Eyes Wide Shut feels so weird because all of the scenes that take place outdoors, on the streets of the city, are filmed on a soundstage. It gives it a dreamlike, artificial feel

The depth and refinement of Louis' film insight is impressive. What a great artist in his own right.

What I have noticed in these montages of directors works, is that no matter how quickly you cut and edit between shots to give that impressive, all encompassing sweeping scope over an artist’s vision, the best director’s work, the Kubricks, the Kurosawas and so on, each and every shot is superbly composed. The effect is like running through an art gallery and glimpsing masterpieces for seconds at a time, before another work is rapidly unveiled.

i love that you show no mercy towards the other speakers and just let Louis CK flow without interruption.

"Do me a favor, Dorothy: get the fuck awa--get in the other room." lmao exactly how I imagine Kubrick

No director has ever used music and lighting to such amazing effect as Kubrick

The word Louis was looking for about The Shining was "dread". 😀

Did Louie just rewatch all of those before the interview? Amazing memory

i don't know if i've ever heard anyone else say that "the Shining" is told from the point of view of the hotel. i feel like i need to watch it again, with that in mind.

Eyes Wide Shut is the Kubrick movie I watch the most. A couple times a year. Lucky enough yo catch it in a theater. Its like a dream in a haze of delirium.

There’s a compilation of all best vfx winners. The jump up for 2001 and the absolute plummet after is nuts.

I like that the clips from Eyes Wide Shut are shown in open matte (4:3), which is how he shot it (protected for widescreen). Great edit, thanks.

I looked up notes on the Leopard attack scene in "2001 A Space Odyssey". Found this response on reddit. "It certainly was a real leopard. And it was a semi-controlled environment…at best? From the fascinating book “ “Space Odyssey:Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C Clarke, And The Making Of A Masterpiece”, animal trainer Terry Dugan had nearly a year to work with the leopard as the “Dawn Of Man” shooting schedule kept getting delayed. However, when it came to the day of shooting that scene, the leopard had never encountered Dugan in the man-ape suit before…let alone the studio lights and constant set commotion. Plus, the central man-ape actor (“Moonwatcher”) participated in the scene - despite having no prior exposure to the leopard. (Other actors were added to the scene in post-production.) So in short, it was a little chaotic. And only a few takes with the leopard attack were attempted. But they got what they needed…plus a happy accident: when reviewing the footage, they noticed that the lighting produced an eerie effect on the leopard’s eyes, making it even more menacing. Kubrick was ecstatic."

I like Jim Norton's "YEAH" contribution. Really helped contextualize the insight

Best part about this video is every time Ranaan speaks, the video cuts. Thank you!

Dr. Strangelove is a masterpiece!

The scene with the monkeys shows the evolution of the use of tools and the fact that the monolith has been with us at all these important times in the human timeline.

Pretty sure those are tapirs

stuff like this makes me realize that a guy like louie really needed a podcast. theres so much more that i want to hear from him that isnt just opie and anthony highlights

No mention of Clockwork Orange…?

Man, congrats on the channel. Famous people from movies talking about movies and directors they like. Love it ❤

Louis should do a movie review/analysation podcast series, he's really great.

Louie's insight is cool but also, props to the editor who cut this video to help us understand it

Great clip & insights. Would have loved Louis's take on A Clockwork Orange (my favorite--though it trades places w/ The Shining now n' again).

Louis C.K. had a lot to say about Kubrick. He interrupted everyone else. He didn’t dominate the conversation-He gave a speech. And I watched the whole thing and loved it.

Everyone has to see The Killing at least once- it's the beginning of the modern heist movies

Spartacus is one of Kubrick's lesser films, and it's still so quality, entertaining, and enjoyable to watch.

Great insight here. I disagree about the three act structure opinion as Full Metal Jacket definitely has three acts. Glad to see a longer video on your channel. Keep it up.

