Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

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The Rewatchables' awards

From ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin (2023-08-15):

Most rewatchable scene

  1. pick Alice's dance with the Hungarian, Sandor, at the first party
    “That's like a few of the sexiest minutes in movie history.”
    unknown · 0:38:37
  2. pick Alice confronts Bill in the bedroom and tells him about the naval officer (the Kidman fight)
    “Stone Kidman confronting Cruz.”
    unknown · 0:37:58
  3. floated Bill's night out in New York, from Marion to Domino to Nick
    “Well, I like just the entire sequence of Bill's night out from Marion to Domino to Nick.”
    unknown · 0:47:41
  4. floated Bill at the costume shop with Milich and the Japanese men
    “And then Millich, to get the cloak. And the Millich scene is your like, what the fuck? That's an upset.”
    unknown · 0:50:29
  5. floated Bill being followed on the streets of New York
    “I really like the scene when Cruz gets followed on the streets of New York.”
    unknown · 0:52:15
  6. floated Sydney Pollock's pool table scene with Bill
    “The, uh, your favorite scene, the Sydney Pollock pool table.”
    unknown · 0:52:32
  7. floated The last scene, Bill and Alice talking in the store
    “I like the last scene.”
    unknown · 0:53:03
  8. floated Alice telling Bill about her dream
    “What are we skipping Alice telling Bill about her dream?”
    unknown · 0:53:09
  9. floated The Fidelio party
    “I really like the party.”
    unknown · 0:56:25

Ebert Review · The hosts read Roger Ebert's review of the film.

  1. pick Eyes Wide Shut: Ebert gave it 3.5 stars; the reader thinks he mailed it in.
    “Um, Roger Ebert 3.5 stars.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:35:21

Saul Rubinek Award · The most over-the-top performance in the film.

  1. nominee Sky Dumont as Sandor Szavost: Written down for the award, then rescinded.
    “The Saul Rubinick, they knew award. The Hungarian guy who hits on Alice at the 1st party I had written down, but I'll rescind that one.”
    unknown · 1:11:07

Best That Guy (Joey Pants Award) · The best 'that guy' role in the film.

  1. winner Rade Šerbedžija as Milich: The costume shop owner; the speaker can't recall the actor's name.
    “It has to be Lee Sobieski's dad, right?”
    unknown · 1:10:50
  2. winner Rade Šerbedžija as Milich
    “I also had Lily Sobieski's dad for this one, too, because he's really feeling it.”
    unknown · 1:11:17
  3. nominee Todd Field as Nick Nightingale: Dismissed because he stops acting and goes on to direct.
    “No, Todd Field?”
    unknown · 1:10:59

Dion Waiters Award · A small role with a big impact.

  1. winner Mandy as Mandy
    “I'm gonna go Mandy for this one.”
    unknown · 1:11:23
  2. winner Alan Cumming as the hotel desk clerk
    “You could say, Mandy, I mean, I want to throw out Alan Cumming. Has to be Alan Cumming.”
    unknown · 1:11:26

What Aged the Best · What about the film holds up best today.

  1. pick The Eyes Wide Shut party as a running joke
    “The running joke about the eyes wide shut party.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:56:31
  2. pick Nicole Kidman: Her look on screen in the late 1990s.
    “19 late 1990s Nicole Kidman.”
    unknown · 0:56:48
  3. pick The masks and the secret society
    “Um, you know, the masks, you already said, and just more broadly, but the thing about that is, like, Sean was saying earlier, it's timeless, the secret society aspect where it holds up now, but you can also imagine this happening in the 1700s and anytime in between.”
    unknown · 1:01:24
  4. pick Eyes Wide Shut: The film is timeless and not tied to 1999.
    “I think you can make a case that's aged the best of any 1999 movie because it doesn't take place really in a year.”
    unknown · 1:03:39

What Aged the Worst · What about the film has aged poorly.

  1. pick The gay-bashing scene on the street
    “We mentioned the gay bashing scene, which is just weird.”
    unknown · 1:04:28
  2. pick Casting a real married couple
    “Casting an actual married couple in the film is both the best and worst thing about it.”
    unknown · 1:05:23
  3. pick The mystery of the secret society
    “I would say that you could say that the actual mystery has not aged very well.”
    unknown · 1:05:33
  4. pick Dr. Bill's medical skill
    “Dr. Bill's prowess as a medical professional.”
    unknown · 1:06:41
  5. pick The tame orgy
    “Just like we said, the orgy scene is so tame.”
    unknown · 1:07:35
  6. pick No male full frontal nudity
    “Not, yeah, given how the sheer volume of the nudity in the movie, not seeing a dick at any point is fucking weird.”
    unknown · 1:08:10

Most 1999 Thing · The most 1999 thing about the movie.

  1. pick The Cruise-Kidman marriage
    “I think it's the Cruise Kidman marriage because that was kind of the iconic marriage of that decade, right?”
    unknown · 1:08:33

Casting What-Ifs · Who was considered for the film instead.

  1. pick Woody Allen as Dr. Bill
    “Casting what ifs in the 70s when Kubrick wanted to do this, he had Woody Allen.”
    unknown · 1:08:59
  2. pick Steve Martin as Dr. Bill: Named for the 1980s version, a sex comedy.
    “It was going to be a sex comedy with a quote, wild and somber streak running through it.”
    unknown · 1:09:20
  3. pick Harrison Ford as Dr. Bill
    “Harrison Ford was a top choice at one point.”
    unknown · 1:09:27
  4. pick Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger
    “Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, considered at one point.”
    unknown · 1:10:09
  5. pick Jennifer Jason Lee and Harvey Keitel: Lee shot the Marion scene and Keitel left the production.
    “And then we mentioned Jennifer, Jason Lee and Harvey Keitel.”
    unknown · 1:10:18
  6. pick Johnny Depp: Another host says he doesn't believe it.
    “Johnny Depp.”
    unknown · 1:10:22
  7. pick Val Kilmer
    “But, uh, Val Kilmer apparently sent 30 unsolicited audition tapes, Kilmer, did Kubrick.”
    unknown · 1:10:33

Apex Mountain · Where something in the film sits on the mountain.

  1. nominee The Eyes Wide Shut party / orgies in general
    “Hmm. I guess this is Apex better for the eyes wide shut party.”
    unknown · 1:14:03
  2. nominee Movies filmed in London pretending to be New York
    “How about movies filmed in London pretending to be in New York?”
    unknown · 1:14:20
  3. pick Tom Cruise: Asked whether the film was a good career move for Cruise.
    “It is part of the weird cruise Apex legacy, but at the same time, I just wish he had done a different movie.”
    unknown · 1:22:26

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of the film.

  1. pick Alice getting that high off a couple hits of one joint
    “I have a hard time believing that Alice got that high off a couple hits of one joint.”
    unknown · 1:14:33
  2. pick Domino's roommate: She knows about Bill yet not that nothing happened.
    “I, I, I was confused by, even though every sequence with Domino and her roommate is wonderful, Domino's roommate clearly knows all about Bill, right?”
    unknown · 1:15:18
  3. pick Dr. Bill in Uggs, drinking a beer
    “Do we do we buy the Dr. Bill wears uggs at home?”
    unknown · 1:17:19
  4. pick Dialogue that doesn't sound like real people: Nick and Bill's reunion talk.
    “Like, who talks like that?”
    unknown · 1:18:10

Best Quote · The favorite line in the film.

  1. pick Pollock: Nick is safely back home as Victor Ziegler
    “Uh, my favorite quote is, I assure you that Nick is safely back home and he's probably banging Mrs. Nick as we speak.”
    unknown · 1:18:14
  2. pick Sandor's line on marriage and deception as Sandor Szavost
    “Don't you think one of the charms of marriage is that it makes deception a necessity for both parties?”
    unknown · 1:18:46
  3. pick Ziegler's straight talk as Victor Ziegler
    “Okay, Bill, let's cut the bullshit, all right?”
    unknown · 1:19:27
  4. pick Ziegler's line about the woman squeezing her little titties as Victor Ziegler
    “Now, when she is having her little titty squeezed, do you think she ever has any little fantasies about what handsome Dr. Bill's Dicky might be like?”
    unknown · 1:20:02

Unanswerable questions · Questions the film raises and never answers.

  1. pick How rich are Bill and Alice
    “How rich are they?”
    unknown · 0:45:52
  2. pick Was Milich pretending the first time
    “Do you think he was pretending for Tom Cruise the 1st time that he didn't know what was going on?”
    unknown · 0:51:24
  3. pick What the mask on the pillow means
    “So the novella explains why the husband's mask is on the pillow next to his sleeping wife.”
    unknown · 1:21:14
  4. pick Was this Kubrick's final cut
    “Was this Kubrick's final cut?”
    unknown · 1:24:03
  5. pick Why there is an office in the bathroom
    “Who the fuck puts their office in the bathroom?”
    unknown · 1:26:33
  6. pick Is Ziegler's wife in on it
    “Some question, is Siegler's wife in on all this?”
    unknown · 1:26:42
  7. pick How the party knew Bill right away
    “I had an unanswerable of how they knew it was him in the orgy once he comes in with the mask on.”
    unknown · 1:27:07
  8. pick Mandy's body changing between scenes
    “Can we, while we're talking about her, can we talk about the bodies not being the same?”
    unknown · 1:28:38
  9. pick Is Alice orgasming while dancing
    “Or is she actually orgasming while dancing?”
    unknown · 1:30:45
  10. pick Did Bill get Nick killed
    “You think Bill got Alan Cummings' character killed by saying that he told him all these things about Nick?”
    unknown · 1:33:53

Who Won the Movie · Who came out ahead.

