Word: kubrick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Tuesday was a bittersweet night for Hollywood. At the world premiere of the feverishly awaited Warner Bros. movie Eyes Wide Shut, the last work by the late director Stanley Kubrick, stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman effervesced with the town's glitterati. But Warner Bros. co-CEOs Robert Daly, 62, and Terry Semel, 56, struck some as oddly distracted. Moments before the screening, producer Paula Weinstein found Semel alone in an empty lobby, where the two reminisced about a previous Kubrick premiere. "The moment I saw him, all these memories flooded back," Weinstein says. "I was filled with...
...Stanley Kubrick's last film so important that we need to see its stars half-naked on your cover?" BEN MARTIN Roanoke...
...rest of the film is, sadly enough, a simple exercise in presenting unneeded answers to the many mysteries Bill encountered the night before. In Schnitzler's novel, Bill is left without a true explanation to his journey. But Kubrick inserts a scene where all loose ends are tied up and the result is almost laughable. The film limps to its finish, without catharsis or meaning. The "moral" of the film, according to Alice who had her own horrifying dream adventure the night before, is that "no dream is only a dream" just as no one night symbolizes all "reality...
...much could be said about Kubrick's failure to realize that Bill is also entrapped in his own dream and Kubrick's revamping of Alice's dream (in the book, she dreams of her husband being tortured and crucified). It may seem unfair to criticize a movie because it is its own story, and not Arthur Schnitzler's. But this film has Dream Story's narrative structure, and throughout the movie--especially when the novella's closing moral is repeated verbatim--Kubrick commits himself to Schnitzler's theme...
...that theme is never realized. The problem is that Kubrick's vision of sexuality needs character revelations--a dramatic device which he has always detested. Kubrick is only interested in the generic character, the allegory which reveals human nature rather than idiosyncrasy...