April 23, 2019 (XXXVIII:12) Stanley Kubrick: EYES WIDE SHUT (1999, 159m) The version of this Goldenrod Handout sent out in our Monday mailing, and the one online, has hot links. Style—use of italics, quotation marks or nothing at all for titles, e.g.—follows the form of the sources. DIRECTOR Stanley Kubrick WRITING Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael wrote the screenplay that was inspired by the story “Traumnovelle” by Arthur Schnitzler. PRODUCED BY Stanley Kubrick, Brian W. Cook (co- producer) CINEMATOGRAPHY Larry Smith MUSIC Jocelyn Pook EDITING Nigel Galt CAST Tom Cruise...Dr. William Harford Nicole Kidman...Alice Harford Madison Eginton...Helena Harford Jackie Sawiris...Roz Sydney Pollack...Victor Ziegler Leslie Lowe...Illona shoestring budget, and made his first major Hollywood film, The Peter Benson...Bandleader Killing*, for United Artists in 1956. This was followed by two Todd Field...Nick Nightingale collaborations with Kirk Douglas, the war picture Paths of Michael Doven...Ziegler's Secretary Glory* ** (1957) and the historical epic Spartacus (1960). As he Sky du Mont...Sandor Szavost was cementing a reputation as a great innovator in cinematic Louise J. Taylor...Gayle vision and technique in the 1960s with the tragicomedy of his Stewart Thorndike...Nuala first Oscar-nominated (Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Randall Paul...Harris Writing) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying Julienne Davis...Mandy and Love the Bomb* ** (1964) and the aporetic, Oscar-winning Lisa Leone...Lisa (Best Effects) and Oscar-nominated (Best Director and Best Kevin Connealy...Lou Nathanson Writing) 2001: A Space Odyssey* ** (1968), Kubrick had Marie Richardson...Marion acquired the rights to Arthur Schnitzel’s “Traumnovelle,” but it Thomas Gibson...Carl would not begin filming until 1996 in London “under the veil of Mariana Hewett...Rosa severe secrecy” (Cinephilia & Beyond). The secret production would end up being Kubrick’s final film, 1999’s Eyes Wide STANLEY KUBRICK (b. July 26, 1928 in New York City, Shut.* ** In the intervening years, Kubrick would make several New York—d. March 7, 1999 (age 70) in Harpenden, controversial and lauded films. The shocking Anthony Burgess Hertfordshire, England, UK) was an American film director, adaptation A Clockwork Orange* ** (1971) and the epic Barry screenwriter, and producer. He is frequently cited as one of the Lyndon* ** (1975) were both nominated for Oscars for Best greatest and most influential filmmakers in cinematic history. His Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing. 1980’s Stephen King films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories, adaptation The Shining* ** became one of the most revered cover a wide range of genres, and are noted for their realism, horror films, generating wild fan theories about the significance dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and of architecture in the film’s haunted lodge. These are the other evocative use of music. Kubrick taught himself all aspects of films he directed (16 credits): Flying Padre* **** (Documentary film production and directing after graduating from high school. short) (1951), Day of the Fight** *** (Documentary short) After working as a photographer for Look magazine in the late (1951), Fear and Desire** *** (1953), The Seafarers*** 1940s and early 1950s, he began making short films on a (Documentary short) (1953), Killer's Kiss* ** ***(1955), Kubrick: EYES WIDE SHUT—2 Lolita* (1962), and Full Metal Jacket* ** (1987), for which he infidelity. These are some other films he has acted in: Endless received his final Best Writing Oscar nomination. Love (1981), Taps (1981), The Outsiders (1983), Losin' It (1983), *Writer Risky Business (1983), All the Right Moves (1983), Legend **Producer (1985), Top Gun (1986), The Color of Money (1986), Cocktail ***Cinematography and Editing (1988), Rain Man (1988), Far and Away (1992), A Few Good ****Cinematography Men (1992), The Firm (1993), Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), Mission: Impossible (1996), ARTHUR SCHNITZLER (b. 15 May 1862, Leopoldstadt, Mission: Impossible II (2000), Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Vienna, capital of the Austrian Empire—d. 21 October 1931, Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004), War Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian author and dramatist. He once of the Worlds (2005), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Lions for responded to a question about criticisms against his recurring Lambs (2007), Tropic Thunder (2008), Valkyrie (2008), Knight themes: "I write of love and death. What other subjects are and Day (2010), Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011), there?" In 1879, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, Rock of Ages (2012), Jack Reacher (2012), Edge of Tomorrow eventually earning his doctorate of medicine. He worked at (2014), Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), The Mummy Vienna's General Hospital, and then moved to exclusively (2017), and Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018). writing. He wrote work deemed controversial in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Vienna where there was a growing hostility to works that were frank