Tag: Eyes Wide Shut
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10 Best Conspiracy Movies, According to Reddit
Like it or not, conspiracy theories can be fun. There’s something entertaining about hearing people’s ideas evolve into a full-blown plot against humanity. Sometimes, we even get a movie or TV show based on a famous conspiracy theory, and if done right, those programs become incredibly popular. Cue the classics like Three Days of the…
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This Tom Cruise Performance Was Written With Tom Hanks in Mind
Although Tom Cruise is most closely associated with the action genre due to the success of Top Gun and Mission: Impossible, in the 1990s, it feels like he made it a goal to work with nearly every great filmmaker on a prestige project. Between Sydney Pollack’s The Firm, Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men, Neil…
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Nicole Kidman Killed It in This Transformative Role
As one of Hollywood’s biggest actors, Nicole Kidman might usually be associated with cult classics like Moulin Rouge! and Eyes Wide Shut, but earlier on in her career, she delivered a dazzlingly dark performance in To Die For, which would prove to be a game-changer. Due to return to Nine Perfect Strangers for its second…
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Tom Cruise’s Only Western Is Old Fashioned Romance at Its Best
Throughout their relationship and marriage of more than 10 years, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman famously co-starred in three films. Having met and first worked together on Tony Scott’s Days of Thunder, the Hollywood power couple would conclude their professional partnership nine years later with Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, a film that some speculate…
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Making Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Was a Real-Life Nightmare
The intensity of production for Stanley Kubrick’s films has been well documented. With hundreds of takes, attention to detail down to the smallest imaginable thing, using lenses from NASA to film in candlelight for Barry Lyndon, Kubrick was a perfectionist. None of his films were more of a nightmare to make than his final one,…
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Tom Cruise Questions Everything in Kubrick’s Final Film
On July 16, 1999, Stanley Kubrick’s greatly anticipated final film, Eyes Wide Shut, was released. Kubrick passed away a few months before the movie came out, and it remains one of the auteur’s most provocative, controversial, and astonishing contributions to the cinematic art form. The film stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, at the time…
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Tom Cruise Hopes to Keep Making ‘Mission: Impossible’ Films Until He’s 80
Tom Cruise isn’t kicking his acting career into cruise control anytime soon.The “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” star and producer told the Sydney Morning Herald that he is determined to be acting at least for the next two decades, much like iconic screen star Harrison Ford. “Harrison Ford is a legend; I hope…
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This Iconic Stanley Kubrick Scene Took 148 Takes to Get Right
Like many writers and directors who rise to the top of their profession, Stanley Kubrick was, no doubt, a perfectionist, and it’s hard to disagree with that statement based on evidence throughout the auteur’s career. The last six films he directed took sequentially longer before he deemed them ready for release. There’s a three-year gap…
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Stanley Kubrick Had Tom Cruise Flying Blind While Filming Eyes Wide Shut
It’s hard to reckon with a filmmaker such as Stanley Kubrick when he’s created art so deserving of critical acclaim, but the grandeur is clouded by how incredibly difficult, obsessive, and manipulative his behavior was on set. Films like “A Clockwork Orange” and “Eyes Wide Shut” had audiences everywhere figuratively by the throats, earning decades…
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Tar Director Todd Field Helped Invent Big League Chew
Everyone in Hollywood had to get their start somewhere, and it’s always fascinating when we hear a story outside of nepotism. Actor Danny DeVito had worked as a hairstylist in a mortuary for a brief period of time, Christopher Walken was a former lion tamer, and legendary horror director Wes Craven cut his teeth in…