Eyes Wide Shut

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This was the penultimate film as Director for Stanley Kubrick. He would not direct his final film, E [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick allowed Nicole Kidman to listen to some music in order to liven up for nude scenes - [...]	D
Tom Cruise was in England because Nicole Kidman was there shooting Ritratto di signora (1996), and e [...]	D
When Harford's secretary brings lunch to his desk, she stops directly between the camera and a paint [...]	D
London's Hatton Garden was decked out as New York Xmas.	D
Tom Cruise who plays Dr. Bill Harford, and Sky du Mont who plays Sandor Szavost, have both played Wo [...]	D
According to Sydney Pollack, Stanley Kubrick had such a good reputation that he could shoot in Engla [...]	D
Alan Cumming auditioned for the tiny part of a hotel clerk six times.	D
Tom Cruise's character was originally supposed to be named Rascal, but Tom threatened to quit the pr [...]	D
In a few shots of Tom Cruise walking through the city, background plates of actual New York City str [...]	D
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman spent so long living in the UK, due to the prolonged shoot, that their [...]	D
A real-estate agent's sign that appears briefly in shot at the end of a street carries the name Vita [...]	D
The final scene of the film has Bill and Alice discussing what they would like to do, and Alice says [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick had three assistants on the film. Their credits are "Assistant to the Director" (Leo [...]	D
Harford's wallet is quite full at the beginning of the film, but later it's clear he's rather outmat [...]	D
Tom Cruise was required to do 95 takes of just walking through a door.	D
Sydney Pollack previously directed Tom Cruise in Il socio (1993). Cast member Todd Field later direc [...]	D
Highclere Castle near Newbury was used for the orgy scene.	D
The film was "pushed" two stops in processing, enabling Stanley Kubrick to film using existing sourc [...]	D
Filming started in November '1996 and re-shoots were still being done in 1998.	D
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman signed open-ended contracts. They agreed to work on this project until [...]	D
Some 1 million feet of film was shot, which is about 3 to 4 times the length of an average film.	D
One of the titles for the film, as suggested by Kubrick's co-writer, was "The Female Subject."	D
The film is notoriously known for its secrecy during production and the secrecy even divided the two [...]	D
Paul Thomas Anderson made a visit to the set, where he offered Tom Cruise the role of Frank T.J. Mac [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick's widow; christiane and his estate have publicly expressed their anger and disapprov [...]	D
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem - a mass for the dead - plays on the soundtrack when Bill Harford [...]	D
When it was announced that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman would be making the film with Stanley Kubric [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick optioned the novella, Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler, twenty years before he made [...]	D
This was the only one of Stanley Kubrick's movies to not have either narration or title cards used a [...]	D
The thirteen-and-a-half minute billiard room scene between Tom Cruise and Sydney Pollack took about [...]	D
Abigail Good, a runway model who plays the mysterious woman who intervenes at the ceremony and is le [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick's daughter Katharina Kubrick and his grandson Alex Hobbs appear as the mother and th [...]	D
Kubrick regarded Eyes Wide Shut as his best work.	D
Next to the Sonata Jazz club is a cafÃ© called "Gillespie's," named after famous jazz musician Diz [...]	D
Frederic Raphael's original screenplay included much more personal background on Bill Harford (Tom C [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick reportedly watched movies like Showgirls (1995), Basic Instinct (1992), and Attrazio [...]	D
Often seen as a critique of Scientology by Kubrick.	D
Nicole Kidman said that during filming Stanley Kubrick gave her a chance to move according to her in [...]	D
Just before Bill enters Domino's apartment for the second time, where he is told that Domino has tes [...]	D
The Jocelyn Pook composition playing during the ceremony at the masked ball is a fragment of an Orth [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick approached his Full Metal Jacket (1987) co-writer Michael Herr to help him with the [...]	D
To prepare his stars for their roles, Stanley Kubrick had joined psychoanalysis sessions with Tom Cr [...]	D
Todd Field also played a medical school drop-out in the romantic comedy Corso di anatomia (1989), in [...]	D
Nicole Kidman admitted that her explicit scenes with the naval officer, played by Gary Goba, were di [...]	D
This film contains subliminal references to almost all of Stanley Kubrick's films, including his fir [...]	D
Madam Jojo's in London's Soho became a New York jazz club.	D
Due to Stanley Kubrick's fear of travel, virtually the entire film was shot in and near London (desp [...]	D
