Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick's Swan Song

Broey Deschanel February 26, 2022
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Welcome to my channel! I post monthly videos on a mixture of film analyses, retrospectives, politics and just absolutely overthinking anything to do with pop culture. Spoiler warnings are placed on videos that discuss shows/movies with a twist, recent shows/movies, or shows/movies that aren't the subject of the video. If you're watching a video about a show/movie that is over a decade old, very famous in pop culture, and the subject of my video - then please watch at your own discretion. My business email is linked on this page. Please be mindful that I receive a great number of requests for academic interviews, reviewing or promoting films (particularly student films), and guest speaking on podcasts. I try my best to respond to these inquiries - but I cannot commit myself to all of them, so I have to be sparing. This does not reflect on the quality of your research, film, or podcast - and more so that I don't want to spread myself too thin! Apologies if I don't get back to you!

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Jessica Hausner’s AMOUR FOU is now streaming on MUBI in Canada. Get a whole month of great cinema for free: https://mubi.com/broeydeschanel What exactly is wrong with Eyes Wide Shut? Let’s find out! Music is from Epidemic Sound SOURCES: Seth Abramovich. “Searching for Shelley Duvall: The Reclusive Icon on Fleeing Hollywood and the Scars of Making ‘The Shining’” The Hollywood Reporter (2021). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/searching-for-shelley-duvall-the-reclusive-icon-on-fleeing-hollywood-and-the-scars-of-making-the-shining-4130256/ Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality, City Lights Publishers (1986). Roger Ebert. “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999). https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/eyes-wide-shut-1999  Kevin Filipski. “Jan Harlan Keeps His Eyes Wide Open On New Ideas” Times Square (2007). https://web.archive.org/web/20120226124101/http://timessquare.com/Film/Film_Interviews/Jan_Harlan_Keeps_His_Eyes_Wide_Open_On_New_Ideas/  Michael Herr, “Kubrick” Vanity Fair, (2000).  https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2010/04/kubrick-199908  James Israel. “Kubrick Apparently Thought “Eyes Wide Shut” Was A ‘Piece of Shit’?” Indie Wire (2006). https://www.indiewire.com/2006/10/kubrick-apparently-thought-eyes-wide-shut-was-a-piece-of-shit-219955/  Robert Kolker and Nathan Abrams, “The Elusive Jewishness of “Eyes Wide Shut” — Stanley Kubrick’s Final Film” Forward (2019).  https://forward.com/culture/423562/the-elusive-jewishness-of-eyes-wide-shut-stanley-kubricks-final-film/  Audre Lorde, “The Uses of the Erotic” Sister Outsider, Crossing Press (1984). Stefan Mattessich, “Grotesque Caricature: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut as the Allegory of Its Own Reception” Postmodern Culture, Volume 10, Number 2, (2000). Amy Nicholson, Eyes Wide Shut at 15: Inside the Epic, Secretive Film Shoot that Pushed Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman to Their Limits, Vanity Fair (2014). https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/07/eyes-wide-shut-tom-cruise-nicole-kidman  Paul O’Callaghan, “Eyes Wide Shut, 20 years on: how does Stanley Kubrick’s last testament stand up?” BFI (2021). https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/eyes-wide-shut-stanley-kubrick-tom-cruise-nicole-kidman  Stephen Pizzello, “A Sword in the Bed: Eyes Wide Shut” American Cinematographer (2020).  https://ascmag.com/articles/a-sword-in-the-bed-eyes-wide-shut  Ed Power, “Eyes Wide Shut: 20 years on, Stanley Kubrick’s most notorious film is still shrouded in mystery” Independent (2019).  https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/eyes-wide-shut-stanley-kubrick-tom-cruise-nicole-kidman-marriage-film-plot-a9083926.html Jonathan Rosenbaum & Peter Loewenberg in Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History, University of Wisconsin Press (2006). Schnitzler to Theodor Reik, December 31, 1913, Schnitzler Briefe, 1913-31, 35-36.  Lee Siegel, “EYES WIDE SHUT: WHAT THE CRITICS FAILED TO SEE IN KUBRICK’S LAST FILM” Harper’s October 1999: 76-83. Linda Ruth Williams, The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, Indiana University Press, (2005).