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Eyes Wide Shut (1999) | Transcript
A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
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Barry Lyndon | Review by Michael Dempsey
Barry Lyndon is utterly the opposite of the loose, improvised movies which are so popular with many critics these days. Every detail of…
In Memoriam: Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) | by Stanley Kauffmann
Eyes Wide Shut is a catastrophe—in both the popular sense and the classical sense of the end of a tragedy. Everything in Kubrick…
Full Metal Jacket – Review by David Denby
Can the sentiment of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket be anything but mere attitude—death-enthralled chic?
2001: A Space Odyssey – Fantastic Journey
Kubrick has, in one big jump, discovered new possibilities for the screen image. He took on a large challenge, and has met it…
A Clockwork Orange – Review by Paul D. Zimmerman
A Clockwork Orange is a characteristically frosty piece of film-making, shorn completely of sentiment, working through brilliant ironies and dazzling dramatic ideas that…
The Shining – Review by Stanley Kauffmann
The Shining doesn’t scare. The only pang in it is that it’s another step in Kubrick’s descent.
The Odyssey of Stanley Kubrick: Part 3: Toward the Infinite—2001
The strength of 2001 is that it confronts our civilization with an alien one while preserving the mystery of their encounter. The black…
The Killing (1956) | Review by Gavin Lambert [Sight and Sound]
Now that its title has been changed from Bed of Fear (as it was called when I wrote about Stanley Kubrick’s last picture…
Killer’s Kiss – Review by Gavin Lambert [Sight and Sound]
The young writer-director-photographer-editor of this unpromisingly titled film has a good deal of talent. He made Killer's Kiss a year or so ago…
Lolita: In Its Way, a Good Film – Review by Arlene Croce
Lolita has everything it needed to be as brilliant and beautiful as the novel, except great direction. Vladimir Nabokov’s screenplay is a model…
Reading Stanley Kubrick: A Theological Odyssey
Kubrick’s films should be ‘read’ as opposed to ‘viewed’. Too often, the notion of film as something we view rather than read results…
Paths of Glory: Screening the Novel
While Kubrick and writers Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson have changed the focus and toned down some of his narrative’s brutality, Cobb yet…
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – By James Verniere
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) remains Kubrick’s crowning, confounding achievement. Homeric sci-fi film, conceptual artwork, and dopeheads’ intergalactic joyride, 2001 pushed the envelope…
The Shining (1980) – Review by Richard Schickel
By taking a book by an author who is at the center of the craze for the supernatural, and turning it into a…
Protected: Eyes Wide Shut at 20
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Kubrick’s the Killing and the Emplotment of Death
Kubrick's films have leaned toward a kind of reluctant misanthropy which reveals the capability for self-destruction as the linchpin of man's existential predicament.
The End of the Road: Film Noir and Lolita
The most evocative aural and visual descriptions in Lolita are in the manner of classic Forties films noirs, with their oppressive rain-washed nightscapes…
Movies and Censorship: Stanley Kubrick’s “Lolita” (1962)
Although passed without cuts, Lolita was rated "X" by the British Board of Film Censors when released in 1962, meaning no one under…
2001: Odissea nello Spazio (2001: A Space Odissey, 1968) – Recensione di Tullio Kezich
2001: Odissea nello spazio abbraccia un arco di oltre un milione d’anni, dall’alba dell’uomo al primo volo verso Giove. Kubrick ha avuto al…
Dr. Strangelove – Review by Dwight Macdonald
by Dwight Macdonald With this comédie noire Stanley Kubrick clinches his title—one I conceded him years ago—to Best of Show among our younger…
Lolita (1962) – Review by Dwight Macdonald
by Dwight Macdonald Lolita is a good movie which might have been much better. For the title role, Stanley Kubrick discovered a teen-age…
2001: Odissea nello spazio – Recensione di Giacomo Gambetti [Bianco e Nero]
2001: Odissea nello spazio non somiglia a nessun film di fantascienza o di fantapolitica finora realizzato. Perché non è un film di fantascienza…
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) – Review by Stuart Klawans [the Nation]
Eyes Wide Shut is the work of an artist who long ago stopped paying attention to the world around him. If you are…
Lolita (1962) – Review by Andrew Sarris
Lolita is a film that runs steadily downhill at too slow a pace for a needless two and a half hours.