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Kubrick Edging

June proved to be a wild month: we talked about the wacky space antics of Leprechaun 4: In Space (listen), the underseen-but-very-good trans vampire film Bit (listen), the first half of Grindhouse’s double-bill, Planet Terror (listen) before closing the month with Shinya Tsukamoto’s Japanese cyberpunk masterpiece, Tetsuo: The Iron Man (listen).

Now it’s July, but Trace and I are firmly in a Christmas frame of mind thanks to our very first Stanley Kubrick film on the podcast: 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut.

In the film, married doctor Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) has his world rocked when his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman) discloses a fantasy involving infidelity.

The revelation sends Bill spinning out into the secret sexual world of New York where seemingly everyone is having sex except him. Featuring an iconic (MPA-tampered with) orgy sequence and plenty of queer undertones, Eyes Wide Shut isn’t the thrilling odyssey audiences expected, but it’s a stunning achievement nonetheless.

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Episode 290 – Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Ready for an all-night sexual odyssey? We’re going LONG on Stanley Kubrick’s final masterpiece, Eyes Wide Shut (1999) which stars then real-life Hollywood A-list couple, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

Trace has a lengthy production history for this Guinness Record-holding film, which appears to be making fun of Cruise’s own stardom and sexuality?

Plus: high praise for Kidman’s two confession scenes, selling the film on sex, the cast that could have been, secret societies on and off screen, and talk of Kubrick “edging” the audience for 2.5 hours.

Cross out Eyes Wide Shut!

Coming up on Wednesday: We’re celebrating the release of new summer blockbuster Twisters with a look back at Jan de Bont’s 1996 original, Twister!

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