“Now you got the edge on him.” I kept thinking of the other person who Louie was talking to, other than not saying anything there's nothing to add

PLEASE!!! MORE LONG FORM VIDEOS LIKE THIS ONE!!!

This is fucking genius - I want more of his perspective on other genius level art - this is tremendous!

I never knew much of Kubrick but me and my dad watched “The Killing” on one of those late night film noir tv channels and I loved it. It was so weird and exciting for its time, especially the scene filmed in first person view. I watched some of his later movies afterwards, it’s cool to see how he progressed. I wonder if there will be anyone even close to Kubricks ability to captivate people for half a century anytime soon

CK calling Kubrick a weird man for Eyes Wide Shut is like the pot calling the kettle black. It's laughable knowing CK. Nothing weird about him. He was always a recluse who likes film and nothing else that comes with it. He would do whatever it took to make sure his film was perfect and according to his vision and if people thought he was weird for it, so be it. It was based on a 1926 German book called Traumnovelle. Lot of the elements of the film came directly from that book including all the secret society sex stuff. Lot of ignorant people try to correlate many aspects of the movie with current happenings, Kubrick's inner thoughts, Cruise/Kidman's personal lives and other mumbo jumbo. It has nothing to do with all that. Kubrick had it in mind to translate this book into film since the early 70's. He worked and obsessed with it so hard that he ended up dying from it and Cruise/Kidman subsequently divorced after the 15 months it took to make the film. It is a work of genius and like many of his films, it gets better with every viewing. There are lot of easter eggs he includes in all of his films and this one is no exception. People have their own interpretation of it and all of his other films and he does this deliberately. It's one of my favorite films of his and something I enjoy watching around Christmas.

Great editing, sight and sound. For sight, the images match perfectly with what he's saying. For sound, I imagine Louis in a room full of 2001-style monkey-men who are bouncing up and down in front of microphones and trying to screech something but Louis keeps talking over them.

Attention Sydney Kubrick fans. The Randwick Ritz is showing all his films, one a week, April to July 2024.

just on face value alone his films are visually striking, but what i really enjoy about kubrick's films are the easter eggs. the hints of a deeper meaning, a story within the story that most of us are totally oblivious to and probably too dumb to even begin to understand.

Eyes Wide Shut is a great movie. I've watched it many times and never get tired of it.

Kubrick’s ability to continuously place the camera in the right spot is a God given talent. There is a such thing as setting up a shot incorrectly and Kubrick seldom did, if at all.

Kubrick was one of the few (if not the only one) who could do a film that would make sense narratively for the less educated and at the same time a trip for the more educated. True vertically integrated films, a master of the craft. The way he did it by adding dimensions to EVERY SINGLE THING that shows up in that rectangle is fascinating and inspiring, no wonder he took a decade to make a film. I say he was probably the only one, because he did it consistently in all his films after the studio "period". Also the way he directed actors was always a bit robotic in his own style not based on reality, or natural acting, but a way to enforce whatever idea he had for it. Truly original and missed.

2001 opens with the orchestra tuneup and the black screen because the black screen is the monlith. the entire movie is it.

i love Tom’s early line, “what the name of the babysitter?”

A lot of great takes, except for everything said about Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick: “The idea that a movie should be seen only once is an extension of our traditional conception of film as entertainment rather than art.” - this applies the most to his last film, where the film works by itself but is significantly enhanced by A) repeated viewings, and B) and understanding of the circumstances of how the film came about and everything that happened behind the scenes. That film is so broad - about a bourgeoise marriage and its vapidity, yes, but also about the nature of fantasy vs reality, the blurring of the two, the unimaginative male fantasy, the fragility of the male ego. The fact that it's set in New York but it doesn't look like New York at all I believe is completely intentional. Same with that scene where Cruise is walking on a sidewalk - he's actually walking on a treadmill with a background projected behind him. They could have EASILY filmed that scene conventionally, one has to wonder why if not to enhance the feeling of illusion, which is felt in the relationship between Cruise and Kidman's on-screen relationship (interestingly paralleled with their 'real world' off screen relationship and subsequent collapse - one also has to wonder how real that ever was, a Hollywood power-couple). As I get older and older I think my appreciation and respect for that film only deepens.

