Eyes Vast Shut was the final film directed by Stanley Kubrick, and the haunting movie is lastly getting a 4K launch courtesy of the Criterion Assortment. The movie stars Tom Cruise as a health care provider who’s shocked when his spouse (Nicole Kidman) reveals ideas of infidelity, prompting him to embark on a surreal night-long journey, throughout which he memorably infiltrates a secret society holding a masked orgy.
The movie shall be launched by Criterion on November 25.
The official description from Criterion: “Stanley Kubrick’s career-capping Eyes Vast Shut unfolds in a dreamscape imaginative and prescient of New York Metropolis, the place physician Invoice Harford (Tom Cruise) and his spouse, Alice (Nicole Kidman), confront the unconscious needs, jealousies, and fears threatening their marriage. A Christmastime odyssey right into a surreal sexual underworld whose hidden energy constructions are laid frighteningly naked, the movie marks the success of the director’s decades-long want to adapt Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Dream Story and the end result of his obsessive curiosity within the relationship between institutional authority and the person. Launched in 1999, the movie additionally serves as a becoming coda to a century of cinema, by one among its best visionaries—an endlessly tantalizing labyrinth whose myriad symbols, mysteries, and meanings are nonetheless being unraveled.“
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New 4K digital restoration of the worldwide model of the movie, supervised and authorized by director of pictures Larry Smith, with 5.1 encompass DTS-HD Grasp Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the movie offered in Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR and two Blu-rays with the movie and particular options
- New interviews with Smith, photographer and second-unit director Lisa Leone, and Stanley Kubrick archivist Georgina Orgill
- Archival interview with Christiane Kubrick, director Stanley Kubrick’s spouse
- By no means Only a Dream (2019), that includes interviews with producer Jan Harlan; Katharina Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick’s daughter; and Anthony Frewin, Kubrick’s private assistant
- Misplaced Kubrick: The Unfinished Movies of Stanley Kubrick (2007)
- Kubrick Remembered (2014), that includes interviews with actors Todd Discipline and Leelee Sobieski and filmmaker Steven Spielberg
- Kubrick’s 1998 acceptance speech for the Administrators Guild of America’s D. W. Griffith Award
- Press convention from 1999, that includes Harlan and actors Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
- Teaser and trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and onerous of listening to
- PLUS: An essay by writer Megan Abbott and a 1999 interview with actor Sydney Pollack
Kubrick died of a coronary heart assault simply six days after screening the movie for Cruise, Kidman, and executives at Warner Bros. The movie was launched three months later to polarizing opinions, however very similar to Kubrick’s different movies, it has been repeatedly studied and reappraised over time.
In accordance with Invoice Hunt of The Digital Bits, Warner Bros. has licensed Lolita to Criterion as effectively. When that movie is launched on 4K, Kubrick’s complete filmography shall be out there on the format, which is improbable information for collectors.
Are you planning on including Eyes Vast Shut to your 4K assortment?