  1. pick The Illuminati: A joke pick.
    “The Illuminati, because they killed Kubrick.”
    unknown · 1:34:18
  2. pick Stanley Kubrick: The film never should have worked.
    “I have, uh, it's got to be Kubrick.”
    unknown · 1:34:28

Could This Be a 10-Episode Netflix Show · Whether the film could be remade as a prestige TV series.

  1. pick 10-episode Netflix remake: Says no, because Kubrick is essential.
    “Because I feel like Kubrick's so essential, but this actually, if Netflix existed in 1999, I wonder if that's the direction he could have gone.”
    unknown · 1:20:57

Best production story · The craziest story from making the film.

  1. pick 95 takes of walking through a door
    “He had cruise dude 95 takes of walking through a door.”
    unknown · 0:29:43
  2. pick Kubrick as marriage counselor
    “He found his story through psychoanalyzing Cruz and Kidman and basically being their marriage counselor and they all agreed, we'll never tell anyone else what we talked about.”
    unknown · 0:29:48
  3. pick Six days filming Kidman and not letting her tell Cruise
    “She filmed the scene where she did this scene with the male motto and he filmed it for 6 days and wouldn't let her tell Cruz anything about it.”
    unknown · 0:30:04
  4. pick Pollock scene: 3 weeks and 200 takes
    “It took 3 weeks to film that scene and 200 takes.”
    unknown · 0:30:26
  5. pick Researching Showgirls for the sex scenes
    “Um, for the sex scenes, he researched basic instincts, showgirls, and other erratic thrillers, like Red Shoe Diaries, to evaluate how far he could push the sexual contact.”
    unknown · 0:30:31

Who talked about it

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Arthur Schnitzler: 2 lines the host's read ×2

  1. lineage (adaptation): Arthur Schnitzler ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read). Kubrick turned Schnitzler's Dream Story into Eyes Wide Shut 30 plus years later (per the dossier).
    “the Arthur Schnitzler book that he's going to turn into Eyes Wide Shut 30 plus years later.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:10:40 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella): 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (adaptation): Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella) ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read). The speakers note the film's credit says inspired by, not adapted from, Schnitzler's novella.
    “It's not adapted from Schnitzler.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:37:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Kirk Douglas: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (origin of the project): Kirk Douglas ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so). Kirk Douglas claims he handed Kubrick the novella during their Paths of Glory or Spartacus fights.
    “Kirk Douglas claims he gave it to him during one of their like shared therapy sessions”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:33:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Modern Romance: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Modern Romance ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so: Kubrick's call to Albert Brooks, 'that famous story'). Kubrick reached out to Albert Brooks after Modern Romance because he wanted to bottle that dynamic of men and women.
    “if you like reached out to Albert Brooks after seeing modern romance and said, like, Brit, and he was like, how did you do this?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:38:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Terry Southern: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (origin of an idea): Terry Southern ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read). A conversation Southern had with Kubrick about an erotic film that looks like a film is called a kernel of Eyes Wide Shut.
    “he basically had a conversation at one point with Kubrick that is a kernel of eyes wide shut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:15:42 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (title origin): Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read). The speaker offers that the phrase 'eyes wide shut' may come from the le Carre novel.
    “It may have been inspired from Tinker Teal or Soldier Spy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:40:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Babygirl: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read). The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut.
    “Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Juneteenth (Atlanta episode): 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (the host's read). Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut.
    “this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85 sure it was them)

Phantom Thread: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (lesson learned): Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Phantom Thread (the host's read). The speaker feels PTA took lessons from visiting the Kubrick set about small crews.
    “Like, it feels like PTA sort of learned some lessons from being on the set that took years to see Ben.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:06:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Connected to

Tom Cruise: 5 lines career ×2 programming ×1 what-if ×1 people ×1

  1. career (career): Tom Cruise → Eyes Wide Shut. Vanilla Sky and Eyes Wide Shut dissect his persona outside the blockbuster, whereas Edge does it inside a blockbuster.
    “like vanilla sky and eyes wide shut, like the ones that are kind of dissecting his persona”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:03:54 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Stanley Kubrick: 4 lines verdict ×1 people ×1 craft ×1 contrast ×1

  1. craft (craft): Eyes Wide Shut → Stanley Kubrick. The set would mean a long shoot with a great filmmaker, two stars in an actual marriage and untold stories.
    “obviously you've got one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, 2 of our favorite stars in the midst of a marriage and a film about the potential dissolution of a marriage”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:11:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Barry Lyndon: 3 lines unmapped ×1 programming ×1 craft ×1

  1. programming (emotional pairing): Barry Lyndon → Eyes Wide Shut. These two Kubrick films feel warm to the speaker compared with the rest.
    “But Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are the 2 that feel like they sort of cut through to me on a deeper level, where I feel genuine warmth and affection for them.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:13:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Magnolia: 3 lines career ×1 verdict ×1 people ×1

