Eyes Wide Shut

When Dr.

William 'Bill' Harford is reading the New York Post Holiday Special article about his savior's "accidental" drug overdose, two lines from the second paragraph of the first column 'Hotel by security personnel after her / agent asked them to check on her be-' are printed a second time before the following lines.

There are also similarly repeated sentences in the second and third column as well.

When Dr.

Harford visits his savior's corpse in the New York hospital, British electrical sockets can be seen in the hallways.

The distance between Marion and Dr Bill changes when they are sitting down and talking.

When Alice goes to the bathroom cabinet, you can see the camera reflected in the mirror when she opens the cabinet door.

It and the cameraman are hidden under a white sheet, with just the black, square lens showing through.

(Freeze-frame recommended.

) In the overdose scene in Ziegler's bathroom, crewman with hat distractingly reflected in the shower chrome trim (reports are the video transfer has made this less obvious).

When the masked woman walks up to Bill Hartford with the other masked man, in the first shot (with her hair behind her), she is one actress, but in the next shot (with her hair in front of her), she is an entirely different actress.

One can easily tell this even though she is masked and naked.

Bill Harford arrives at Rainbow Fashions by taxi from the Sonata Cafe and as he talks to Milich, Gillespie's Diner can be been seen across the other side of the street.

Later in the story we discover that Gillespie's is next door to the Sonata Cafe so there's no way he would have taken a taxi just to cross the street (not even in NYC).

Harford talking to Victor Ziegler at pool table, position of cue and balls change and the chalk moves.

The position of Alice's nightshirt strap on her right shoulder during the discussion with Bill where she tells him about the sailor.

When Bill is going to the room where Marion is, we can see two tables in the corridor, with a sculpture on each one.

When Carl arrives some minutes later, the sculpture on the first table has disappeared.

The maid addresses "Carl" as "Mr.

Thomas" when he enters the apartment.

'Thomas Gibson (I)' (qv) plays Carl, but presumably this means the character is "Carl Thomas.

" When Bill and Alice discuss her near-infidelity, the ashtray they were using when smoking the joint appears and disappears from the bed, the tapes and CDs are in different positions, and Bill's hand jumps off Alice's hip.

When Bill Harford is reading the newspaper about the drug overdose, the headline actually reads "drugs overdose" (UK usage) instead of "drug overdose" (USA usage).

When Bill arrives at orgy mansion on first visit his taxi approaches from one direction, but when he returns, he arrives from a different direction.

When Bill enters the temple, there is a laptop PC to the right of the pianist on a black box.

From the other side we see the black box but the PC is gone, only to return shortly after when we see him from the other side again.

The toilet paper in Victor Ziegler's bathroom.

Ziegler's hand positioning is inconsistent between shots in the Mandy Curran overdose scene in his bathroom.

When Milich opens the door to the room where he find his daughter, you can see the the legs of the steadicam operator.

When Bill is reading the newspaper, the small pictures behind him change.

The same graffiti-covered mail collection box appears in multiple scenes, in different locations.

And when Bill is purchasing a copy of the New York Post while being followed, there are three mail collection boxes visible at the same intersection, which is, at least, unlikely.

When Alice Harford is doing math problems with her daughter, a blue bottle appears among the liquor bottles on a table in the background.

The corner ceiling of the set appears missing in the toy store.

There are many instances throughout the movie of UK road signs and road markings which break the New York illusion and inadvertently reveal the shooting locations.

Reflected in the bedpost during the love making scene.

When Alice is talking to Bill on the phone while he is in the prostitute's apartment, the number of cookies in the box in front of her goes from five in the first shot to six in the second.

After being followed while walking, Bill enters a restaurant.

As seen from outside, the street is completely deserted.

But from inside, as Bill enters, you can see people walking by outside the door.

When Doctor Harford is in his office sitting at the desk thinking, late at night, there is only a pen in the middle of the desk.

A moment later there is also an elastic band.

In the orgy scene, when Bill enters the room where there are several people on the long table, we see two people in cloaks (one standing and one sitting) obscuring the camera's view.

In the reverse shot of Bill, these people are no longer there in the background.

These people were added virtually in post production, following the death of 'Stanley Kubrick (I)' (qv) and the movie's subsequent NC-17 rating.

The same gang-"tagged" mailbox is used as a prop on several different back lot "streets".

When Dr.

