134-528: William Todd Field (born February 24, 1964) is an American filmmaker and actor. He is known for directing In the Bedroom (2001), Little Children (2006), and Tár (2022), which were nominated for a combined fourteen Academy Awards . Field has personally received six Academy Award nominations for his films; two for Best Picture , two for Best Adapted Screenplay , one for Best Director , and one for Best Original Screenplay . Before establishing himself as
268-508: A Penguin Classics edition of Dream Story , Raphael wrote that "Fridolin is not declared to be a Jew, but his feelings of cowardice, for failing to challenge his aggressor, echo the uneasiness of Austrian Jews in the face of Gentile provocation." The novella is set during the Carnival , when people often wear masks to parties. The party that both husband and wife attend at the opening of the story
402-630: A scriptural recitation from the Bhagavad Gita , which Pook took from a previous Yogeswaran recording. South African Hindu Mahasabha, a Hindu group, protested against the scripture being used, Warner Bros. issued a public apology, and hired the singer to record a similar track to replace the chant. The party at Ziegler's house features rearrangements of love songs such as " When I Fall in Love " and " It Had to Be You ", used in increasingly ironic ways considering how Alice and Bill flirt with other people in
536-401: A viola played by Pook herself – with no brass or woodwinds as Pook "just couldn't justify these other textures", particularly as she wanted the tracks played on dialogue-heavy scenes to be "subliminal" and felt such instruments would be intrusive. Another track in the orgy, "Migrations", features a Tamil song sung by Manickam Yogeswaran , a Carnatic singer. The original cut featured
670-485: A "complex story about marriage and sexuality". High-Def Digest also called it an erotic thriller. However, reviewing the film at AboutFilm.com, Carlo Cavagna regards this as a misleading classification, as does Leo Goldsmith, writing at notcoming.com, and the review on Blu-ray.com. Writing in TV Guide , Maitland McDonagh writes "No one familiar with the cold precision of Kubrick's work will be surprised that this isn't
804-533: A Christmas party hosted by a patient, Victor Ziegler, Bill reunites with his old medical school classmate Nick Nightingale, who now plays piano professionally. An older Hungarian guest attempts to seduce Alice, while two young models try to seduce Bill. Ziegler interrupts with news of an overdose by Mandy, a young woman Victor was having sex with. Bill aids in Mandy's recovery. The next night, while smoking marijuana , Alice and Bill discuss their unfulfilled temptations. Bill
938-465: A Jury Prize at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival . Other short films he made outside of school were exhibited at venues overseas and domestically at the Museum of Modern Art . Field began his filmmaking career in 2001 when he wrote and directed In the Bedroom , a film based on Andre Dubus 's short story " Killings ". (Kubrick and Dubus were among Field's mentors; both died right before the production of In
1072-531: A Motion Picture – Drama and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress . Moreover, the film was chosen by the American Film Institute as one of the top ten films of the year while Spacek's performance was named the best female performance of the year. In coastal Camden, Maine , Matt and Ruth Fowler enjoy a happy marriage and a good relationship with their son Frank, a recent college graduate home for
1206-527: A categorization disputed by others. It is classified as such in the book The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema , by Linda Ruth Williams , and was described as such in news articles about Cruise and Kidman's lawsuit over assertions that they saw a sex therapist during filming. The positive review in Combustible Celluloid describes it as an erotic thriller upon first viewing, but actually
1340-450: A character with no counterpart in the novella: Ziegler, who represents both the high wealth and prestige to which Bill Harford aspires, and a connection between Bill's two worlds (his regular life, and the secret society organizing the ball). Critic Randy Rasmussen interprets Ziegler as representing Bill's worst self, much as in other Kubrick films; the title character in Dr. Strangelove represents
1474-485: A church in Baia Mare , played backwards – as a reference track. Kubrick then called the composer and asked if she had anything else "weird" like that song, which was reworked for the final cut of the scene, with the title "Masked Ball". Pook ended up composing and recording four pieces of music, many times based on her previous work, totaling 24 minutes. The composer's work ended up having mostly string instruments – including