During his long stay in the UK, Tom Cruise visited a Blockbuster store to rent a video. Imagine his [...]	D
When masked guests at the party are dancing nude, Bert Kaempfert's song "Strangers In the Night" can [...]	D
Like his character Nick Nightingale, Todd Field was also in real-life a jazz musician from the Pacif [...]	D
By coincidence, Tom Cruise and Thomas Gibson were both born on July 3, 1962.	D
When Warner Bros. president Terry Semel approved production, he asked Stanley Kubrick to cast a movi [...]	D
Appeared in the Guinness Book of Records with the record for "The Longest Constant Movie Shoot," at [...]	D
Vinessa Shaw's one scene as Domino was supposed to take only two weeks of shooting. Due to Stanley K [...]	D
Was #5 on Martin Scorsese's list of the Best Films of 1990s.	D
When Bill Harford watches television in his living room apartment, an NFL game is on. The game is al [...]	D
The credits say that the film is only "inspired by 'Traumnovelle' by Arthur Schnitzler," first publi [...]	D
About 1 hour, Bill (Tom Cruise) goes to rent a costume. This is supposed to be Greenwich Village in [...]	D
Johnny Depp was considered for the role of Dr. William Harford.	D
The letters and the newspaper read by Tom Cruise are written in Italian for the Italian version of t [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick: [114] The room in the morgue visited by Bill is in wing C, room 114 (C-Rm114, or CR [...]	D
Thomas Gibson (6 ft 2 in) is 17 cm taller than Tom Cruise (5 ft 7 in), but they look approximately t [...]	D
Julie Benz was set to take part in the film but ultimately declined as she didn't want to appear top [...]	D
The Caffe Da Emilio is named after Stanley Kubrick's assistant Emilio D'Alessandro who also makes a [...]	D
Alan Cumming, who played the hotel clerk, remarked in a later interview that Kubrick had assumed he [...]	D
The stress of the legendary long shoot gave Tom Cruise an ulcer, but he was so determined not to let [...]	D
Madam Jojo's in London's Soho was transformed into a New York jazz club.	D
While VHS and region 2 DVD editions sold in Great Britain, Germany and France have always been compl [...]	D
According to the screenplay published to tie in with the film, the girl at the costume store whisper [...]	D
Nearly two decades after the film was released, it received renewed attention and examination due to [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick arranged that Arthur Schnitzler's novella not appear in an English translation until [...]	D
Arthur Schnitzler's novella "Traumnovelle" was adapted before in the rarely seen Austrian TV film Tr [...]	D
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's love scene was shot on a closed set.	D
In 2019, it was revealed that the voice of the Mysterious Woman was dubbed by Cate Blanchett. Abigai [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick was set to make 'Aryan Papers,' an adaptation of a novel called 'Wartime Lies' by Lo [...]	D
Brian W. Cook: served as co-producer and first assistant director and played the tall butler.	D
Rade Serbedzija (Milich) dubbed himself in the Italian release.	D
In October 2020, Nicole Kidman told IndieWire that Stanley Kubrick gave her final approval on her nu [...]	D
Filming started in November 1996 and re-shoots were still being carried out in 1998.	D
At fifty-nine minutes into the film, Nick Nightingale writes the password "Fidelio" on a napkin with [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick and director of photography Larry Smith tested out different film stocks and finally [...]	D
LeeLee Sobieski (Milich's Daughter) collects locks of hair from major stars appearing with her in fi [...]	D
Leon Vitali (Red Cloak) wore platform shoes to look more imposing during the ritual scene.	D
While Bill is at Domino's house, he receives a call from Alice. The television, in the kitchen where [...]	D
The article Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) is reading in the cafÃ©, titled "Ex-beauty queen dies in hot [...]	D
Julienne Davis recalled how she was initially cast as an extra for the orgy scene by Vitali. "Origin [...]	D
Though often referred to as Stanley Kubrick's "unfinished masterpiece," the final edit of the film w [...]	D
This movie spent almost a year in post-production.	D
The man chosen to play the lover of Alice's dreams was Gary Goba, a twenty-nine-year-old Canadian mo [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick's perfectionism led him to oversee every visual element that would appear in a given [...]	D
Harvey Keitel and Jennifer Jason Leigh were replaced by Sydney Pollack and the then unknown Marie Ri [...]	D
When Tom Cruise's character is interrogated before the attendants of the orgy, and after he returns [...]	D
A VHS copy of the movie Rain Man - L'uomo della pioggia (1988) is seen in Alice and Bill's bedroom o [...]	D
Film debut of Julienne Davis (Mandy).	D
The orgy scene was filmed in the country home which belonged to the banking family the Rothschilds. [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick died just four days after presenting Warner Bros. with what was reported to be a fin [...]	D
Due to the long shooting schedule, both Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's other movie projects, Mission [...]	D
