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Description for "Eyes Wide Shut"
Paperback. Michel Chion's study of this film makes the case that it is one of Kubrick's masterpieces and a fitting testament. To appreciate this, though it is necessary to look at what happens on the screen without bringing preconceptions to bear. Series: BFI Modern Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 136 x 7. Weight in Grams: 176.
Stanley Kubrick died on 7 March 1999 at his Hertfordshire home, having finished the editing of his last film. Eyes Wide Shut was released later that year. Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 Viennese novel Dream Story, relocated and updated to contemporary Manhattan, Eyes Wide Shut stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a prosperous couple whose marriage is tested in the aftermath a series of sinister events. The film baffled many of its first audiences. It had all the lavish attention to detail of a Kubrick film but it seemed slow, enigmatic, too much of a dream. Michel Chion's extraordinary ... Read more
Stanley Kubrick died on 7 March 1999 at his Hertfordshire home, having finished the editing of his last film. Eyes Wide Shut was released later that year. Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 Viennese novel Dream Story, relocated and updated to contemporary Manhattan, Eyes Wide Shut stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a prosperous couple whose marriage is tested in the aftermath a series of sinister events. The film baffled many of its first audiences. It had all the lavish attention to detail of a Kubrick film but it seemed slow, enigmatic, too much of a dream. Michel Chion's extraordinary ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
British Film Institute United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780851709321
SKU
V9780851709321
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About Michel Chion
Based in Paris, Michel Chion has written many books on the cinema, including a series of groundbreaking works on film sound as well as David Lynch (bfi, 1995) and Kubrick's Cinema Odyssey (bfi, 2000).
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