  1. career (career arc): Magnolia → Eyes Wide Shut. Both are directors riffing on Cruise's fame and persona, and are his big acting-year pair in 1999.
    “puts him in a position to do all of that and also comment on it and play with the idea of Tom Cruise.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:28:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

After Hours: 2 lines people ×1 unmapped ×1

  1. people (director-method aside): After Hours → Eyes Wide Shut. Bill cites Kubrick pressing Cruise and Kidman emotionally on Eyes Wide Shut.
    “what he did to Cruz and Kidman, where he was just clearly trying to break them emotionally”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:28:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Arthur Schnitzler: 2 lines lineage ×2

  1. lineage (adaptation): Arthur Schnitzler → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick turned Schnitzler's Dream Story into Eyes Wide Shut 30 plus years later (per the dossier).
    “the Arthur Schnitzler book that he's going to turn into Eyes Wide Shut 30 plus years later.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:10:40 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Babygirl: 2 lines lineage ×1 career ×1

  1. career (career): Eyes Wide Shut → Babygirl. Kidman's Eyes Wide Shut work reads as an early beginning of the capstone that is Babygirl; the two films are in conversation.
    “a nice little beginning of the capstone to baby girl.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:08:56 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Vanilla Sky: 2 lines career ×1 craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Vanilla Sky → Eyes Wide Shut. Cruise in masks again, soon after Eyes Wide Shut.
    “right after eyes wide shut too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:46:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

8mm: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Eyes Wide Shut → 8mm. Eyes Wide Shut's costume shop and 8MM's Joaquin Phoenix working at an adult store are jobs that know the dark world.
    “Actually, now that we're talking about this, the Joaquin Phoenix, an 8 millimeter.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:56:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Armageddon Time: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (family comparison): Armageddon Time → Eyes Wide Shut. The Harfords are compared to the aspirational James Gray family.
    “the platonic ideal of like the James Gray family in Armageddon time”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:43:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Before Midnight: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (ending analog): Before Midnight → Eyes Wide Shut. The speaker reads the ending of Eyes Wide Shut as like the ending of Before Midnight.
    “It reminds me a lot, like the more recent, uh, analog, I think of, is the ending of before midnight”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 2:38:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Dmitri Shostakovich: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (music in the film): Dmitri Shostakovich → Eyes Wide Shut. A speaker recalls it as the one with all the Shostakovich.
    “the one with all the Shastakovich?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:24:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Don't Worry Darling: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (marketing comparison): Don't Worry Darling → Eyes Wide Shut. Both were sold on mystique and rumors about what happened on set.
    “It just, it sort of was a, don't worry, darling, of its time where people were so fascinated by all the different stories”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:09:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella): 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (adaptation): Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella) → Eyes Wide Shut. The speakers note the film's credit says inspired by, not adapted from, Schnitzler's novella.
    “It's not adapted from Schnitzler.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:37:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Edge of Tomorrow: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career arc): Eyes Wide Shut → Edge of Tomorrow. Edge of Tomorrow is a blockbuster version of Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia where the hero keeps failing and dying.
    “Edge of Tomorrow, for example, is kind of like a newfangled,”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:33:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Fight Club: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (marketing parallel): Eyes Wide Shut → Fight Club. Entertainment Tonight did an exclusive trailer premiere for both Eyes Wide Shut and Fight Club.
    “do the exclusive premiere of the trailer, which they also did for Eyes Wide Shut”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:56:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

György Ligeti: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (needle drop): György Ligeti → Eyes Wide Shut. The Ligeti music's first appearance is called one of the great needle drops in film.
    “one of the great needle drops in all of film, which is the introduction of the Legeti score”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 2:10:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jocelyn Pook: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (composer): Jocelyn Pook → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick asked Pook for sex music and what she came back with is incredible.
    “Let's do some sex music.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 2:08:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Juneteenth (Atlanta episode): 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) → Eyes Wide Shut. Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut.
    “this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85 sure it was them)

Kirk Douglas: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (origin of the project): Kirk Douglas → Eyes Wide Shut. Kirk Douglas claims he handed Kubrick the novella during their Paths of Glory or Spartacus fights.
    “Kirk Douglas claims he gave it to him during one of their like shared therapy sessions”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:33:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Leon Vitali: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (shared actor): Leon Vitali → Eyes Wide Shut. Vitali plays seven different roles in Eyes Wide Shut after Barry Lyndon.
    “playing like 7 different roles and eyes wide shut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:28:41 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Michael Clayton: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (role comparison): Michael Clayton → Eyes Wide Shut. Bill Harford is called in like the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes.
    “the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:17:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Minority Report: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Minority Report → Eyes Wide Shut. How-is-that-a-job category: Minority Report's eyeball seller, Milich's costume shop in Eyes Wide Shut.
    “Like the dude in minority report who just sells new eyeballs to Tom Cruise.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Modern Romance: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Modern Romance → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick reached out to Albert Brooks after Modern Romance because he wanted to bottle that dynamic of men and women.
    “if you like reached out to Albert Brooks after seeing modern romance and said, like, Brit, and he was like, how did you do this?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:38:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Nicole Kidman: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Nicole Kidman → Eyes Wide Shut. Kidman had already done Eyes Wide Shut, which was quite enough of that kind of film.
    “I also think that Nicole did eyes wide shut and that was quite enough.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:29:21 · Jourdain Searles (0.80 sure it was them)

