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Eyes Wide Shut [HD DVD] [1999] [US Import] | ![Eyes Wide Shut [HD DVD] [1999] [US Import]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jF0j6ObnL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Madison Eginton, Jackie Sawiris, Sydney Pollack
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
Buy New: £22.56
New (3) Used (2) from £22.56
Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 117255
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed)
Media: HD DVD
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 883929012060
EAN: 0883929012060
ASIN: B0013FSXTG
Theatrical Release Date: July 16, 1999
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: A brand new and factory security sealed UK release and Region 2 HD DVD, Please pay attention to the fact that this HD dvd won't play on a normal dvd player; it needs exclusively an HD dvd player to play it. I am not going to refund any buyer from now on if they make this mistake because they use the HD dvd and unseal it and then return it to me, asking for a refund, and this is not fair because I won't be able to sell it again . Exactly as pictured by Amazon. Sent via Royal Mail by first class recorded delivery. Trust our feedback!
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Visually beautiful, Stanley Kubrick's last completed film Eyes Wide Shut blends the sinister, the sensual and the clinical in a combination that is rather too personal and idiosyncratic to be entirely successful as the final statement about gender and sexuality he intended it to be. Adapted by Frederick Raphael from the Dream Story of Freud's friend Schnitzler, it shows a young successful couple confront the dangers that lurk beyond monogamy; Nicole Kidman's Alice does little more than fantasise, flirt and dream, but even this causes guilt and pain. Doctor Bill (Tom Cruise) does rather more--he visits a whore, crashes an orgy and continues to ask questions when warned off; if no disaster ensues, and it is possible that two people die as a result, it is only luck that averts it. Much of the best of what is here is to be found in occasional moments of stillness--Cruise walking through a morgue--or wild comedy--Cruise's attempt to hire a costume in the middle of the night interrupts major shenanigans at the fancy-dress shop. Cruise and Kidman do what they can with material that never means as much as it aspires to, and the standout performance is Sydney Pollack's, as a worldly wise client. On the DVD: Eyes Wide Shut on DVD is presented in lavish Dolby Sound that makes the most of the obsessive Ligeti piano piece and Shostakovich waltz that dominate the score, and in the 1.33:1 ratio that was Kubrick's considered choice. It has subtitles in English, Arabic, Bulgarian and Rumanian, two TV spots and informative interviews with Kidman and Cruise, as well as with Steven Spielberg, to whom Kubrick had talked at length about his artistic intentions. --Roz Kaveney
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| Customer Reviews: Read 58 more reviews...
 Not completed September 16, 2008
Ms. Harriet L. Fisher (brighton, england)
What other reviewers seem to be forgetting is that Stanley Kubrick died during the making of this film, and therefore it is not complete. Having viewed this film several times, i admit that it is certainly his worst film - but that is only because Kubrick never had the chance to perfect it. I would only reccomend this film to a proper Kubrick fan, no-one else would be able to appreciate it.
 Prefer the US censored version January 31, 2008
Alberto Blanco (atlanta)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I own both versions of eyes wide shut and prefer the us version with the weird cloaked people blocking the eurosoftcore scenes which to me play silly. It gives it a more dreamlike nightmare atmosphere. Anyways , this would be a 5 star film but I don't think Kubrick actually finished it. It plays like a rough cut, it has very unkubrickian (is that a word) scenes. EX: Kubrick would never have had the static mask reveal at the end before the Cruise Entrance and swish pan on the mask. I also believe the film would have been tighter, even for Mr. Barry Lyndon (which is my favorite film of all time). Just disappointed that both versions aren't on the dvd. The Shining super edition should also include both the long US version and the under 2 hour european version.
Where Sex Belongs January 22, 2008
David Burton (Isle of Lewis)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A film brilliant in its drama and humour, but most of all in its treatment of an eternal theme; it gets to the heart of this, focussing
(a) on the impersonal power and seductiveness of sex
and (b) on its place in a marriage where it truly belongs, though both partners are vulnerable to (a). Indeed it is not only love but also luck that keeps them where they belong.
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