In this episode, Ebert and friends have a round table discussion about Stanley Kubrick.
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@kali3665 Жыл бұрын
Shame Roger didn't do this all that much - it would be interesting to have more round-table discussions on a major topic.
@mathiaskanuck67592 ай бұрын
Nah. He's trash
@johnnash297 Жыл бұрын
Like all Kubrick films, multiple viewings are necessary to see let alone understand the layers of his films.
@LukeLovesRose Жыл бұрын
You can say that for many master directors and their work
@deckofcards8710 ай бұрын
I really wish Siskel had lived to see this film. He was a life-long Kubrick fan. One wonders what he would've made of it.
@Master.Debater7 ай бұрын
Who cares? Siskel sucked anyway.
@michaelbirke60505 ай бұрын
I think Gene would have liked it. Probably would have had a few issues with it but Tom and Nicole were excellent. The cinematography was mesmerizing. One of the reviewers here was exactly right. This movie is much more appreciated on the second and third viewings.
@September20044 ай бұрын
He ranked Full Metal Jacket the best film of ‘87 while Ebert gave it a thumbs down. I have no opinion on that film.
@SaintMartins Жыл бұрын
01. Day Of The Fight (1951) short 02. Flying Padre (1951) short 03. The Seafarers (1953) short 04. Fear And Desire (1953) 05. Killer's Kiss (1955) 06. The Killing (1956) 07. Paths Of Glory (1957) 08. Spartacus (1960) 09. Lolita (1962) 10. Dr. Strangelove (1964) 11. 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) 12. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 13. Barry Lyndon (1975) 14. The Shining (1980) 15. Full Metal Jacket (1987) 16. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
@kevinkeels6845 Жыл бұрын
No other director has kept their winning streak intact to the end the way Kubrick did. This is why Tarantino says he will stop after 10 films.
@offspringfan1288 Жыл бұрын
@@kevinkeels6845 James Cameron has the best film resume of all time, never made a flop, and virtually every film he’s made is a landmark in cinema. Cameron > Kubrick any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
@Hexon66 Жыл бұрын
@@offspringfan1288 🤣
@ryanegger4425 Жыл бұрын
@@offspringfan1288 no
@brickforge12849 ай бұрын
@@offspringfan1288I like titanic but no he’s not better than Kubrick
@sdad6378 Жыл бұрын
Kubrick was a master Director. 😎 All his movies are masterpieces.
@maxxxmodelz406110 ай бұрын
I agree. However, I'll say everything from 1957 onward are masterpieces. With the exception of Spartacus. I didn't like that one.
@Blunder038 ай бұрын
@maxxxmodelz4061 It's the only film Kubrick did "for hire".
@jruedas81 Жыл бұрын
One of my favorite Kubrick films.
@shivasirons6159 Жыл бұрын
Paths of glory where kirk Douglas realizes how obscene the general is and says " and you can go to HELL before i apologize to you now or ever again".
@nativeroscoe64 Жыл бұрын
I saw it 5 times when it came out and loved it. The lesson is... Don't tell your married spouse your sexual fantasies.
@user-hk9du6px9x3 ай бұрын
Why
@crazy1234573 Жыл бұрын
This is wonderful to watch now so many years later. We all needed time to let that movie age and grow. I remember when it first came out, no one liked it and the fame of Tom and Nicole over shadowed it. I love this movie.
@danielh5159 Жыл бұрын
i just saw eyes wide shut tonight in nyc, so glad to find this
@yskim26364 күн бұрын
Hey, my junior high D&D group got back together!
@ATMylesАй бұрын
Thank you for posting. I know it was posted a year ago but I’m just seeing it now. I’m always finding buried treasure on your channel.
@bobspence53226 ай бұрын
cant name my favorite. he made his movies his way yes but spartacus is a film he directed, in his own words, for someone else. while not a true kubrick movie, it is a great achievement. watch the docu about the failure to complete hollywoods first epic film "i claudius". i think he made spartacus as a kind of favor for hollywood and to prove that, because he was such a talented leader, a seemingly jinxed project that risked falling into the footsteps of failure managed to instead sprout wings.
@filmbuff2777 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing.
@JohnDoe-tm9wz Жыл бұрын
These guys are not real movie critics...why are they wearing suits and not t-shirts with superhero logos? Also, no Funko pops, no Hot Toys, no Marvel props displayed randomly, no Star Wars posters in the background 🤔🤔🤔 #cinemaisdead
@akfreed6949 Жыл бұрын
You where suits if you work for the newspaper or magazine that isn't Rolling Stone
@Y-two-K Жыл бұрын
I mean, these guys are alright, but they don’t give the cutting-edge deep analysis that you see on The Nerd Crew.