Owen Gleiberman: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (critical verdict): Owen Gleiberman → Eyes Wide Shut. Gleiberman's review likens the film to a dream already analyzed on a shrink's couch.
    “like a dream that has already been analyzed on a shrinks couch.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:03:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Phantom Thread: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (lesson learned): Eyes Wide Shut → Phantom Thread. The speaker feels PTA took lessons from visiting the Kubrick set about small crews.
    “Like, it feels like PTA sort of learned some lessons from being on the set that took years to see Ben.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:06:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Ruth Sobotka: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (origin of the project): Ruth Sobotka → Eyes Wide Shut. Others guess Kubrick's Austrian second wife may have given him the Austrian novel.
    “Maybe she gave it to him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:33:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Showgirls: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Showgirls → Eyes Wide Shut. Verhoeven makes nudity upsetting while Eyes Wide Shut makes it feel like nature photography.
    “Our showgirls episode you talked about Pearl Verhoven's attack on the breast.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 2:00:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Sleep No More (theater production): 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (comparison): Sleep No More (theater production) → Eyes Wide Shut. A speaker says the staged-ritual reading of the orgy makes it basically Sleep No More.
    “It's basically sleep no more”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:58:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Steve Martin: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if casting): Steve Martin → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick loved The Jerk and talked to Steve Martin about the lead.
    “Simon, Steve Martin, he loved the jerk.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:40:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Sydney Pollack: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Sydney Pollack → Eyes Wide Shut. Pollack's Player cameo ended an acting drought since Tootsie and set off a chain that led to Eyes Wide Shut.
    “this sets off a chain of movies culminating in Him in the leather sleeveless vest and knives wide shut”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:56:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Terry Southern: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (origin of an idea): Terry Southern → Eyes Wide Shut. A conversation Southern had with Kubrick about an erotic film that looks like a film is called a kernel of Eyes Wide Shut.
    “he basically had a conversation at one point with Kubrick that is a kernel of eyes wide shut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:15:42 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)

The Killing: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (trajectory): The Killing → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick goes from documentary reality to building his own fake New York by Eyes Wide Shut.
    “by the time you get to eyes wide shut and he has no interest in capturing reality”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:20:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (title origin): Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy → Eyes Wide Shut. The speaker offers that the phrase 'eyes wide shut' may come from the le Carre novel.
    “It may have been inspired from Tinker Teal or Soldier Spy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:40:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Todd Field: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Todd Field → Eyes Wide Shut. Todd Field as an actor is an absolute banger in Eyes Wide Shut, Twister and Sleep with Me, then directed only three unique movies.
    “Nick in eyes wide shut, twister, and sleep with me.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:23:57 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Tom Hanks: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Tom Hanks → Eyes Wide Shut. Hanks in Eyes Wide Shut would be a tough one.
    “What about Hanks and Eyes wide shut?”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:25:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Tootsie: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (casting parallel): Tootsie → Eyes Wide Shut. Hoffman cast Pollack to be intimidated, and Pollack is similarly a director Cruise defers to.
    “And similarly, it's very smart to cast Pollock in this because Pollock is a director who's worked with Cruz before.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:15:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Vivian Kubrick: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (unused score): Vivian Kubrick → Eyes Wide Shut. Vivian also wrote an Eyes Wide Shut score that was not used; Pook scored it.
    “Vivian Kubrick did a score for eyes wide shut that wasn't used, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:04:40 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Woody Allen: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if casting): Woody Allen → Eyes Wide Shut. At different times Kubrick wanted a Woody Allen version of the movie.
    “at different times, he wanted to make a Woody Allen version of this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:39:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

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career (9)

  1. career (career): Todd Field → Eyes Wide Shut. Todd Field as an actor is an absolute banger in Eyes Wide Shut, Twister and Sleep with Me, then directed only three unique movies.
    “Nick in eyes wide shut, twister, and sleep with me.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:23:57 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Sydney Pollack → Eyes Wide Shut. Pollack's Player cameo ended an acting drought since Tootsie and set off a chain that led to Eyes Wide Shut.
    “this sets off a chain of movies culminating in Him in the leather sleeveless vest and knives wide shut”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:56:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Eyes Wide Shut → Tom Cruise. A complicated movie for Cruise and Kidman, tied to their relationship and the last thing Kubrick made.
    “the last thing that Kubrick made.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:08:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Eyes Wide Shut → Babygirl. Kidman's Eyes Wide Shut work reads as an early beginning of the capstone that is Babygirl; the two films are in conversation.
    “a nice little beginning of the capstone to baby girl.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:08:56 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. career (career arc): Magnolia → Eyes Wide Shut. Both are directors riffing on Cruise's fame and persona, and are his big acting-year pair in 1999.
    “puts him in a position to do all of that and also comment on it and play with the idea of Tom Cruise.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:28:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. career (career arc): Eyes Wide Shut → Edge of Tomorrow. Edge of Tomorrow is a blockbuster version of Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia where the hero keeps failing and dying.
    “Edge of Tomorrow, for example, is kind of like a newfangled,”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:33:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Tom Cruise → Eyes Wide Shut. Vanilla Sky and Eyes Wide Shut dissect his persona outside the blockbuster, whereas Edge does it inside a blockbuster.
    “like vanilla sky and eyes wide shut, like the ones that are kind of dissecting his persona”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:03:54 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. career (career turn): Eyes Wide Shut → Vanilla Sky. Vanilla Sky is the outlier in Cruise's run after Eyes Wide Shut, seen as a bid for commercial work.
    “It's just fascinating the vanilla sky.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:48:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. career (career): Nicole Kidman → Eyes Wide Shut. Kidman had already done Eyes Wide Shut, which was quite enough of that kind of film.
    “I also think that Nicole did eyes wide shut and that was quite enough.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:29:21 · Jourdain Searles (0.80 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): Showgirls → Eyes Wide Shut. Verhoeven makes nudity upsetting while Eyes Wide Shut makes it feel like nature photography.
    “Our showgirls episode you talked about Pearl Verhoven's attack on the breast.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 2:00:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Stanley Kubrick → Eyes Wide Shut. Guerrilla street shooting in Killer's Kiss versus building his own New York for his last film.
    “just funny thing to contrast with his career ending with eyes wide shut where he's like, I'm going to fucking make my own New York City.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:04:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

craft (5)

  1. craft (craft): Eyes Wide Shut → Stanley Kubrick. The set would mean a long shoot with a great filmmaker, two stars in an actual marriage and untold stories.
    “obviously you've got one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, 2 of our favorite stars in the midst of a marriage and a film about the potential dissolution of a marriage”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:11:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. craft (music in the film): Dmitri Shostakovich → Eyes Wide Shut. A speaker recalls it as the one with all the Shostakovich.
    “the one with all the Shastakovich?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:24:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. craft (unused score): Vivian Kubrick → Eyes Wide Shut. Vivian also wrote an Eyes Wide Shut score that was not used; Pook scored it.
    “Vivian Kubrick did a score for eyes wide shut that wasn't used, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:04:40 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. craft (use of music cues): Barry Lyndon → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick repeats and uses every music cue powerfully in both films.
    “I mean, that's what eyes wide shut as well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:49:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Vanilla Sky → Eyes Wide Shut. Cruise in masks again, soon after Eyes Wide Shut.
    “right after eyes wide shut too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:46:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (marketing parallel): Eyes Wide Shut → Fight Club. Entertainment Tonight did an exclusive trailer premiere for both Eyes Wide Shut and Fight Club.
    “do the exclusive premiere of the trailer, which they also did for Eyes Wide Shut”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:56:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. industry (marketing comparison): Don't Worry Darling → Eyes Wide Shut. Both were sold on mystique and rumors about what happened on set.
    “It just, it sort of was a, don't worry, darling, of its time where people were so fascinated by all the different stories”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:09:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

lineage (10)

  1. lineage (lineage): Babygirl → Eyes Wide Shut. The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut.
    “Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) → Eyes Wide Shut. Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut.
    “this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (origin of the project): Kirk Douglas → Eyes Wide Shut. Kirk Douglas claims he handed Kubrick the novella during their Paths of Glory or Spartacus fights.
    “Kirk Douglas claims he gave it to him during one of their like shared therapy sessions”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:33:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (origin of the project): Ruth Sobotka → Eyes Wide Shut. Others guess Kubrick's Austrian second wife may have given him the Austrian novel.
    “Maybe she gave it to him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:33:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (source novella): Arthur Schnitzler → Eyes Wide Shut. The speaker says the novel is very close to the film, so close that its plot beats are nearly one to one.
    “And it is very similar to eyes wide shut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:33:31 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (adaptation): Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella) → Eyes Wide Shut. The speakers note the film's credit says inspired by, not adapted from, Schnitzler's novella.
    “It's not adapted from Schnitzler.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:37:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (influence): Modern Romance → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick reached out to Albert Brooks after Modern Romance because he wanted to bottle that dynamic of men and women.
    “if you like reached out to Albert Brooks after seeing modern romance and said, like, Brit, and he was like, how did you do this?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:38:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (title origin): Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy → Eyes Wide Shut. The speaker offers that the phrase 'eyes wide shut' may come from the le Carre novel.
    “It may have been inspired from Tinker Teal or Soldier Spy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:40:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (origin of an idea): Terry Southern → Eyes Wide Shut. A conversation Southern had with Kubrick about an erotic film that looks like a film is called a kernel of Eyes Wide Shut.
    “he basically had a conversation at one point with Kubrick that is a kernel of eyes wide shut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:15:42 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. lineage (adaptation): Arthur Schnitzler → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick turned Schnitzler's Dream Story into Eyes Wide Shut 30 plus years later (per the dossier).
    “the Arthur Schnitzler book that he's going to turn into Eyes Wide Shut 30 plus years later.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:10:40 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

people (7)