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#17328844317881608-683: A director than I ever felt with those previous films." Field's third film, Tár , starring Cate Blanchett as the fictional conductor/composer Lydia Tár, premiered at the 79th Venice International Film Festival , where it competed for the Golden Lion and Queer Lion , with Blanchett winning the Volpi Cup for Best Actress . The film had a limited theatrical release in the United States on October 7, 2022, before its wide release on October 28, 2022, and International theatrical release that began first in
1742-536: A director. He has the magnificent obsession of the natural-born filmmaker." Anthony Quinn of The Independent stated, "Field has pulled off something here I thought no American filmmaker would ever manage again: he makes violence feel genuinely shocking." For his work on In the Bedroom , Field was named Director of the Year by the National Board of Review , and his script was awarded Best Original Screenplay . The film
1876-554: A filmmaker, Field appeared as an actor in such films as Victor Nuñez 's Ruby in Paradise (1993), Nicole Holofcener 's Walking and Talking (1996), and Stanley Kubrick 's Eyes Wide Shut (1999). He also co-created the concept for bubble gum brand Big League Chew . Field was born in Pomona, California , where his family ran a poultry farm. When Field turned two, his family moved to Portland, Oregon , where his father went to work as
2010-513: A fisherman and to be near Natalie and her kids. Natalie's ex-husband, Richard Strout, tries to find a way into his ex-wife and children's lives, going to increasingly violent lengths to get his intentions across to Natalie, including assaulting Frank. Frank rushes to Natalie's home one evening after receiving a frightened phone call from one of her children. He arrives to find the living room trashed and Natalie in distress. She tells him Richard just left, but he returns almost immediately. Natalie takes
2144-510: A high-class revenge thriller, an ode to the futility of vengeance or almost anything in between." Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic wrote, " In the Bedroom leaves us with the happy knowledge that with Field the American film scene, continually deplored as scraggly, can boast another admirable directing talent. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times stated in his review that it
2278-471: A jazz club. Nick describes a masked orgy in a mansion outside New York City, at which he will play piano blindfolded, and gives Bill the password to enter the party. Bill goes to a costume store owned by a patient of his to buy an outfit to fit in at the masked orgy. Finding the costume store now owned by a man named Milich, he offers money to rent a costume, where he and Milich find Milich's young daughter engaged in sexual activity with two older men. Milich locks
2412-448: A miniseries, the film, based on Tom Perrotta 's novel of the same name , made its premiere at the 2006 New York Film Festival. In his roundup "Best of 2006", A.O. Scott of The New York Times wrote: "The first time you see Todd Field's adaptation of Tom Perrotta's novel, you may remark on the director's impressive control over the unruly source material and the emotional agility of the cast, Kate Winslet in particular. The second time,
2546-665: A music scholarship, but left after his freshman year favoring a move to New York to study acting with Robert X. Modica at his renowned Carnegie Hall Studio. Soon after, Field began performing with the Ark Theatre Company as both an actor and musician. Field first appeared in motion pictures after Woody Allen cast him in Radio Days (1987), and went on to work with some of America's greatest filmmakers, including Stanley Kubrick , Victor Nuñez , and Carl Franklin . Kevin Thomas of
2680-433: A near-hypnotic atmosphere of commingled desire and dread." Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club was also highly positive, arguing that "the film's primal, almost religious intensity and power is primarily derived from its multifaceted realization that disobeying the dictates of society and your conscience can be both terrifying and exhilarating. ... The film's depiction of sexual depravity and amorality could easily venture into
2814-472: A photo he saw in Richard's apartment of him with Natalie in a loving embrace, but cannot explain why it affected him. At length Ruth gets up to make coffee, calling "Matt, do you want coffee?" from the kitchen, but he doesn't answer. Matt removes the bandage from his finger and finds the wound still there. Principal photography began on 22 June 2000 and completed on 6 July 2000. In the Bedroom made its debut at
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#17328844317882948-655: A salesman, and his mother became a school librarian. At an early age, he became interested in performing sleight-of-hand and later music. As a child in Portland, Field was a batboy for the Portland Mavericks , a single A independent minor league baseball team owned by Hollywood actor Bing Russell . Kurt Russell , Bing's son and later an actor in his own right, also played for the Portland Mavericks during this time. Field and Mavericks pitching coach Rob Nelson created
3082-404: A secluded cottage for a weekend, but Ruth is distant and Matt begins to drink heavily. At Richard's bail hearing, Natalie is pressed by his lawyer over whether she saw the shooting, as she initially testified when police arrived on the scene, and she tearfully shakes her head, as she only heard what happened. The tension between Matt and Ruth increases when their lawyer informs them that because of
3216-449: A strong campaign of secrecy helped by Kubrick always working with a short team on set. Outdoor locations included Hatton Garden for a Greenwich Village street, Hamleys for the toy store from the film's ending, and Mentmore Towers and Elveden Hall in Elveden, Suffolk , England for the mansion. Larry Smith, who had first served as a gaffer on both Barry Lyndon and The Shining ,
3350-686: A very particular way on certain material that was probably very tough to get made." Later, when asked if he would ever consider reviving any of his past projects, Field replied "[They're] kind of like a family plot. You have these little headstones , and you have a passing acquaintance with and occasionally drop flowers on, but I don't want to dig any of them up." Over those same years Field worked in advertising, directing spots for such brands as Xbox , Captain Morgan , Corona , BMW , NASCAR and GE . Reflecting on his advertising work over these years he stated "I've been directing constantly, I feel much stronger as
3484-408: Is "one of the best-directed films of the year" and that "every performance has a perfect tone". He listed In the Bedroom as his third best film of the year 2001. Rolling Stone ' s Peter Travers called the film "an uncommonly good movie" that "will hit you hard." He also mentioned that " Oscar would be a fool" if it ignores Spacek and Wilkinson's "career-crowning performances". Among
3618-488: Is Jewish, wanted to keep the Jewish background of the protagonists, but Kubrick disagreed and removed details that would identify characters as Jewish. Kubrick determined Bill should be a " Harrison Ford -ish goy " and created the surname of Harford as an allusion to the actor. In the film, Bill is taunted with homophobic slurs. In the novella, the taunters are members of an anti-Semitic college fraternity. In an introduction to
3752-506: Is a Carnival Masquerade ball , whereas the film's story begins at Christmas time. In the novella, the party (which is sparsely attended) uses "Denmark" as the password for entrance; that is significant in that Albertina had her infatuation with her soldier in Denmark; the film's password is "Fidelio". In early drafts of the screenplay, the password was "Fidelio Rainbow". Jonathan Rosenbaum noted that both passwords echo elements of one member of
3886-455: Is concerned about Nick's disappearance and the death of Mandy, whom he correctly identifies as the masked orgy participant who sacrificed herself for him. Ziegler claims Nick is safely back with his family in Seattle and that Mandy died from an accidental overdose due to drug addiction and not through any foul play. Bill returns home to find the rented mask on his pillow and confesses to Alice about
4020-433: Is married to Ruth Fowler (Spacek), a music teacher. Their son Frank (Stahl) is involved in a love affair with an older single mother, Natalie Strout (Tomei). As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of an unimaginable tragedy. The title refers to the rear compartment of a lobster trap known as the "bedroom" and how it can hold only two lobsters before
4154-499: Is not jealous of other men's attraction to Alice, believing women to be naturally faithful. Alice admits to fantasizing about a naval officer she met on vacation and considering leaving Bill and Helena. Bill is disturbed before being called to a patient's house. The patient's daughter, Marion, tries to seduce Bill, but he resists. After leaving Marion's, Bill meets a prostitute named Domino. When Alice calls, Bill backs out and pays Domino anyway after only kissing her. He then meets Nick at
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4288-492: Is only 153 minutes, as opposed to the 159 minutes of other available DVD and Blu-ray versions. This is due to the transfer being done at 25 frames per second rather than 24 as shot; no actual footage was cut. On October 23, 2007, Warner released Eyes Wide Shut in a special edition DVD, plus the HD DVD and Blu-ray disc formats. This is the first home video release that presents the film in anamorphic 1.78:1 (16:9) format (the film
4422-405: Is represented through its connection to the characters in the film; as Tim Kreider points out, this can be seen through the masks in the prostitute's apartment and her being renamed as " Domino " in the film, which is a type of Venetian Mask. Unused early poster designs for the film by Kubrick's daughter Katharina used the motif of Venetian masks, but were rejected by the studio because they obscured
4556-546: Is set around Vienna after the turn of the century. The main characters are a couple named Fridolin and Albertina. The couple's home is a typical suburban middle-class home. Like the protagonist of the novel, Schnitzler was Jewish, lived in Vienna, and was a doctor, although he left medicine to write. Kubrick frequently removed references to the Jewishness of characters in the novels he adapted. In Eyes Wide Shut , Frederic Raphael, who
4690-440: Is summoned to the bathroom to deal with an apparent overdose, as he climbs the spiral staircase he passes Giulio Bergonzoli's sculpture Gli amori degli angeli (The Loves of Angels) which is at the foot of the staircase. This sculpture is said to be inspired by a poem titled The Loves of The Angels by 19th-century poet Thomas Moore , the poem itself describes the story of three angels who fall in love with mortal women and share
4824-461: Is walking through a hospital hallway towards the end of the film, he walks past Jann Haworth's painting Aunt Gurdi Burning (1995). The painting is oil on canvas and mounted on a screen, it is in the permanent collection of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital where the scenes were filmed. Warner Bros. heavily promoted Eyes Wide Shut , while following Kubrick's secrecy campaign – to the point that
4958-580: The Los Angeles Times summarized Field's acting career in his review of Broken Vessels (1999): "Field has a deceptive facade of all-American clean-cut looks that allows him to suggest a wide range of emotions and thoughts behind such a regular-guy appearance; in Ruby in Paradise he expressed such uncommon decency and intelligence you had to wonder how Ashley Judd 's hardscrabble Ruby could ever have considered letting him get away. In Eyes Wide Shut he's
5092-525: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer compared Field's direction to Kubrick 's, saying that it "manages to feel both highly controlled and effortlessly spontaneous at the same time; and his lifting of the facade of this picturesque, Norman Rockwell setting is carried out with surgical precision". He further mentioned that "like Kubrick, Field doesn't make any moral judgments about his characters, and his film remains stubbornly enigmatic. It can be read as
5226-484: The 74th Academy Awards , including Best Picture , Best Actress (for Spacek), Best Actor (for Wilkinson) and Best Supporting Actress (for Tomei). The film also earned Spacek and Wilkinson nominations for Best Actress and Best Actor respectively at the 55th British Academy Film Awards and the 8th Screen Actors Guild Awards . Spacek's performance in the film earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in
5360-544: The 75th annual DGA Awards saying, "Every detail matters in this film. Nothing is not deliberate or full of intention. It's directed with such perfectly controlled mayhem and glee by Todd, it's really hard not to drool as another director." On Josh Olson and Joe Dante 's The Movies That Made Me podcast, Field listed ten of his favorite films, which included Man with a Movie Camera (1929), The Big Parade (1925), The Servant (1963), I Am Cuba (1964), Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965), Butch Cassidy and
5494-561: The Franklin Schaffner Alumni Medal. The March 2023 issue of New York magazine listed In the Bedroom alongside Citizen Kane , Sunset Boulevard , Dr. Strangelove , Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , The Conversation , Nashville , Taxi Driver , The Elephant Man , Pulp Fiction , There Will Be Blood , Roma , and Tár , also directed by Field, as "The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at
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5628-520: The Guinness World Record for the longest continuous film shoot. Kubrick died of a heart attack six days after showing the final cut of Eyes Wide Shut to Warner Bros. , making it the final film he directed. He reportedly considered it his "greatest contribution to the art of cinema". In order to ensure a theatrical R rating in the United States, Warner Bros. digitally altered several sexually explicit scenes during post-production. This version
5762-600: The Mexican Revolution , which at different times was set to star Leonardo DiCaprio , Christian Bale and Daniel Craig . It had also been reported that Field might direct a coming-of-age script set in the 1970s Northwest based on his experiences with the Minor League Baseball team the Portland Mavericks , that Kurt Russell was involved in. Speaking publicly for the first time in sixteen years, Field told The New York Times in 2022, "I set my sights in
5896-762: The New York Film Festival stated, "I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie quite like Tár . Field balances Apollonian restraint with Dionysian frenzy . Tár is meticulously controlled and also scarily wild. Field finds a new way of posing the perennial question about separating the artist from the art, a question that he suggests can only be answered by another question: are you crazy? We don't care about Tár because she's an artist. We care about her because she's art." Alissa Wilkinson, writing for Vox , observed: "Not to be hyperbolic, but it might be perfect. Todd Field has tuned his themes so brilliantly. You can't just half-watch Tár, it demands your full attention. That's
6030-645: The Warner Village cinema in Leicester Square . The film's wide opening occurred the following week-end, and topped the U.K. charts with £1,189,672. The international performances for Eyes Wide Shut were more positive, with Kubrick's long-time assistant and brother-in-law Jan Harlan stating that "It was badly received in the Anglo-Saxon world, but it was very well received in the Latin world and Japan. In Italy, it
6164-469: The "Satanic" mansion-party at Somerton is the only set in the film without a Christmas tree, stating that "Almost every set is suffused with the dreamlike, hazy glow of colored lights and tinsel." Furthermore, he argues that "Eyes Wide Shut, though it was released in summer, was the Christmas movie of 1999." Noting that Kubrick has shown viewers the dark side of Christmas consumerism, Louise Kaplan states that
6298-445: The 'erotic thriller' that the press maintained nor an easily identifiable 'Kubrick film ' ". DVD Talk similarly dissociates the film from this genre. In addition to relocating the story from Vienna in the 1900s to New York City in the 1990s, Kubrick changed the time-frame of Schnitzler's story from Mardi Gras to Christmas. Michael Koresky believed Kubrick did this because of the rejuvenating symbolism of Christmas. Mario Falsetto, on
6432-483: The 1960s, considering it a perfect text for a film adaptation about sexual relations. He revived the project in the 1990s when he hired writer Frederic Raphael to help him with the adaptation. The film, which was mostly shot in England, apart from some exterior establishing shots , includes a detailed recreation of exterior Greenwich Village street scenes made at Pinewood Studios . The film's production, at 400 days, holds
6566-447: The 2001 Sundance Film Festival . In a 2022 The New Yorker profile, director Todd Field recalled that when the film was acquired by Miramax Films , he was devastated, concerned that his film would be heavily re-edited by Harvey Weinstein . Field called Tom Cruise , a personal friend (and cousin of In the Bedroom actor William Mapother ), who advised him not to give Weinstein any pushback, allow him to extensively re-edit, wait until
6700-523: The Bedroom In the Bedroom is a 2001 American drama film directed by Todd Field from a screenplay by Field and Robert Festinger, based on the 1979 short story " Killings " by Andre Dubus . It stars Sissy Spacek , Tom Wilkinson , Nick Stahl , Marisa Tomei , and William Mapother . The film centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler (Wilkinson) is a doctor practicing in Maine and
6834-505: The Bedroom was the second highest-grossing film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival from 2000 to 2009, after Napoleon Dynamite . The film grossed a worldwide total of $ 44.8 million. It went on to become, at the time, the highest-grossing non- IMAX film in history never to reach the top 10 in a given week, and also one of the most successful films in history, with an expense-to-profit ratio of 1:25. Upon its release,
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#17328844317886968-483: The Bedroom .) In the Bedroom was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture , Best Actor ( Tom Wilkinson , his first nomination), Best Actress ( Sissy Spacek , her sixth), Supporting Actress ( Marisa Tomei , her second), and Best Adapted Screenplay . The film was shot in Rockland, Maine , a New England town where Field resides. The house where he, his wife (Serena Rathbun), and their four children live
7102-525: The DVD. Eyes Wide Shut received generally positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 76% based on 160 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Kubrick's intense study of the human psyche yields an impressive cinematic work." Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 69 out of 100 based on 34 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Over 50 critics listed
7236-779: The Grinnel cabin, where Willis is waiting with another vehicle. He begins to load Richard's belongings, but Matt hesitates, then shoots Richard, killing him. Willis admonishes Matt for not following their plan to kill Richard in the woods, and Matt responds that he couldn't wait. They bury Richard's body deep in the woods but are stuck unexpectedly at a bridge crossing on their return home. Willis laments that this cost them nearly an hour, meaning they will arrive back in town just after sunrise instead of in darkness. Matt returns home to find Ruth awake. She asks, "Did you do it?" Matt appears troubled and unresponsive. He climbs into bed and turns away from her. She asks if he's okay, and Matt haltingly describes
7370-562: The Oscars". The March 2024 issue of IndieWire listed In the Bedroom and Tár , also directed by Field, as two of the "Best Picture Nominees that Deserved to win the Oscar." The film was released on DVD in 2002 in a bare-bones edition containing no extras or director's commentary. When Field was asked by the New York Times why this was the case, he said, "Once a film is made available to
7504-521: The Oscars". Field went silent for five years before resurfacing with Little Children in 2006. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including two for the actors: Kate Winslet (her fifth nomination, and with it a record for the youngest actor to be nominated for five Academy Awards) and Jackie Earle Haley (his first nomination and first major role in over 15 years). With just two films, Field had garnered five Academy Award nominations for his actors and three for himself. Initially conceived as
7638-471: The Sundance Kid (1969), Murmur of the Heart (1971), Opening Night (1977), The Meetings of Anna (1978) and No End (1985). Field has cited George Roy Hill , Alan J. Pakula , John Ford , Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg as the directors who inspired him when he was a young person. Directed Academy Award performances Field has directed multiple Oscar nominated performances. In
7772-446: The UK on 13 January 2023. Tár received six nominations for the 95th Academy Awards , including Best Picture , Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Field, and Best Actress for Blanchett, and five nominations from the 76th British Academy Film Awards , including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Sound, and Best Screenplay of the Year. For his work on Tár , Field
7906-770: The Year by the New York Film Critics Circle , the Los Angeles Film Critics Association , the London Film Critics' Circle as well as the National Society of Film Critics . More critics listed the film Best of the Year than any other released in 2022, including The Atlantic , Entertainment Weekly , The Guardian , The Hollywood Reporter , Screen Daily , Vanity Fair , and Variety ; plus, IndieWire 's annual poll of 165 critics worldwide who also named Field "Best Director of
8040-483: The Year" and his script "Best Screenplay." Owen Gleiberman in his Venice Film Festival Daily Variety review wrote: "Let me say right up front: It's the work of a master filmmaker... Tár is not a judgement so much as a statement you can make your own judgment about. The statement is: We're in a new world." A. O. Scott of The New York Times writing from the Telluride Film Festival and later from
8174-528: The apartment, Bill is followed by a mysterious figure. He discovers from a newspaper article that an ex-beauty queen has died from an overdose and identifies her as Mandy at the morgue. Later, Ziegler summons him and admits to being a guest at the orgy. Ziegler reveals that there was no second password at all, and failing to know this is what outed Bill as an outsider. Ziegler assures Bill that the secret society only aims to intimidate him into silence but implies that they are capable of taking action if necessary. Bill
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#17328844317888308-573: The band had become a proving-ground and regular stop for Stan Kenton and Mel Tormé when they were looking for new players. It was here Field played trombone along with his friend, trumpeter and future Grammy Award Winner Chris Botti . During this same time he also worked as a non-union projectionist at a second-run movie theater. Field graduated with his class from Centennial High School on Portland's east side and briefly attended Southern Oregon State College (now Southern Oregon University ) in Ashland on
8442-436: The boat out to catch lobsters to feel a connection with Frank, but he struggles with it and is pinched by a lobster, leaving a bleeding wound on one finger which Matt bandages. Natalie approaches Ruth at work and attempts to apologize, but Ruth slaps her before dismissively returning to her work. Natalie leaves in tears. Later that day, Ruth runs into Richard at the grocery store. When she returns home, an argument erupts between
8576-445: The boys upstairs, and Frank insists through the locked front door that Richard leave. He feigns doing so, only to break in through the back door with a handgun; in the ensuing scuffle, Frank is shot and killed. Though equally devastated, Matt and Ruth grieve in different ways, with Matt putting on a brave face and quickly returning to work, while Ruth becomes reclusive and quiet. The couple retreat with friends Willis and Katie Grinnel to
8710-430: The change from Natalie's original testimony, Richard was allowed out on bail, and his defense will argue that Frank's death was an accident, meaning Richard will most likely be charged with accidental manslaughter and only serve five to ten years in prison. The couple begin to see Richard around town. Matt approaches Natalie at work to check in on her and the two have a well-intentioned but strained conversation. Matt takes
8844-505: The character of "Red Cloak" who simultaneously serves as Grand Inquisitor and King of Carnival. As such, Nelson argues that the sex ritual is a symbolic mirror of the darker truth behind the façade of Victor Ziegler's earlier Christmas party. Carolin Ruwe, in her book Symbols in Stanley Kubrick's Movie 'Eyes Wide Shut' , argues that the mask is the prime symbol of the film. Its symbolic meaning
8978-593: The couple in which they emotionally savage each other; Matt lambastes Ruth for being overbearing in Frank's youth, while Ruth chastises Matt for showing little grief for their deceased son and encouraging his relationship with Natalie because of his own vicarious lust for her. After a young girl selling candy for a fundraiser interrupts them, Matt takes back what he said to Ruth, who apologizes in turn and, breaking down, tells Matt about seeing Natalie and Richard. They embrace and find common ground in their grief. Matt and Willis spend
9112-403: The couple's behavior, though in opposite ways. The party in the novella consists mostly of nude ballroom dancing. In the novella, the woman who "redeems" Fridolin at the party, saving him from punishment, is costumed as a nun, and most of the characters at the party are dressed as nuns or monks; Fridolin himself used a monk costume. This aspect was retained in the film's original screenplay, but
9246-451: The cover of Time magazine, and on show business programs such as Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood . Eyes Wide Shut opened on July 16, 1999, in the United States. The film topped the week-end box office, with $ 21.7 million from 2,411 screens. These numbers surpassed the studio's expectations of $ 20 million, and became both Cruise's sixth consecutive chart topper and Kubrick's highest opening week-end as well as
9380-408: The demand of the master of ceremonies, but the woman who warned him intervenes. She insists on redeeming him, at a personal cost. Bill is let off with a warning to keep quiet. Bill comes home feeling guilty and confused, only to find Alice laughing in her sleep. He wakes her up, and she tearfully tells him about a dream where she was having sex with the naval officer and many other men, and laughing at
9514-401: The entire film was shot in England. Sound-stage works were completed at London's Pinewood Studios which included a detailed recreation of Greenwich Village. Kubrick's perfectionism went as far as sending workmen to Manhattan to measure street widths and note newspaper vending machine locations. Real New York footage was also shot to be rear projected behind Cruise. Production was followed by
9648-474: The evening drinking and lamenting the injustice, and Willis asks if the couple have considered moving or doing anything about Richard. Matt abducts Richard at gunpoint, saying he's arranged for Richard to jump bail and leave the state, so as to spare them the pain of seeing him in Camden. He forces Richard to pack clothes for warm weather and plants a train schedule in his apartment. He then makes Richard drive them to
9782-562: The faces of the film's two stars. Paintings and sculptures appear throughout the film, some historical and others painted by Kubrick's wife Christiane Kubrick and step daughter Katharina Kubrick Hobbs. The home of the Harfords contains the majority of the works painted by Kubrick's family members, with the exception being a painting of a nude reclining pregnant woman by Christiane Kubrick title Paula On Red that appears in Ziegler's bathroom during
9916-467: The festival had come to represent that it seemed almost to herald the overdue coming-of-age of American independent film. In the Bedroom was the first film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. It also received nominations for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted screenplay, more nominations than any film to premiere at Sundance until Precious in 2009. In
10050-404: The film a score of 86 out of 100 based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". David Edelstein of Slate Magazine in his review of the film wrote that "it is the best movie of the last several years" and described it "the most evocative, the most mysterious, the most inconsolably devastating" film. He further mentioned that the effect of the film "isn't over when you leave
10184-523: The film among the best of 1999. French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma named it the best film of the year in its annual "top ten" list. However, audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "D−" on an A+ to F scale. In the Chicago Tribune , Michael Wilmington declared the film a masterpiece, lauding it as "provocatively conceived, gorgeously shot and masterfully executed ... Kubrick's brilliantly choreographed one-take scenes create
10318-441: The film and, as Robert Wilkes writes, reflect its "mood of sensuality, ritualism, and exoticism". In the same cafe scene, a crystoleum print of Maude Goodman's Hush! (or, A Moment of Idleness ) is seen behind Bill as he sits down with a newspaper, in the proceeding shot the print is replaced with what Wilkes describes as a "more chaotic, nightmarish image" as Bill reads about the ex-beauty queen's apparent overdose. When Bill