Those "Weird Pigs" are Tapirs. Very docile and gentle creatures.

The idea of the ape throwing the bone in the air is that the bone was the first tool or technology then cutting to the present demonstrates our evolution from bone to spaceship.

The wide shots of Africa in 2001 where aquired by a young man directly at Kubricks request, none where taken in U.S.A. everything else in the Dawn of man Sequence was shot on a sound stage in England.

I love this!

THE SHINING; truly shows Kubrick’s mastery of shot composition more than anything else

“Apes & Space” was the original name of The Joe Rogan Experience

It's so nice that celebrities are finally realizing that we don't mind them yapping, just make it about YOUR art, and leave the politics yapping to the yapping mainstream media presstitutes.

The best explanation of Kubrick films I've ever heard.

Louie understands and appreciates film so well, and makes it funny 👑🔥🔥🔥

I don't think the naked woman painting was a "bent" idea; it effectively communicates Scatman's full character including informing his position within the symbolic narrative of the film. Until that shot, all we knew is this mysterious man knows about this mysterious power that Danny has, but with that one shot we find out Scatman's heritage and that he represents the slain natives in the hotel's past.

Say what you want about his personal choices, Louis CK is also a great filmmaker. There are moments in his TV show that were as good as any of the best directing done today.

I just love this channel. Every movie lover should come here watch. Fist time i saw 2001: A Space Odyssey a was on magic mushrooms. It was the best thing ever.

I'm such a big fan of Louis, especially his later TV work like "Louie" and most of all "Horace & Pete". And I was so happy to learn today that he also appreciate Kubrick, one of my favorite directors of all times. Btw, regarding the leopard scene. It looked so real because it was! They actually let a leopard attack a guy in a freakin' ape costume and let it maul him for a couple of minutes! Working with Kubrick must have been insane at times! ^^

I have heard that there are several minutes of EWS that were cut from the movie, I ask myself how it would be with thr original director cut

I've watched a couple of these videos now, and I had no idea Louis could've had another career as a film critic, his analysis of film is fuckin great, like better than anyone else I know(which is kind of mind blowing), but I have to ask, does the other guy ever get a fuckin word in? You might as well edit out all his "but", "yeah", "and", "well", etc

great commentary

He had a wife. Louie CK makes it sound like Kubrick died a recluse or a hermit. He lived in the country with his wife. He was a bit paranoid of people in general, the general public, because he got death threats, and the press blamed him for crime. when A clockwork orange came out. The British press blamed him for some specific crimes that may have been inspired by that movie. Kubrick pulled it from the theaters in Britain and bandit from being shown there ever. Kubrick was a genius and geniuses are supposed to go mad. He didn’t go mad, he died.

My favorite Kubrick movie? All of them!!

Referring to audiences, at the start he says they “are sophisticated” and “enjoy being confused” but later says today “audiences have demands and say ‘I want it to be clear and I want to know what’s happening’”. Those statements contradict one another. 🤔

Love CK’s take on movies

Louis speaks with an authority I imagine you can only do from writing a stupid amount. He doesn't just break down what is presented he appreciates what was created like a fellow craftsman. He knows people constantly try to take others work and attempt to make it more consumable which sucks. Rise to the material don't try to lower it to some made up acceptable standard.

We’ve never seen Stanley Kubricks eyes wide shut, 20 minutes was cut the day he died

I like to think of that first monolith scene in reflection to the cell phone. The shape on obvious parallel, but the sound as the proliferation of information. And, of course, the leap in evolution it represents... The whole world in our pocket.

