Word: dreamful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skeptical of Eyes Wide Shut from the moment I first heard about it. I was one of the lucky few to get my hands on Arthur Schnitzler's Traumnovelle (Dream Story), the novella upon which the movie is based, before Kubrick bought the rights and blocked its sales. It's a small, 110-page book; I read it six times...
...work back through Schnitzler's convoluted narrative, one thing becomes very, very clear. Kubrick made a dreadful, almost impossible mistake in choosing Dream Story as a source for a cinematic narrative...
...film, the exchange isn't balanced; Alice isn't rational, the emotions are cheapened, and the scene flops. Bill retaliates by diving into an underworld of sexual deviance that takes him far from the Upper West Side. In these strange scenes which valiantly try to capture the dream-like thread of Schnitzler's narrative, Kubrick effectively conveys the image of Manhattan as a series of portals to sex. Every street, every door is its own pathway to sexual fulfillment. But Cruise doesn't work within this symbolic environment. He's too one-dimensional--Cruise has never been capable of subtlety...
...talent, pumps fresh mountain air into their brains and hopes they are never tempted, no matter how much money is waved under their noses, to make The Return of Howard the Duck. "This place," says Mike Hoffman, a 1984 fellow whose recent directing credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, "is a celebration of human subtlety against the glaring cultural vulgarity...
This summer, I'm following a dream, rubbing elbows with musicians who inspire me and learning more about the music industry than I ever knew. I'm working for a record company, Aware Records, here in Chicago. Though I could do many of the tasks I'm doing it in an environment that is making me very happy. I'm not working 100-hour weeks, I'm not wearing an uncomfortable suit, and I'm not working for people I detest. I could, in fact, work that way if I so needed, but I don't think I--or anyone...