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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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267 articlesCome Now, Dr. Strangelove – Review by Andrew Sarris
The great merit of Dr. Strangelove is its bad taste. It is silly to argue that we have the right to say anything…
Dr. Strangelove: Committed, Bitter, One of the Best – Review by Judith Crist
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is one of the most cogent, comic, and cruel movies…
The Movies That Changed US: Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Dr. Strangelove developed in us an embryonic skepticism for what was beginning to be called the "military establishment," and it fostered a growing…
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Review by Bosley Crowther
by Bosley Crowther In light of the phenomenal popularity of George Lukas’ 1977 Star Wars, which seems to have done for science fiction…
A Clockwork Orange: Viddying Metaphor
Whatever tempted Kubrick to adapt the novel A Clockwork Orange and deal with its extraordinary difficulties, his methods of rising to their challenges…
Stanley Kubrick Interview – By Joseph Gelmis
A director is a kind of idea and taste machine; a movie is a series of creative and technical decisions, and it's the…
Barry Lyndon (1975) – Review by Stanley Kauffmann
Beautiful pictures are not film style. Kubrick’s latter-day work is solipsist and smug, isolated and sterile. For me Barry Lyndon is an anti-film,…
Masterpiece: A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Kubrick’s future shock satire, A Clockwork Orange, is twice the movie it was accused of being
The Black Maria Rides Again: Stanley Kubrick’s the Shining
In this essay on The Shining, Paul Miers asserts that “to understand Kubrick's achievement one must attempt a reading of the mass-market book…
2001: L’odyssée De L’espace (1968) – Revue Par Jacques Goimard [Fiction]
D’avance, nous savions que ce serait un événement. Parce que les dix millions de dollars dépensés garantissaient la qualité du spectacle et nous…
Intelligent Design: The Creation of Stanley Kubrick‘s 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick was determined the design for his ‘definitive attempt’ at the science-fiction film should represent a decisive break with Hollywood norms —…
2001: A Space Odyssey – Review by Robert O’meara [Screen]
These are four key scenes from the main sections of 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film that can be considered, with some reservations,…
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) – Review by Janet Maslin [the New York Times]
Given the grippingly bizarre settings and situations that Stanley Kubrick's films favored, what could be more startling than the scene that opens "Eyes…
Eyes Wide Shut (1999): The 90-Second Trailer
Nicole Kidman is dawdling before the mirror, naked except for her eyeglasses and an earring that's giving her trouble. She fusses with it,…
Décor as Theme: A Clockwork Orange
In this essay, Sobchack explores Kubrick's use of décor to emphasize the theme of violence in A Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon (Barry Lyndon, 1976) – Recensione di Tullio Kezich
Barry Lyndon mette in scena una società violenta, ferocemente classista, dove l’avventuriero gode di una libertà effimera e viene presto emarginato e distrutto.…
Arancia Meccanica (A Clockwork Orange, 1972) – Recensione di Tullio Kezich
Stanley Kubrick ha equamente ripartito il film tra un’immagine agghiacciante del futuro e il grigiore dell’establishment antiquato e cadente. Per ripeterci che l’uomo…
Paths of Glory: Kubrick’s Graduation Piece
Paths of Glory finds Kubrick dealing in the wider realm of ideas with a relevance to man and society. Without casting off any…
2001: Odissea nello spazio [Riedizione] | Rassegna stampa italiana
Nell'anniversario della morte di Stanley Kubrick, torna nei cinema nella versione restaurata uno dei suoi capolavori, 2001: Odissea nello spazio
Accepting Violence as a Sensual Pleasure: Pauline Kael and Kubrick’s “a Clockwork Orange”
Pauline believed she had a clear-eyed view of Kubrick’s intentions. At the end of the picture, when Alex’s former victims turn on him…
Stanley Kubrick: The Unbearable Brevity of Being
Kubrick’s virtuosity as a filmmaker, and the range of his subjects, have served to disguise his near-obsessive concern with these two matters—the brutal…
A.i. Artificial Intelligence (2001): The Mommy Returns – Review by J. Hoberman
Fairy tales can come true. Spielberg the historian is in remission; Steven the regressive has returned, with a vengeance. An occasionally spectacular, fascinatingly…
A.i.: Artificial Intelligence (2001) – Review by Tim Kreider
Tim Kreider, who also wrote an incisive article on Eyes Wide Shut ("Introducing Sociology"), here takes a brilliant stab at AI in a…
Movies and Censorship: Stanley Kubrick’s “Spartacus”
SUMMARY Spartacus is based on an historical figure and is the story of the rise and fall of a slave living in Rome…