Episode 30: On Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut'
No dream is ever just a dream. Or so Tom Cruises tells Nicole Kidman at the end of Eyes Wide Shut. In this episode, Phil and JF expound some of the key themes of Kubrick's film, a masterpiece of cinematic chamber music that demonstrates, with painstaking attention to detail, Zen Master D\u014dgen's utterance that when one side of the world is illuminated, the other side is dark. Treading a winding path between wakefulness and dream, love and sex, life and art, your paranoid hosts make boldly for that secret spot where the rainbow ends, and the masks come off.
\n\nREFERENCES
\n\nArthur Schnitzler, Dream Story (Traumnovelle) -- Source of the EWS screenplay, sadly overlooked in the episode but well worth a read.
\nFrederic Raphael, Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick
\nBathysphere\xa0
\nFrank L. Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
\nDavid Icke's "reptilian" theory of the British Royal Family\xa0
\nThomas A. Nelson, Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze
\nScreenshot of newspaper article from Eyes Wide Shut
\nRodney Ascher, Room 237
\nJames Hillman,\xa0Pan and the Nightmare\xa0
\nGustave Moreau,\xa0L'Apparition
\nMario Praz, The Romantic Agony
\nWilliam S. Burroughs, \u201cOn Coincidence,\u201d in\xa0The Adding Machine
\nJ.F. Martel, "The Kubrick Gaze"
