know. But even without the haunting enigma of the director's death--and its eerie echo/anticipation in the scene when Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) visits the deathbed of one of his patients--Eyes Wide Shut would have perplexed and polarized viewers and reviewers. After all, virtually every movie of Kubrick's post-U.S. career had; only 1964's Dr. Strangelove opened to something approaching consensus. Quite apart from the author's tinkering, Kubrick's movies themselves always seemed to change--partly because they changed us, changed the world and the ways we experienced and understood it. And we may expect Eyes Wide Shut to do the same. Unlike Kubrick himself, it has time.
So consider, as we settle in to live with this long, advisedly slow, mesmerizing film, how challenging and ambiguous its narrative strategy is. The source is an Arthur Schnitzler novella titled Traumnovelle (or 'Dream Story'), and it's a moot question how much of Eyes Wide Shut itself is dream, from the blue shadows frosting the Harfords' bedroom to the backstage replica of New York's Greenwich Village that Kubrick built in England. Its major movement is an imaginative night-journey (even the daylight parts of it) taken by a man reeling from his wife's teasing confession of fantasized infidelity, and toward the end there is a token gesture of the couple waking to reality and, perhaps, a new, chastened maturity. Yet on some level--visually, psychologically, logically--every scene shimmers with unreality. Is everything in the movie a dream? And if so, who is dreaming it at any given moment, and why?
Don't settle for easy answers. Kubrick's ultimate odyssey beckons. And now the dream is yours. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Illuminati secret symbolism layed out for the public to see...
This movie is highly symbolic, loaded with symbolism about and secrets used by the global elite. Which is why most people find this film somewhat puzzling. Go to http://www.kentroversypapers.net/ for details about the meanings within. Classic Kubrick. Also see a review about the highly symbolic 2001 (about secrets of Alchemy) at: http://www.jayweidner.com/kubrick.htm
Rating:  - Another Kidman Laughfest
I won't go into the plot or major themes of this film, as other reviewers have done an adequate job of it. I truly believe actors make or break a movie. As such, this film could have been very good, but suffers deplorably from a lack of quality acting. Tom Cruise is not a favorite of mine, but does a passable job as the manic
spouse of a woman who shares her thoughts of infidelity.
I found Kidman's performance (as so often is the case with this highly overrated actress) substandard, ... Read More
Rating: - Garbage. Bad acting. Dull filmography. Horrendous lighting. Kubrick's a loser.
I just watched this, and I don't know why. It was horrible. Cruise wasn't the only bad actor in this (Kidman did a good job of course), and he was BAD. The lighting is a constant red/blue warm/cold contrast that is more headache inducing than intriguing. Whoever was guiding the camera and setting shots was lackluster and just "got the job done." Kubrick, besides being a misogynistic f* with an adolescent appetite for his films' contents, really delivered nothing...and he took his time doing it.
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Rating: - Minds Wide Open
I saw this movie in a theater, when it was premiered years ago. I found it haunting, dreamlike, and outside the normal realm of moviemaking. Most people did not like the movie then and I would assume most would not like it now. Its a movie that polarizes. I recently had the chance to view it again. Mesmerizing is the best way I can describe it. It pulls you into a dreamlike world and leaves you with many unanswered questions. The most chilling, riveting scene obviously is the "party". But what really ... Read More
Rating: - 'Forever' Is A Scary Word
I have to give this movie five stars because of the lovely Nicole Kidman. But she's not the only gorgeous girl in the movie and there are none of those acursed artificial breast implants either. Stanley Kubrick really gave us something to cherish as his final work.
The movie starts out (and remains) strange and it has a sort of ghost like quality which is set around Christmas time. It touches on both the positive and negative aspects of sexually related issues and contains a lot of symbolism. ... Read More
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