@JohnDoe-tm9wz Жыл бұрын
@@Y-two-K Lol!
@michaelsims1160 Жыл бұрын
There are practically no more real critics worth their salt. My University offered a Masters in criticism. Most people hired these days are 17 year old kids with no knowledge whatsoever.
@akfreed6949 Жыл бұрын
@@michaelsims1160 Tarantino wannabees
@linkbiff1054 Жыл бұрын
Other than Roger, Michael Wilmington was the best critic in this circle. IMO, he should have been Gene Siskel’s permanent replacement after his death.
@StruggleoftheOutsider10 ай бұрын
Nice to see the boys bro down at the lunch table.
@RDRussell2 Жыл бұрын
I had the impression here that Ebert and the production company were auditioning a replacement for poor Gene Siskel. Do you think these other 4 wouldn't be thinking that? "Oh boy, if I get a job with Roger Ebert, I'm set for life! This is my big chance!" My favorite, by the way, is "A Clockwork Orange."
@upandawaygames Жыл бұрын
They actually auditioned people for quite some time in the form of guest hosts, including even Bill Clinton.
@user-hk9du6px9x3 ай бұрын
I've never watched an SK movie alll the way except eye wide shut.
@sleuthentertainment58729 ай бұрын
Stanley Kubrick was a nouvelle vague master that gave a modern look to the american cinema Nothing would be the same without him
@user-rt9zq8rs9k8 ай бұрын
Eyes Wide Shut us one of Kubrick's best movies . I bought the unrated version of the movie on DVD and couldn't believe why it originally got the NC-17 rating . As it was pointed out in the documentary , This Film Is Not Yet Rated , the unrated version has some pelvic thrusting from the male performers in the secret sex meeting . It was literally about maybe 5 seconds of film footage .
@LukeLovesRose Жыл бұрын
Cool roundtable show.
@justinbergmans36 Жыл бұрын
His independent freedom would have meant zero, if there wasn’t commercial value in his name. In the end, that’s what matters the most, to get a film any traction. You still have to be able to make the studio money whether through the prestige route, or commercial.
@patrickglass93238 ай бұрын
Quite so. Oliver Stone always underlined the emphatically Money-Driven side of Hollywood, notably in his fascinating Q & A at the Oxford Union in 2016 (on You Tube, 61 mins)
@redadamearthАй бұрын
It's true, for all of his reputation and the high art of his films - the vast majority made money for the studios. Even "Barry Lyndon" and "The Shining", which are commonly thought of as "disappointments", theatrically, really weren't. Even "Barry Lyndon" made 3 times its budget, theatrically. Same for "The Shining" - both films were considered "flops", but only because they didn't hit what they were EXPECTED to hit - but they still made money for the studios. In fact, the only film that didn't do well at the box office was "Paths of Glory" and even that earned back its budget, plus some. So for all of his reputation as a time-consuming filmmaker - his budgets never got out of control and he always made them money, even if it wasn't "Star Wars"-level money. He knew how to entertain an audience while making masterpieces for adults at the same time. That's extremely rare. He never made anything that was a "blockbuster" but when you look at the *budgets* he had, they were often low - and his box office, 9 times out of 10, was usually about 3 times his budget. He was able to keep doing what he did because he never asked the studio for too much money and they always knew they'd get it back.
@aretnap3653 Жыл бұрын
I Wonder How Many of Those NewsPapers Are Still Being Printed in Chicago?...🤔
@shivasirons6159 Жыл бұрын
Me too.
@raymondm.9954 Жыл бұрын
Dan was played by a young Stephen Colbert. I wonder if Roger selected "Dr. Strangelove" because it was Gene's favorite film.
@JohnDoe-tm9wz Жыл бұрын
It would have been a nice tribute 🙌🏻
@ronaldh8446 Жыл бұрын
Valid thought. On Ebert's Top 10 favorite movies he included 2001 from the Kubrick canon. I think you're correct.
@rhyancoleman646210 ай бұрын
To lose Gene in February and to lose Stanley Kubrick just 1 month must have been hard on Roger.
@oobrocks Жыл бұрын
I’m w the guy who says “the Beautiful Blue Danube in 2001”. The masterful
@madamebovary7211 Жыл бұрын
God, I miss the late 90s. It was a beautiful time.
@threeminuteshate6 ай бұрын
I talk about this a lot. It was full of so much optimism. Took a single day to make it all evaporate.