Harford presents his doctor's license to Milich, his finger partially covers the license in one shot and not in the other.

While Dr.

Harford is arguing with Alice on the bed after smoking a joint, his hair is sticking up in one shot and is flat in the next.

When Dr.

Harford returns to the mansion in the country, it is summer with leaves on the trees behind him.

In the orgy, the girls in the ring change places between shotsThe ones to the left and right of the girl who eventually chose Dr Harford leaves before her.

When she is called to leave, there is suddenly another girl beside her.

When Alice is telling Dr.

Bill her confession about the naval officer, the audio has her saying "you and I made love" while her lips move to say "we made love".

In the context of the following sentences it's clear she was making love to Dr.

Bill, but from the preceding lines her "we made love" could have ambiguously referred to her and the officer.

When Alice is lying in bed telling Bill her dream, first we see the blanket is moved down exposing her hip, haunch, and thigh.

Immediately afterward, the blanket is covering her up to her waist.

When Bill goes to the Sonata Jazz Club, outside of the club are pictures of the four guys in the band with their names.

It lists Larry McVay as the drummer and Kip Fleming as the bassist.

But inside the club, after the band is done playing, Nick (the piano player) introduces the band, and says, "Larry McVay on bass and Kip Fleming on drums.

" In the poolroom scene with Bill and Victor, you can see the boom reflected in the green light when Victor says "OK, he had a bruise on his face.

" In the pool room scene, the red ball changes places three times to right in the middle in front of the pocket and to either side after that.

When Dr.

Bill arrives at the gate of the mansion, a red Mitsubishi Pajero SUV is clearly the only vehicle there.

The man on the gate offers to run Bill up to the house, yet when Bill arrives at the door, the SUV has changed to a Jeep Cherokee of the same colour as the Pajero.

As Alice walks from the ballroom to the bar area at the Ziegler's party, the people next to her in the doorway disappear.

A camera shadow is seen on the ground, to the right of Bill, during his first night walk.

Bill's hands change position when Victor responds to the question about the woman.

When Bill walks into the mansion, the satyr-head door knocker vanishes when the camera cuts to the interior.

In the mortuary, the corpse's nipples are initially erect, but slowly this fades.

You can also see the corpse breathing as Dr.

Bill bends over to kiss her.

When Bill and Victor talk by the pool table, Victor's glass changes positions.

When Alice and Helena are doing story problems, Alice says "Joe has two dollars fifty," which is a UK/Australian construction, as opposed to the more American "two dollars and fifty cents" or "two fifty".

The 3-column New York Post article "Ex-beauty queen in hotel drugs overdose" has two duplicated lines of type on the same row in all three columns, as though two identical articles had been cut and pasted together in the wrong spot.

When Bill returns his costume to Rainbow Fashions, Millich tells him the bill is $375.

His daughter then comes out and interrupts the transaction.

When the Chinese men leave, the transaction has supposedly been completed, but Bill never actually paid.

When the doorman opens the entrance door for Dr.

Bill to the orgy party, the door changes shape.

The position of the stuffed tiger on Domino's bed changes between shots.

No doubt, one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen in my life, but I have so much new respect for Stanley Kubrick for what kind of genius he was. It's definitely not his best but still really good is certain ways.

Can't believe how stupid this film is. Predictable script, with a story line that challenges patience.

Honestly this felt like a perverts dream. Why have a female with no top on in the doctor's scene and the other unnecessary female nudity?

The film has a faint story line and to keep you watching has loads of naked women, however only men would enjoy this. Tom Cruise keeps his clothes on all the time.

My Rating: ***1/2 out of ****.Back in 1999, Eyes Wide Shut was one of the most anticipated films of the year, only the Phantom Menace was more anticipated.

This film caused me some confusion as being unidentified. OK, it's a comedy.

One of the most underrated films of all time, "Eyes Wide Shut" is the result of an intense collaboration between Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Stanley Kubrick. Its title suggests an elusive meaning, a conundrum.

Some observations:1) As the movie starts, with that nonstop jazz waltz by Shostakovich playing and the New York Xmas party at an elegant townhouse with everyone in gowns and tuxes, and then, OMG—is Sydney Pollack in this movie?—I had to wonder if I was watching a parody of all those Woody Allen Manhattan melodramas.

Classic Stanley Kubrick. Beautiful Nicole Kidman.