Eyes Wide Shut, shot-by-shot
Jeffrey Bernstein also has an 84 page shot-by-shot analysis of the first half of Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut. I agree with Bernstein that EWS is underrated, but this verges on scholarly logorrhea. He saw the film seven times within the first three weeks release, and more than a hundred times since. Perhaps he should publish a 15-20 page summary of his most salient points?
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Okay, this is a little too much. I liked the movie more (I thought) than most people, but not as much as this guy:
(emphasis his)
"To speak of *cinematography* would take up too much space just here, and would demand entering into a series of related avenues of inquiry...that are of the highest importance. Suffice it to say at this point that Kubrick's use of the camera is as determined and acute as in the greatest of films. The epithets proficient and expert fall short of describing Kubrick's art; it is genius...In EWS Kubrick's lensing is glorious; is, in a word, sublime. In EWS Kubrick is, in the most powerful sense possible of this expression, *at the top of his form*.
Watch anything more than 100 times and you'll start to feel this way.
Oh, how the camera moves down the waterslide in The Goonies.
especially with those spikes sticking down at them......
blecch. i saw it 2wice in the first weekend. don't ask me why. although, now it's hilarious looking back at the rumors of the shooting schedule being delayed because of tom's and nicole's "intimacy problems."
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