@mathiaskanuck67592 ай бұрын
@@threeminuteshateI had an obsession with the late 90s, early 2000s this past winter. WWF Raw is War, woodstock 99, Jack-as$... Something about that era had me thinking about it for weeks straight, like intrusive thoughts. I was only 9 years old in 1999 but it just seemed like a simpler time
@LannieLord2 ай бұрын
Wuhan Lab. @@threeminuteshate
@LannieLord2 ай бұрын
2020.
@aretnap3653 Жыл бұрын
Had I Known 'Dr.StrangeLove' was a Kubrick Film, I Woulda Watched it on TurnerClassicMovies Yesterday Evening! (8-30-22)
@hungwilliam44 Жыл бұрын
Oh I caught that. It was still the same :)
@linkbiff1054 Жыл бұрын
I saw it last night! Wonderful movie
@finnsterling6514 Жыл бұрын
3:04 😳😳😳 Heard that music and was shocked to learn that Kubrick had something to do with PINK FLAMINGOS. Yikes. And whew!
@just_joe.__19974 ай бұрын
A song being in both pink flamingos and full metal jacket doesnt mean that kubrick had anything to do with the former movie does it
@LannieLord2 ай бұрын
That was VERY very very. rehearsed ! Thank God for podcasts....
@ATMylesАй бұрын
Ah, so it wasn’t just me.
@quarantinebored14275 күн бұрын
Rehearsed but you can tell they seemed nervous on camera
@joeharris3878 Жыл бұрын
I've wondered for years why Kubrick paired Shelley Duvall with Jack Nicholson that is, why such an actress playing a dull character against a dynamic actor playing a complicated character. Made me think about Kier Dullea's dull astronaut vs the star of 2001, HAL. It wasn't until I saw Eyes Wide Shut that I was certain something was going on. But why did Kubrick do that? Why did he purposely use low energy actors (one could say second rate) juxtaposed with a talented actor?
@knownpleasures Жыл бұрын
Because opposites attract and in theory makes it a more dynamic movie
@warriorv9359 Жыл бұрын
True True badass film and evreybody in it especially sidney pollack
@Munkylaw Жыл бұрын
I swear he says everybody fucking knows about the bird 😂 but it’s everybody’s talking now about the bird.
@hungwilliam44 Жыл бұрын
My favorite part of EWS is the scene when he argues with his wife. He does a WTF-is-wrong-with-you so well it just cracks me up. I'd love to see him haranguing people on set when he makes movies. I wonder if he was channeling his impatience with Stanley in his performance. Hmmm..
@ritabook7601 Жыл бұрын
Tom Cruise can't act and plays essentially the same character over and over. He always repeats his lines in lieu of emotion.
@hungwilliam44 Жыл бұрын
@@ritabook7601 Hmmm. Yeah not a lot of range but he certainly can act. Rain Man, Born on 4th of July, Jerry Maguire?
@RideAcrossTheRiver Жыл бұрын
@@ritabook7601 Which is perfect for Kubrick's method, but guess you never saw _Risky Business._
@lhcarter7 ай бұрын
Vanilla Sky another good one from Cruise. Plus War of the Worlds
@ministerofdarkness Жыл бұрын
I bet a few years later these guys all would recommend Barry Lyndon.
@xpindy15 күн бұрын
Barry Lyndon shares the same fatal casting flaw as this film. You must overcome it to get at the treasure.
@guaddv7 ай бұрын
At what point did the mask disappear? Tom takes it off, and is holding on to it. So how did those creeps get a hold of it? How did it end up in their hands?
@ChiGuy18376 ай бұрын
This film was much deeper than the critics let on
@RideAcrossTheRiver2 ай бұрын
What? Who cares what critics say?
@LukeLovesRose Жыл бұрын
What do you think it wouldve been like if Kubrick got to work with Leonardo DiCaprio? I think Kubrick wouldve had very little patience with Leo's more bratty personality tropes. But I think the end result wouldve been really interesting. I mean, I never thought he would work with Tom Cruise and look how that turned out
@ronaldh8446 Жыл бұрын
Dann Gire comes off as so overly-rehearsed and very stiff. This was a great episode. Even though I disagreed with him often, I really miss Siskel's perspective on this movie.
@user-hk9du6px9x3 ай бұрын
Exspermental?
@knownpleasures Жыл бұрын
I need to get this on DVD 📀, the film that is. Honourable mention to Sydney Pollack who is riveting in the movie. The only weakness is Nicole Kidman who isn’t up to scratch for a film of this calibre
@Brad-zv4sv Жыл бұрын
Go for the uncensored blu ray version
@StruggleoftheOutsider10 ай бұрын
what a way to shortchange Barry Lyndon
@racookster Жыл бұрын
8:46 - "...to a secret, private orgy..." I've always found it strange that critics called it an "orgy." It sure doesn't look as if anyone is having fun. That isn't an orgy; it's a ritual, and something seems to have drawn the good doctor into it. From the moment he leaves his apartment, the laws of probability go crazy on his ass. Every encounter he has is sexually-charged. There's no less a supernatural element to Eyes Wide Shut than there is to The Shining.
@LichenAndMoss Жыл бұрын
The lamestream media with all their "orgy" talk.
@littlekingtrashmouth9219 Жыл бұрын
Just keep cranking em out and never mind
@henrimatisse7481 Жыл бұрын
I never saw this movie and after hearing from these critics how Tom Cruise (is that his real name?) was a shallow participant, It makes me speculate that Scientology David Miskovich had a role whose power exceeded Kubrick's. And I ran across this: The brilliant director Stanley Kubrick died of a heart attack on 9 March 1999 at his English estate near Hertfordshire, according to the official version. Kubrick's death is still a mystery plaguing major European tabloids. The director died four days after the end of the editing period of his latest and most enigmatic film Eyes Wide Shut, starring then-weds Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. The film follows the sexually charged adventures of Dr. Bill Harford, who is shocked when his wife, Alice, reveals that she had contemplated having an affair a year earlier. It was Kidman in July 2002's interview with the American newspaper National Enquirer who transparently hinted that Kubrick passed away not by choice. According to the actress, the director called her two hours before the official time of his sudden death. He asked her not to come to Hertfordshire where, as he put it, "we will all be poisoned so fast that we do not have time to even sneeze." After Kidman's revelations in the European press, there was speculation that Kubrick could have been poisoned by the secret societies, which include members of the Western economic, political and cultural elite. Or the Scientologists? Cruise filed for divorce from Kidman in 2001 at the urging or command of the society. Kidman was pregnant at the time and miscarried at the news In Eyes Wide Shut, the centerpiece of the film is a colossal ritual at a fashionable estate near New York City. Kubrick wanted to show that the secret societies rule the Western world today. National Association of Theater Owners in the US withheld permission to distribute the picture for almost four months. Since Kubrick was no longer alive, the orgy scene was edited out. The public was fooled by information that the argument was over the openness of the erotic scenes. So what do we think about that?
@akfreed6949 Жыл бұрын
I e seen both versions and the difference can be so stupidly subtle y your point of view . It was just a couple shots that added some standing people to obstruct natural thrusting of the men in the simulated sex scenes . I think the bad reviews were propaganda to protect the evil corporate rulers and their evil wrongdoing . I actually love the movie and NOT because of the sexual content . I love watching his camera work .
@michaelsims1160 Жыл бұрын
Completely untrue clap trap. I don’t know where you got that stuff from but the version Kubrick sent to the studio was the version your seeing now. There was no editing.
@akfreed6949 Жыл бұрын
@@michaelsims1160 in the documentary This Film is Not Rated , they showed 2 different clips of the orgy scene . One clip shows the pelvic thrusting from a male to the female . In the "edited" clip they added some people standing in front of the two "lovers" to obscure the thrusting . So , there was SOME editing .
@michaelsutliff6817 Жыл бұрын
What is it with you people? You are CONSTANTLY looking for conspiracy theories. The vast majority of the time, they don't exist. Are you a troll? Just bored?
@HoboInTaiwan11 ай бұрын
Is there an online link to the Kidman newspaper interview? Can't find it anywhere
@funnyguy7574 Жыл бұрын
an NC-17 would worked for a movie like this WB and Disney Touchstone wouldn’t do it Fox would have
@xpindy15 күн бұрын
One of the reason this film takes multiple viewings is the tragic casting of Tom Cruise as...well, an adult...he's not even convincing as the husband of his real life wife (who wipes the floor with him). By the second or third viewing the fatal flaw is baked into the cake- similiar to Barry Lyndon- and you can move on to the what the film is about. We are only left to imagine what a great actor would have done with the role.
@conshea73827 ай бұрын
Always said they named thus movie wrong they misspelled shut substitute the u with an i yeah that’s the ticket
@vincenzollamasАй бұрын
Eyes Wide Shut took 400 days to shoot! a world record
@drewbrown21759 ай бұрын
The Critics Legion of Doom 😂
@redadamearthАй бұрын
I still think "Barry Lyndon" is his best film.
@tonyc8752 Жыл бұрын
Fidelio
@ronniebishop2496 Жыл бұрын
These four guests are way out on their criticism.
@bobspence53226 ай бұрын
imagine if tarantino had made it.
@RideAcrossTheRiver2 ай бұрын
Gunfire every twenty minutes, with soundtracks taken from other films, then a final gun battle.
@Ian-ky5hf8 ай бұрын
Nymphet? I believe you mean a child!
@stevestarr9769 Жыл бұрын
I've seen EWS three or four times, and my feeling is that if anyone but Kubrick directed it, it would be a 2.5 stars out of 4 movie. Their adoration for Kubrick deeply clouds their appreciation for this movie.
@edwardwhite4015 Жыл бұрын
I love Kubrick films, but EWS is unwatchable, I just don't get it. The only good part is the scenes with LeeLee Sobieski because it has Kubrick's wicked sense of humor. Of course the cinematography is gorgeous.
@jackzaccardi1896 Жыл бұрын
EWS is monumental.
@sammontano5109 Жыл бұрын
The whole first half of the film is "oooooh, we are seeing Nicole Kidman's body..." I found it mostly boring.
@jjgreen520611 ай бұрын
Eye’s wide shut is Cruise’s best film in my opinion. And Kubrick’s
@Champagne_Dior9 ай бұрын
Agreed
@Abr0225759 ай бұрын
Cocktail?
@jabrokneetoeknee64488 ай бұрын
That’s crazy talk. One of Kubrick’s worst and it doesn’t even crack top 5 movies with Cruise
@gheller22617 ай бұрын
I think Cruise's best performance was Born on The Fourth of July.
@lhcarter7 ай бұрын
I think Kubrick was trying to tell us something about the upper crust of society.
@coylewho7 ай бұрын
All these guys are talking about making the film, not what you saw in the theatre. You saw the final result. They are talking about the influences of why this film was made. Stretch and yaaaaawwwwn.
@cejannuzi2 ай бұрын
Over-rated. But 2001 and Barry Lyndon were great films.
@davidhealy4051 Жыл бұрын
Trash movie by creepy director and reviewed by creeps. No wonder Cruise and kidmon divorced right after they made it.
@RideAcrossTheRiver Жыл бұрын
How many accounts do you have? Stick to Marvel
@michaelsims1160 Жыл бұрын
Why don’t you just say your dumb and didn’t get it David?
@mikefallopian3191 Жыл бұрын
Kubrick's worst film by far. It all adds up to....nothing.
@highwaystar3780 Жыл бұрын
Pure Trash
@RideAcrossTheRiver Жыл бұрын
Stick to Marvel
@wet-read Жыл бұрын
Some films are more about the payoff, the conclusion, and others are more about the journey. EWS is definitely the latter IMO. The conclusion is quite abrupt and seemingly frivolous, but I think it makes sense given what came before. The events/journey of the Harford character are more interesting and powerful than any conclusion could be, also IMO.
@michaelsims1160 Жыл бұрын
You need to look at it from the right angle. Then it makes sense. Not everything you see happened in the real world. Most Kubrick movies are panned the first 5 years because they don’t follow a standard narrative. Then they get re evaluated over the next decade until people realize what they were watching was actually a masterpiece. Kubrick responded to criticism of his movies by saying “I spend a decade thinking about these things and making them. The critics and audiences spend 2 hrs watching it. Is it a real surprise they miss the point”. Kubrick movies definitely need and deserve more then one viewing.
@iluvmylovebirdandmybudgiet7729 Жыл бұрын
it had the highest second week drop in box office of any film that year....
@MrMaenambeachАй бұрын
This was Kubrick’s worst movie, mostly because of the casting.
@gheller22617 ай бұрын
As Roger went through the list of films, my only thought is how incredibly overrated Kubrick was as a director.
@pyrobison20026 ай бұрын
Hmm
@rjm7921 Жыл бұрын
What a bunch of nerds🤣
@magarac99 Жыл бұрын
4l gasbags
@mattdeans9873 Жыл бұрын
When a man puts a piece of celluloid and his ego as a master director above the mental health and safety of the actors that make his films succeed, as he did with Shelley Duvall, I have ZERO respect or admiration for the man or his products.
@Brad-zv4sv Жыл бұрын
Bad take
@ronniebishop2496 Жыл бұрын
These actors had mental issues way before they work with Kubrick.
@mattdeans9873 Жыл бұрын
@@ronniebishop2496 ya... right...zzzzz
@ronniebishop2496 Жыл бұрын
@@mattdeans9873 Especially Shelly Duvall, zzzzzzz snake 🐍