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July 16, 1999 - 2024: 25 years of: Eyes Wide Shut.

Stanley Kubrick's final masterpiece.

Expectations were sky-high. Silent since 1987's Full Metal Jacket and after pushing aside the Aryan Papers project, his next creation would include two of Hollywood's top guns, real-life celebrity-couple: Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise.

Rated K ...for KUBRICK !

The sane Doctor goes insane on a journey, one night that would change his life, marriage and his views on current society. From bedroom argument with his wife, to a casual chat with an old college-buddy, Bill would uncover a dark truth about relationships and projections thereof. From witnessing the forbidden elite-only masked party, to tracking the hooker's sacrificed corpse ...from jealousy, to curiousity, to lust: 1999's Christmas is one Dr. Harford ain't never going to forget.

A fine-line between facts and fantasy.

Again based on a novel, this time Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 Rhapsody: A Dream Novel, Kubrick updates the story-line and makes it hip 90s New-York City relatable. This vast multi-layered drama, sends us deep into the human psyche and deeper into the Masonic mansion. Exposing the upper-class and it's ties to a secret-society ...this already covered subject in 1962's Lolita is now fully displayed to the mainstream. Wealth and immense social-power, from orgies to murder, controversies aside it now becomes a tough-call not to draw conclusive links to the latter.

The final curtain.

Proud of his work and tired of exhaustion after a grueling fifteen months filming marathon, the World would loose Stanley Kubrick from a heart-attack at the age of 70 ...merely days after delivering his final-cut. Stanley never saw the movie on the big-screen and cinema has lost one of it's most precious visionaries, a one of a kind architect. Many rumors have since sprung as to the involvement of Warner Brothers studios, to edit and censor some scenes, always a big no-no for the perfectionist.

Critics, peers and fans have since praised Eyes Wide Shut has Kubrick's ultimate pristine production. Going beyond, beyond and blatantly exposing undisclosed intelligence, Kubrick's almost half-century legacy is immense, defined and immortal. This is the end of the line, there shall never be another Stanley Kubrick. Never.

"Fuck !" - Alice

RIP Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)
RIP Sydney Pollack AKA Ziegler (1934-2008)
RIP Leon Vitali AKA the Red Cloak (1948-2022)

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Eyes Wide Shut = movie-trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgVo96JaqeM
Eyes Wide Shut = movie soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G4jVgasviw&list=OLAK5uy_li3oGudKgT3Mu-_24DkJECr7YcXlDo2m

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