  1. people (director-method aside): After Hours → Eyes Wide Shut. Bill cites Kubrick pressing Cruise and Kidman emotionally on Eyes Wide Shut.
    “what he did to Cruz and Kidman, where he was just clearly trying to break them emotionally”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:28:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (auteur credit): Eyes Wide Shut → Stanley Kubrick. Eyes Wide Shut's success owes to it being a Kubrick film and playing with Cruise-Kidman.
    “such a huge part of that movie's success, in addition to it being a Kubrick film”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:31:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. people (casting parallel): Tootsie → Eyes Wide Shut. Hoffman cast Pollack to be intimidated, and Pollack is similarly a director Cruise defers to.
    “And similarly, it's very smart to cast Pollock in this because Pollock is a director who's worked with Cruz before.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:15:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. people (shared lead performance): Eyes Wide Shut → Magnolia. The speaker says Magnolia is the only other Cruise movie where reality distorts around him while he clutches at control.
    “The only other movie that fits that description for Cruz is Magnolia, which he was filmed right after.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:21:07 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. people (composer): Jocelyn Pook → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick asked Pook for sex music and what she came back with is incredible.
    “Let's do some sex music.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 2:08:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. people (shared actor): Leon Vitali → Eyes Wide Shut. Vitali plays seven different roles in Eyes Wide Shut after Barry Lyndon.
    “playing like 7 different roles and eyes wide shut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:28:41 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. people (people): Tom Cruise → Eyes Wide Shut. The Cruise-Kidman breakup came soon after the movie they made about their sex life.
    “This is coming pretty shortly after the movie they made about their sex life.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:20:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

programming (2)

  1. programming (programming): Tom Cruise → Eyes Wide Shut. If Cruise would answer everything, the Rewatchables pick is Eyes Wide Shut.
    “I would do eyes-wise shut.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (emotional pairing): Barry Lyndon → Eyes Wide Shut. These two Kubrick films feel warm to the speaker compared with the rest.
    “But Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are the 2 that feel like they sort of cut through to me on a deeper level, where I feel genuine warmth and affection for them.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:13:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (5)

  1. theme (theme): Minority Report → Eyes Wide Shut. How-is-that-a-job category: Minority Report's eyeball seller, Milich's costume shop in Eyes Wide Shut.
    “Like the dude in minority report who just sells new eyeballs to Tom Cruise.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Eyes Wide Shut → 8mm. Eyes Wide Shut's costume shop and 8MM's Joaquin Phoenix working at an adult store are jobs that know the dark world.
    “Actually, now that we're talking about this, the Joaquin Phoenix, an 8 millimeter.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:56:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. theme (family comparison): Armageddon Time → Eyes Wide Shut. The Harfords are compared to the aspirational James Gray family.
    “the platonic ideal of like the James Gray family in Armageddon time”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:43:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. theme (role comparison): Michael Clayton → Eyes Wide Shut. Bill Harford is called in like the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes.
    “the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:17:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. theme (comparison): Sleep No More (theater production) → Eyes Wide Shut. A speaker says the staged-ritual reading of the orgy makes it basically Sleep No More.
    “It's basically sleep no more”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:58:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (7)

  1. unmapped (critical verdict): Owen Gleiberman → Eyes Wide Shut. Gleiberman's review likens the film to a dream already analyzed on a shrink's couch.
    “like a dream that has already been analyzed on a shrinks couch.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:03:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (lesson learned): Eyes Wide Shut → Phantom Thread. The speaker feels PTA took lessons from visiting the Kubrick set about small crews.
    “Like, it feels like PTA sort of learned some lessons from being on the set that took years to see Ben.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:06:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (one crazy night): After Hours → Eyes Wide Shut. The speaker pairs the two one-crazy-night New York movies and notes Kubrick adored After Hours.
    “interesting to look at this movie against, uh, after hours in certain ways, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:53:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (needle drop): György Ligeti → Eyes Wide Shut. The Ligeti music's first appearance is called one of the great needle drops in film.
    “one of the great needle drops in all of film, which is the introduction of the Legeti score”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 2:10:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (lenses and lighting): Barry Lyndon → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick briefly considered the Barry Lyndon lenses for a similar warm lighting scheme but film speeds had moved on.
    “he briefly considered using the Barry Linden lenses for this because he knew he wanted to have a similar lighting scheme.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 2:37:41 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (ending analog): Before Midnight → Eyes Wide Shut. The speaker reads the ending of Eyes Wide Shut as like the ending of Before Midnight.
    “It reminds me a lot, like the more recent, uh, analog, I think of, is the ending of before midnight”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 2:38:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (trajectory): The Killing → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick goes from documentary reality to building his own fake New York by Eyes Wide Shut.
    “by the time you get to eyes wide shut and he has no interest in capturing reality”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:20:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Eyes Wide Shut → Stanley Kubrick. A masterpiece, Kubrick's Christmas movie, and an automatic Hall of Fame inclusion.
    “Obviously, a masterpiece, Stanley Kubrick's Christmas movie”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:07:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (ranking): Eyes Wide Shut → Magnolia. Forced to cut between them, one host expects Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia choice but both stay.
    “You're going to make me choose between eyes wet shut and magnolia then.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:32:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (4)

