Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut was received with mixed reviews when it debuted in 1999, and in my opinion, highly underrated. It’s a terrific piece of filmmaking – haunting, intelligent, surreal, and at times even funny. I was pleased to see the following article today, courtesy of Sunset Gun:

Which brings me to the final line of Kubrick’s frequently misunderstood Eyes Wide Shut in which Nicole Kidman states rather flatly, “Fuck” — as in, that’s the answer, that’s what we need to do. A movie I’ve defended since its release, it’s a picture that deserves closer inspection and a worthy finale for the enigmatic auteur.

Read the rest of the great post here. And thank you to Roger Ebert for Twittering the above article. You can follow Mr. Ebert here.

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Hey all, as you’ve probably noticed my blog posts are becoming less and less frequent. I’m very busy with school and volunteering, but a lot of my time has also been devoted to guerrilla marketing a pet project of mine called Cinephile Magazine. I’ve just completed designing a new revision of the site, and we’ve also started a podcast called Cinephile Spoilers. We have three episodes under our belt and will continue to release a new episode every week on the latest movie release(s). You can follow Cinephile Magazine on Twitter at twitter.com/cinephilemag, and subscribe to Cinephile Spoilers via iTunes here.

So while I’ll continue to keep this blog live, don’t expect updates to come every day as they once were. In the meantime, you can follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/literallyfresh, or at Cinephile Magazine occasionally contributing reviews, but mainly behind the scenes tweaking the site, editing and publishing reviews, and producing, editing, and opining on our podcast.

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If you’ve been dying to see how the special FX in Benjamin Button were created, a new site called “The Science Behind the Curious Case of Benjamin Button” has been launched to do just that. Fascinating stuff.

Also, a great podcast produced by the Pixel Corps called The VFX Show goes into great detail surrounding said visual effects in episode 64. Check that out here.

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