Sky du Mont (Sandor Szavost) dubbed his own part for the German release.	D
Bill finds himself in stressful conversations that seem to put him at an impasse. Each time he is in [...]	D
When Bill enters his apartment for the last time (right before he discovers the mask on his pillow) [...]	D
Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Thomas Gibson all starred together in Ron Howard's Cuori ribelli (1992 [...]	D
In 1982, John Sayles stated that Kubrick was working on a project that was: 'cosmic: too cosmic even [...]	D
British author and conspiracy theorist David Icke described in a magazine interview the Freemasonic [...]	D
Lisa Leone: the set decorator and second unit production manager is playing Lisa.	D
Variety reported that Stanley Kubrick himself selected the movie's release date after analyzing scor [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...]	D
The only film made by Stanley Kubrick to be released after Woody Woodpecker creator Walter Lantz' de [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick: [Dopplegangers] Thomas Gibson bears a passing resemblance to Tom Cruise (and they a [...]	D
According to writer Frederic Raphael, the final form of Bill's family name (Harford, as opposed to S [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick's previous film about a married couple was Shining (1980), with Jack Nicholson and S [...]	D
The dress that Alice disrobes in the opening scene was Nicole Kidman's own John Galliano dress, afte [...]	D
The password "fidelio" (from the Latin root "fidelis" meaning "faithful") is the title of Ludwig van [...]	D
In April 1971, Warner Bros. head John Calley announced that Stanley Kubrick's next production for th [...]	D
Harvey Keitel and Jennifer Jason Leigh originally played Victor Ziegler and Marion Nathanson. Keitel [...]	D
Christiane Kubrick (Stanley's wife) and Katharina Kubrick (Kubrick's stepdaughter) contributed origi [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick: [The Glare] The scene in the taxi, when paranoid thoughts are going through Tom Cru [...]	D
According to writer Frederic Raphael, a few of the proposed titles for the film were "You and Me" an [...]	D
In the scene where Dr. Harford is walking down the street being followed he stops at a newspaper sta [...]	D
Frank Ocean sampled one of Nicole Kidman's monologues from the film into his song "Love Crimes," rel [...]	D
Given Stanley Kubrick's fear of flying, the entire film was shot in England. Sound stage works were [...]	D
Eva Herzigova was offered the role of Mandy by Stanley Kubrick, but she refused because there were t [...]	D
This was Kubrick's third film a row to feature an actor from the Batman film franchise. Shining (198 [...]	D
Stanley Kubrick: sitting in the booth across from Bill's table at the Sonata CafÃ©.	D
Melissa Joan Hart auditioned for the role of Domino.	D
Stanley Kubrick's first film to open at number one in the U.S.	D
At Victor's party, Bill Harford is being led away by two models. When he asks where they're going, o [...]	D
The mirror scene lasted up to ninety seconds in the trailers. Audiences were surprised when only twe [...]	D
Victoria Eisermann shot some scenes, as Harvey Keitel's wife, but they were deleted when Keitel left [...]	D
35mm prints consist of 9 reels.	D
According to screenwriter Frederic Raphael, the final edit of the film was in fact completed by Sydn [...]	D
The cast includes seven directors: Sydney Pollack, Todd Field, Thomas Gibson, Rade Serbedzija, Alan [...]	D
Although Frederic Raphael wrote the screenplay, he only ever met Stanley Kubrick four times during t [...]	D
Harrison Ford was Stanley Kubrick's first choice for the lead at an earlier time in development.	D
Stanley Kubrick: [Bathrooms] Alice is seen using the toilet early in the movie. At the party, a girl [...]	D
When the film opened in July 1999, much of the attention focused on the sex scenes, with Nicole Kidm [...]	D
At precisely 47:49, "Domino" (Vinessa Shaw) propositions Bill (Tom Cruise) while he is out walking. [...]	D
The production ended in January 1998, just a couple of weeks after the filming of Nicole Kidman's se [...]	D
Nearly 20 years after the film's release, Kubrick's personal assistant Leon Vitalli revealed that he [...]	D
In the USA, the film opened on the same weekend that John Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister were [...]	D
The Harfords' apartment is based on a New York City apartment where Stanley Kubrick and family lived [...]	D
The mask that Bill Harford wears with his costume is modelled from the face of Ryan O'Neal, a refere [...]	D
In order for the film to be given an R rating in the U.S. (as opposed to NC-17), some scenes contain [...]	D
This was one of Nicole Kidman's personal favorite experiences while working on a film, citing workin [...]	D
Early on in development, when Stanley Kubrick planned to do Eyes Wide Shut (1999) as a comedy, he co [...]	D
The chanting at the mansion party loosely translated means: "We still pray for the mercy, the life, [...]	D
In this and the following three films in which Tom Cruise played the lead role (Mission: Impossible [...]	D
The tremendous hype around the release of this film resulted in several rumors about the plot. The m [...]	D

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