  1. what-if (what-if): Tom Hanks → Eyes Wide Shut. Hanks in Eyes Wide Shut would be a tough one.
    “What about Hanks and Eyes wide shut?”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:25:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Tom Cruise → Eyes Wide Shut. Late-80s cocky Cruise or Eyes Wide Shut-era Cruise could have worked as Oliver.
    “Or eyes wide shut, era Tom Cruise, you know?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:16:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if casting): Woody Allen → Eyes Wide Shut. At different times Kubrick wanted a Woody Allen version of the movie.
    “at different times, he wanted to make a Woody Allen version of this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:39:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if casting): Steve Martin → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick loved The Jerk and talked to Steve Martin about the lead.
    “Simon, Steve Martin, he loved the jerk.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:40:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: Sean's pick for a day on a historic set: a long shoot, one of the greatest filmmakers, two stars in the midst of a marriage, and some of the wildest scenes ever shot.
    “just some of the wildest scenes ever shot in the history of movies occur in that film.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:12:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: Owen Gleiberman's pan called the film a dream already analyzed on a shrink's couch; one speaker says that is exactly why it works for them.
    “has an oddly formal closed off quality, like a dream that has already been analyzed on a shrinks couch.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:03:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: The film sits on a Sight and Sound top ten ballot; one filmmaker, Mia Hansen-Love, put it on her 2012 ballot.
    “One director put eyes wide shot on their 2012 ballot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:12:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: Unrated cut is on Netflix but not Apple. The R-rated version has digital robed figures placed in front of sex acts; contractually Kubrick had to deliver an R.
    “Is there any chance Netflix has the nastier cut and they did?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:17:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: The Schnitzler novella is a slender 110 pages and tracks the movie so closely the speaker jokes it predicted Epstein-era stories.
    “it's a slender tomb, like 110 pages.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:33:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: Kubrick wanted a screenwriter who would crank out raw material for him to turn to gold, per Raphael's quote.
    “He does not want and never wanted a collaborator.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:42:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: The first party was lit by force developing fast film, leaning into the Christmas lights, china balls and worm bulbs for a dreamy glow.
    “The Christmas lights, china balls, uh, worm bulbs, but but trying to avoid standard Hollywood lighting setup.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:11:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: A Jewish speaker reads the Christmas look as a Jew's idea of Christmas: all the aura, none of the symbology; later the group jokes it is the Hanukkah movie, one crazy night.
    “The Jewish element of the movie to me is that it feels like a Jews idea of Christmas.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:12:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: The New York is a single built intersection that gets flipped and redressed, and the film's Village cab rides are slower than walking.
    “they built like this big sort of intersection.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:51:52 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: Abigail Good, who replaced the actress who played Mandy, said Kubrick liked her long legs and the way she walks.
    “She added that Kubrick liked my long legs.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:59:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: The Ligeti needle drop at the orgy is one of the great ones, a cut to the wide shot of everyone waiting.
    “Oh my god, you cuts that wide shot and they're all there.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 2:10:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: Todd Field said they filmed at night on pre-lit sets and spent hours rewriting the scene before shooting.
    “And then Todd Field said they filmed only at nights.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 2:19:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: Hamleys doubles for FAO Schwartz, and Spice Girls dolls in the toy store are the one thing dating the film.
    “There are the Spice Girls dolls in the background”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 2:34:50 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: A rare scene of plain over-the-shoulder coverage, the end-of-film marriage scene, is called a return to normalcy.
    “he shoots just very standard over the shoulder coverage.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 2:37:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: Opened number one on July 16, 1999 with 21 million, the summer's other number-one-no-100M film being The Haunting.
    “Eyes Wide Shut was only one of 2 movies to open between May and August that opened at number one and didn't hit $100 million.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 2:41:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: Karina recalls Entertainment Tonight reporting the film might contain unsimulated sex, and Eyes Wide Shut angering viewers who expected the horniest movie ever.
    “I remember entertainment tonight going, we're hearing there might be unsimulated sex in this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 2:04:50 · Karina Longworth (0.60 sure it was them)

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