Special Event: Eyes Wide Shut introduced by Michel Ciment September 16, 2001 photo: eyes wide shut

online ticketing will be available soon! See information about our box office sales here. Special Presentation Kubrick’s final masterpiece will be introduced by legendary film critic Michel Ciment to celebrate the third edition of his Kubrick on Kubrick, the definitive book on the director’s career.

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EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick, USA, 1999; 159m) As was the case with most of Stanley Kubrick’s films, EYES WIDE SHUT was almost universally misunderstood at the time of its initial release, six months after the director’s death in the summer of 1999. Kubrick’s adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s novella A Dream Story is a mesmerizing exploration of jealousy and the very human desire to break through the boundaries of normal life, built around real-life troubled couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Like Schnitzler’s novella — and, for that matter, like The Shining — EYES WIDE SHUT is a story told with the logic of a dream. Those who complained about the film’s unreality missed the point: everything is just a little bit exaggerated, a little bit more vivid than usual, just as in a dream. Sun Sept 16: 7 Email this web page to a friend! Enter the recipient's e-mail address: