With jingle bells ringing and snowflakes falling, Stanley Kubrick gleefully frames the most wonderful time of the year as its most impotent. In Eyes Wide Shut, which his collaborators describe him as claiming as his most significant contribution to the art of cinema, the legendary director's swan song forces a wedge between one of Tinseltown's biggest marriages - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Titanic movie stars in their own right, both of them provide a deeply vulnerable exploration of marital infidelity as they navigate the precise and ever-artificial labyrinth of Kubrick's creative process, both on and off set. In celebration of what the famed director means both to the medium and to the pod as well, this episode goes even further into an auteurist discussion than past episodes, as they disentangle its focused cinematography, layered performances, and to what degree this film acts a skeleton key to the rest of the man's oeuvre!
Adam Nayman and Manuela Lazic's Ringer Conversation - Make the Case: ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Is Actually a Comedy, and the Best Film of 1999
With jingle bells ringing and snowflakes falling, Stanley Kubrick gleefully frames the most wonderful time of the year as its most impotent. In Eyes Wide Shut, which his collaborators describe him as claiming as his most significant contribution to the art of cinema, the legendary director's swan song forces a wedge between one of Tinseltown's biggest marriages - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Titanic movie stars in their own right, both of them provide a deeply vulnerable exploration of marital infidelity as they navigate the precise and ever-artificial labyrinth of Kubrick's creative process, both on and off set. In celebration of what the famed director means both to the medium and to the pod as well, this episode goes even further into an auteurist discussion than past episodes, as they disentangle its focused cinematography, layered performances, and to what degree this film acts a skeleton key to the rest of the man's oeuvre!
Adam Nayman and Manuela Lazic's Ringer Conversation - Make the Case: ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Is Actually a Comedy, and the Best Film of 1999