Eyes Wide Shut [Special Edition] [2 Discs]

Overview

Stanley Kubrick directed this tale of jealousy and sexual obsession, working with screenwriter Frederic Raphael (Darling) on an adaptation from Arthur Schnitzler's Rhapsody: A Dream Novel (Simon and Schuster, 1927), aka Dream Story (reprinted by Sun & Moon in 1990). Filmed at the reopened Elstree Studios and London locations (the Loughborough Hotel, Madame Jo-Jo's strip club). The story involves two married New York psychiatrists (Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman) who engage in separate affairs with patients (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sydney Pollack), who are also married. Shortly after filming began, Kidman commented, "Nobody's had a nervous breakdown yet. We're five weeks into the shoot, and Stanley has been incredibly generous with us. He's not emotionally abusive or anything. He deals with Tom and me separately -- and when you see the film you'll understand why. When people see the film, they're going to have a field day analyzing our relationship." Kubrick brought in Dr. Clive Froggart as an advisor on the preparation and handling of heroin injections. Froggart is a clinical psychiatrist who gave treatment to drug addicts but then became addicted himself. Some have recalled an incident in the '60s when Kubrick and Terry Southern were watching porn movies, and Kubrick said to Southern, "Wouldn't it be interesting if an artist were to do this with beautiful, first-rate actors and good equipment?"

Product Details

Release Date:	01/22/2008
UPC:	0883929011650
Original Release:	1999
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:39:00

Special Features

Channel Four documentary the Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut; Lost Kubrick: the Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick; Interview gallery featuring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Steven Spielberg; Kubrick's 1998 Director's Guild of America D.W. Griffith Award acceptance speech ; Theatrical trailer; TV spots

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Tom Cruise	Dr. William Harford
Nicole Kidman	Alice Harford
Sydney Pollack	Victor Ziegler
Marie Richardson	Marion
Todd Field	Nick
Vinessa Shaw	Domino
Fay Masterson	Sally
Thomas Gibson	Carl
Madison Eginton	Helena
Louise Taylor	Gayle,Actor
Stewart Thorndike	Nuala
Julienne Davis	Mandy
Jackie Sawiris	Roz
Leslie Lowe	Illona
Alan Cumming	Desk Clerk
Leelee Sobieski	Milich's Daughter
Carmela Marner	Waitress
Peter Benson	Bandleader
Lisa Leone	Actor
Sam Douglas	Cab Driver
Sky du Mont	Sandor Szavost
Phil Davies	Actor
Rade Serbedzija	Milich
Kevin Connealy	Lou Nathanson
Mariana Hewett	Rosa
Gavin Parry	Rowdy College Kid
Chris Pare	Rowdy College Kid
Adam Lias	Rowdy College Kid
Jocelyn Pook	Composer
Kyle Whitcombe	Rowdy College Kid
Gary Goba	Naval Officer
Florian Windorfer	Maître D' - Café Sonata
Gavin Perry	Rowdy College Kid #2
Michael Doven	Actor
Eiji Kusuhara	Japanese Man #2
Randall Paul	Actor
Angus MacInnes	Actor
Leon Vitali	Actor
Treva Etienne	Morgue Orderly
Colin Angus	Masked Party Goer
Karla Ashley	Masked Party Goer
Kathryn Charman	Masked Party Goer
James Demaria	Masked Party Goer
Anthony Desergio	Masked Party Goer
Janie Dickens	Masked Party Goer
Cindy Dolenc	Actor
Laura Fallace	Masked Party Goer
Clark Hayes	Actor
Vanessa Fenton	Masked Party Goer
Georgina Finch	Masked Party Goer
Peter Godwin	Masked Party Goer
Joanna Heath	Masked Party Goer
Lee Henshaw	Masked Party Goer
Ateeka Poole	Masked Party Goer
Adam Pudney	Masked Party Goer
Dan Rollman	Rowdy College Kid
Sharon Quinn	Masked Party Goer
Ben De Sausmarcz	Masked Party Goer
Emma Lou Sharratt	Masked Party Goer
Paul Spelling	Masked Party Goer
Christian Clarke	Rowdy College Kid
Matthew Thompson	Masked Party Goer
Dan Travers	Masked Party Goer
Russell Trigg	Masked Party Goer
Kate Whalin	Masked Party Goer
Togo Igawa	Japanese Man #1
Jackie Sawris	Actor
Abigail Good	Masked Party Principal/Mysterious Woman
Brian W. Cook	Tall Butler
Gyorgy Ligeti	Composer
Franz Liszt	Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich	Composer

Technical Credits

Stanley Kubrick

Frederic Raphael

Arthur Schnitzler

Stanley Kubrick	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Denise Chamian	Casting
Jan Harlan	Executive Producer,Producer
Leon Vitali	Casting
Frederic Raphael	Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Arthur Schnitzler	Screenwriter
Paddy Eason	Special Effects
Michael A. Carter	Sound Effects
Paul Conway	Sound Effects
Iain Eyre	Sound Effects
Brian W. Cook	Producer
Charles Staffell	Special Effects
Tony Belletier	Sound Effects
Anthony Cleal	Sound Effects
Paul Conway	Sound Editor
Edward Tise	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Stanley Kubrick's first film in more than a decade, Eyes Wide Shut had already attracted attention before Kubrick's death several months prior to its release sent the hype into overdrive. As the closely guarded production dragged on for a year and a half, rumors swirled over cast departures and what Kubrick was doing with Hollywood's premier young married couple. Kubrick's death several days after screening a "final cut" spurred speculation over whether Eyes Wide Shut was truly in the form the notoriously particular filmmaker wanted, a controversy compounded by the studio's decision to digitally alter the orgy scene for an R rating. Finally opening after numerous press tributes and the digitalia brouhaha, Eyes Wide Shut divided critics over whether it was an artistically challenging exploration of marital fidelity and boredom, or a hopelessly dated Freudian fever dream. Regardless of questions about the transposition of the 1920s Viennese milieu in Arthur Schnitzler's Traumnovelle to 1990s Manhattan, Kubrick's command of his craft was still formidable. The grainy, richly colored cinematography, Steadicam shots, and ornate production design sleekly evoked the waking dream world of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's sexual searchers. Though it fell off at the box office and was shut out of year-end awards, Eyes Wide Shut's defenders suggested that it may still find a place in the Kubrick legacy.