about sexuality rooted in an increasing sentiment of anti-Semitism. In a letter to Schnitzler, Sigmund Freud mused, “I have gained the impression that you have learned through intuition—although actually as a result of sensitive introspection—everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons.” He was a member of the avant-garde group Young Vienna (Jung-Wien), where he toyed with formal as well as social conventions. His 1900 novella Leutnant Gustl was the first German fiction to use the modernist technique, made famous by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, stream-of-consciousness narration. Schnitzler's works were called "Jewish filth" by Adolf Hitler and were banned by the Nazis in Austria and Germany, along with writings from Freud, Einstein, Marx, and Kafka. LARRY SMITH (b. London, England) is a British cinematographer (22 credits) known for his work with Stanley NICOLE KIDMAN (b. June 20, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is Kubrick, Tom Hooper and Nicolas Winding Refn. Before an Australian and American actress (84 credits) and producer (8 making his debut as a cinematographer for Kubrick’s final film credits). She began her acting career in Australia with the 1983 Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Smith had done lighting and electrician films Bush Christmas and BMX Bandits. In 1990, she made her work on the sets of Barry Lyndon and The Shining. He made his Hollywood debut in the racing film Days of Thunder, opposite first directorial effort in 2015’s Trafficker. These are the other Tom Cruise. She went on to achieve wider recognition with films and television series he has done cinematography for: Cold leading roles in Far and Away (1992), Batman Forever (1995), Feet (TV Series) (1999), Love in a Cold Climate (TV Mini- To Die For (1995), and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). She received two Series) (2001), The Piano Player (2002), Fear X (2003), Prime consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Suspect 6: The Last Witness (TV Mini-Series) (2003), Red Dust Actress for playing a courtesan in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2004), Elizabeth I (TV Mini-Series) (2005), Marple (TV Series) (2001) and the writer Virginia Woolf in the drama film The (2007), Bronson (2008), The Blue Mansion (2009), The Guard Hours (2002). In 2012, she received her first Primetime Emmy (2011), Austenland (2013), Only God Forgives (2013), Calvary Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries (2014), The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015), Dark Angel (TV or a Movie for her role in the HBO film Hemingway & Gellhorn Mini-Series) (2016), The Alienist (TV Series) (2018), Tau and returned to television in 2017, co-producing and starring in (2018), and Puppy Love (2018). the HBO drama series Big Little Lies, winning the Primetime TOM CRUISE (b. July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York) is one Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress as well as of the most commercially successful American actors who is also Outstanding Limited Series. These are some of the other films widely respected and recognized (49 credits). He is both known she has acted in: Wills & Burke (1985), Windrider (1986), for high-grossing action films, in particular the Mission: Emerald City (1988), Billy Bathgate (1991), Malice (1993), The Impossible franchise, where he famously does his own risky Portrait of a Lady (1996), The Peacemaker (1997), Panic Room stunts and for recognized comic and dramatic turns, in such films (2002), Dogville (2003), The Human Stain (2003), Cold as Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Jerry Maguire (1996), and Mountain (2003), The Stepford Wives (2004), The Interpreter Magnolia (1999), all three films for which he received Oscar (2005), Bewitched (2005), Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane nominations for Best Actor. Throughout the 1990s, he was Arbus (2006), The Golden Compass (2007), Australia (2008), famously married to his Eyes Wide Shut (1999) co-star, Nicole Rabbit Hole (2010), Just Go with It (2011), Stoker (2013), Grace Kidman, adding a layer of intrigue to the film’s themes of marital of Monaco (2014), Paddington (2014), Strangerland (2015), Kubrick: EYES WIDE SHUT—3 Secret in Their Eyes (2015), The Guardian Brothers (2016), The often playing corrupt or morally conflicted power figures. These Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), Top of the Lake (TV Series) are some of the other films and television series he acted in: The (2017), The Beguiled (2017), The Upside (2017), Destroyer Kaiser Aluminum Hour (TV Series) (1956), The Big Story (TV (2018), Boy Erased (2018), and Aquaman (2018). Series) (1957), Now Is Tomorrow (TV Movie) (1958), Playhouse 90 (TV Series) (1959), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) MADISON EGINTON (b. August 28, 1989 in Los Angeles (1960), The Twilight Zone (TV Series) (1960), Have Gun - Will County, California) is an American actress (12 credits) known Travel (TV Series) (1961), The Asphalt Jungle (TV Series) for her work on Star Trek: Generations (1994), Eyes Wide Shut (1961), Ben Casey (TV Series) (1962), War Hunt (1962), Death (1999) and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff Angel (1999).