This is excellent. Great work, and a brilliant analysis ❤

great edit

I always thought the scene with the apes and a bone is the moment early man discovered tools and at that moment the engine of technology and advancement begins, culminating in space travel. Any thoughts?

You can hear the passion in Louie’s voice. He was really contributing to film and tv but he got in trouble for playing with himself. Now we’re not allowed to enjoy him. Awesome…..

Kubrick saw the world from a peep-hole or a Camera lens. He was observing things not living them from a distance and that's the signature in all his movies.

You nailed it on Stephen king! He's a great writer but Kubrick just made him look like Salieri compared to Mozart 🔥

It kills me how many people misunderstand the cut. The bone cut. That isn’t just any space ship. It’s a satellite carrying nuclear missiles. The cut is going from Weapon to Weapon.

Louis CK is a brilliant on cinema. He knows his stuff.

They were not pigs, they were peccaries. I'm glad you like Kubrick as much as I do. BY the way, both of my parents were from Hungary, just to give you some idea of how bad it can get. You are attentive, which makes you such a wonderful comedienne. The concept of Kubrick not offering easy answers, makes his films far more realistic, even my 8-year-old son loved 2001, as it isn't a solution to anything, and he lays no claim to any solutions. What he makes clear is that life in uncertain, and we must meet new challenges, Kubrick is not an instructor, merely am attentive creative guy who I miss.

I’m sold!

8:52 Fred Armisen

Gotta love that some passable monkey man costumes and the most basic movie prop design ever are enough to blow louie's mind. It is a surreal scene due to framing and context, but not so much I can't fathom how they filmed it.

This is really a very good discussion on Kubrick. I never caught that cockroach scene in PoG, until now. Thanks!

Louis obviously really pays attention to things. Amazing breakdown.

I love how he can’t stop talking Kubric , and the interviewer dosnt have a chance in hell to squeeze a sentence in for more then 20 minutes

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“Now you got the edge on him.”

Kubrick is my favorite director, by far. But from everything that I've read, and heard about him, it seems as though his weakest point was being an actor's director. I think this is one of the reasons Harvey Keitel walked out on set, and why he is so frustrated with Duvall in The Shining, or why he took so many takes trying to get his actors perform it right. This isn't a knock on him at all. He just didn't have the ability to convey to his actors the right tone, or performance, to get from them. I read that he may have been on the spectrum, and that probably explains why he may not have been the best actor's director. And, btw, I love eyes wide shut and rewatch it pretty often.

So I think it's clear Louis didn't understand Eyes Wide Shut when he recorded this. Definitely an opus film. Kubrick saw filmmaking as on par with classical painting and wanted to raise the bar of the entire medium in general. Many of his movies work on multiple levels beyond just themes.

wish he would mention clockwork. curious 2 hear his take

And no mention of Clockwork ?

I could see Louis C K in a Kubrick film.

WOw! I love Blade Runner and The Shining is my fave film of all-time. I've seen these films dozens of times, and watched them with scrutiny for film school. The bartender scene is one of my faves. I never made the connection that the bartender was the same actor as Tyrell in BR until Louis pointed this out. Mind blown!

Film is literature. by the way, Trumbo was very good.

He did the animals with rotoscoping.

There is something about a Kubrick film...especially Eyes Wide Shut...that movie has some interesting symbolism to it

My brother and I saw 2001 on magic mushrooms once...It was a difficult watch

I know a lot of people don’t like it, but I love eyes wide shut! It’s a Christmas time drunk movie night flick for me haha

Genius! Stanley was good too.

It sounds like Louis is watching the movie on mute during the interview

Floyd, not Joyce. And the monolith was not hot. The apes had never touched anything smooth before.

Funny how perceptions are- I think Eyes Wide Shut is better than Dr. Strangelove

Ben from knafs playing the main character

No one quite like him, before or since

Yea I’m louies age I loved movies too Young people 30 and under Don’t care about movies anymore Used to be a thing going to a movie They grew up with cable