Eyes Wide Shut (2000, VHS)

Last night in the dark confines of my living room I turned on the last film directed by the great Stanley Kubrick. Mr. Kubrick made so many other fine films such as 2001 Space Odyssey that I wonder why he tried to make the 20001 Sexual Odyssey on his way out. The film stars the sexy Nicole Kidman. You know the way things will be progressing from the first clip of her stripping off her clothes. One question why is it we see Nicole Kidman in several nude scenes and yet Tom cruise is never seen in full frontal nudity? Doesn t want to shatter his image I suppose, or lack of one. (Little male...

I remember when the whispers began about Eyes Wide Shut, a supposedly incredibly erotic and sensual dramatic film staring the husband and wife team of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Rumors were ripe that despite being married, there was no chemistry between the two, that they had to be coached through the scenes of the movie that called for intimacy, and some modicum of passionate discourse between them. Not too long after the move hit the box office, the power couple did split citing career and scheduling conflicts as the reason. Rumors aside, Eyes Wide Shut in which the two did seem to have..

(Please note: this review was mostly written in 1999, though never before submitted to epinions. I've made a few changes and revisions, but a good deal of it comes from over three years ago (i.e. mention of Kubrick's 'recent' passing, etc.) Try not to hold it against me.) For over two years now we've been hearing all about Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Rumors, mostly untrue, have abounded: Tom and Nicole are playing sex therapists, Tom shoots heroin and dons a dress, it's all one big group sex-fest. And wise man that he was, Kubrick let them talk. And now, sadly, Kubrick has passed on,...

Throughout the history of films, every filmmaker cites another filmmaker as an influential force in cinema. Whether its Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Elia Kazan, and George Cukor to more recent big-time directors like Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Quentin Tarantino. Then, there's one director many filmmakers in the past 30 years have cited as a seminal figure in film and has been imitated one way or another than anyone in film. Many consider him the ultimate auteur director while he has reputation of being a control freak, perfectionist, recluse, and all sorts of things which some of.