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Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic mystery psychological drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick.It is based on the 1926 novella Dream Story (German: Traumnovelle) by Arthur Schnitzler, transferring the story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City.
The film is an unintended companion piece to Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 cult classic “Eyes Wide Shut,” another titillating drama starring Kidman also set in New York at Christmastime.
With "Eyes Wide Shut" marking its 25th anniversary, it felt like a good occasion to deepen the discussion. You told me once that Kubrick jettisoned a scene in "Eyes Wide Shut" that you had spent ...
However, a screenplay was never completed and Kubrick's film adaptation plan was never initiated (the unfinished Aryan Papers was a factor in the abandonment of the project). [71] In between Eyes Wide Shut and A.I., Kubrick was interested in making a film, for children and young adults, based on H. Rider Haggard's viking epic novel, Eric ...
[36] The rating of the film later brought comparisons to Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, which was released in theaters in a digitally altered and censored version two weeks after South Park; [37] the original cut was rated NC-17 before Warner Bros. altered it to ensure an R rating. In response to these debates and controversy, Stone called ...
Nicole Kidman took a trip down memory lane while she recalled making Eyes Wide Shut with her then-husband, Tom Cruise. During a Tuesday, July 16, interview with the Los Angeles Times, Kidman, 57 ...
Sony Pictures initially refused to remove the scene. However, on 29 January 2008, after the scene was excised, the film was rated R18 for "torture and sadistic violence". [347] 2010 I Spit on Your Grave (2010 remake) Banned "because it tends to promote and support the use of violence to compel any person to submit to sexual conduct". [348] [349 ...
A low-budget Italian film entitled Nightmare in Venice was adapted from Dream Story in 1989. It was directed by Mario Bianchi, mainly known for low-budget erotic thrillers. [3] Stanley Kubrick's 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut, starring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Sydney Pollack is the best-known adaptation. It is modernized and Americanized, set in ...