Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final FilmTwenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some 50 years before he finally put it into production. Using the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts, London, and interviews with participants in the production, the authors create an archeology of the film that traces the progress of the film from its origins to its completion, reception, and afterlife. The book is also an appreciation of this enigmatic work and its equally enigmatic creator. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Its Probably Going to Be the Hardest Film to Make Stanley Kubrick Arthur Schnitzler and the Long Gestation of Eyes Wide Shut | 13 |
The Jewish Tailor Writing the Screenplay of Eyes Wide Shut | 41 |
The Knishery Preproduction | 63 |
They Absolutely Took Their Skin Off The Production of Eyes Wide Shut | 85 |
Mayhem Postproduction | 113 |
A Genuine Work of Honest Art The Reception and Afterlife of Eyes Wide Shut | 133 |
NonSubmersible Units An Analysis of Key Scenes in Eyes Wide Shut | 151 |
Eyes Wide Shut Kubricks Films and the History of Cinema | 185 |
Notes | 195 |
Filmography | 215 |
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