10452-462: The film from start to finish". Historians, travel guide authors, novelists, and merchants of Venetian masks have noted that these have a long history of being worn during promiscuous activities. Authors Tim Kreider and Thomas Nelson have linked the film's usage of these to Venice's reputation as a center of both eroticism and mercantilism . Nelson notes that the sex ritual combines elements of Venetian Carnival and Catholic rites, in particular,
10586-438: The film illustrates ways in which the "material reality of money" is shown replacing the spiritual values of Christmas, charity, and compassion. While virtually every scene has a Christmas tree, there is "no Christmas music or cheery Christmas spirit." Critic Alonso Duralde , in his book Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas , categorized the film as a "Christmas movie for grownups", arguing that "Christmas weaves its way through
10720-407: The film received critical acclaim for its direction, script, and performances, notably from Wilkinson and Spacek. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 93% based on 139 reviews, with an average score of 7.90/10. The site's consensus states "Expertly crafted and performed, In the Bedroom is a quietly wrenching portrayal of grief." Metacritic , which uses a weighted average, assigned
10854-469: The film tested poorly, then remind Weinstein of how well the film was initially received at Sundance. Field followed Cruise's advice and it worked. Critic Dennis Lim wrote in Village Voice : Todd Field's debut feature, In the Bedroom , alighted on the snowy peaks of Sundance last January as if from another universe. Here was a small miracle of patience and composure, so starkly removed from everything
10988-464: The film was noted for its use of classical music. The opening title music is Shostakovich 's Waltz No. 2 from " Suite for Variety Stage Orchestra ", misidentified as " Jazz Suite No. 2 ". One recurring piece is the second movement of György Ligeti 's piano cycle " Musica ricercata ". Kubrick originally intended to feature "Im Treibhaus" from Wagner 's Wesendonck Lieder , but the director eventually replaced it with Ligeti's piece feeling Wagner's song
11122-470: The film's press kits contained no production notes, not even the director's suggestions to Semel regarding the marketing campaign, given one week prior to Kubrick's death. The first footage was shown to theater owners attending the 1999 ShoWest convention in Las Vegas. TV spots featured both Isaak and Ligeti's music from the soundtrack, while revealing little about the movie's plot. The film also appeared on
11256-440: The film's lurid, crazy side is more apparent, and the intensity of the supporting performances— Noah Emmerich , Jackie Earle Haley, Phyllis Somerville —creep into the foreground. This movie, Mr. Field's second feature...is a complicated blend of gothic, melodrama and sexual comedy, unerringly attuned to the varieties of human failure." International Cinephile Society's Matt Mazur called the film "subversive" and designed to disorient
11390-530: The film, two Pre-Raphaelite paintings can be seen hanging on parallel walls, Ophelia by John William Waterhouse and Astarte Syriaca by Dante Gabriel Rossetti . Waterhouse's Ophelia depicts the character by the same name in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet moments before her death. Astarte Syriaca depicts Astarte , the ancient Syrian goddess of love, as well as two symmetrical angels holding torches directly behind her. Both paintings mirror events within
11524-451: The film." Harper' s film critic, Lee Siegel , believes that the film's recurring motif is the Christmas tree, because it symbolizes the way that "Compared with the everyday reality of sex and emotion, our fantasies of gratification are ... pompous and solemn in the extreme ... For desire is like Christmas: it always promises more than it delivers." Author Tim Kreider notes that
11658-613: The first batch of Big League Chew in the Field family kitchen. In 1980, Nelson and former New York Yankees all-star Jim Bouton sold the idea to the Wrigley Company . Since that time more than a billion pouches have been sold worldwide. A budding jazz musician, at the age of sixteen Field became a member of the Lab Band at Mount Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon. Headed by Larry McVey,
11792-518: The highest featuring Kidman and Cruise together. Eyes Wide Shut ended up grossing a total of $ 55,691,208 in the US. The numbers put it as Kubrick's second-highest-grossing film in the country, behind 2001: A Space Odyssey , but both were considered a box office disappointment. Shortly after its screening at the Venice Film Festival , Eyes Wide Shut had a British premiere on September 3, 1999, at
11926-477: The idea of Bill watching. The next day, Bill goes to Nick's hotel, but the desk clerk tells him that Nick left with two dangerous-looking men. Bill returns the costume but realizes he has misplaced the mask and learns that Milich has accepted profiting from his teenage daughter as a prostitute. Milich implies that Bill can pay to have sex with his daughter if he likes. In the afternoon, consumed by thoughts of his wife's infidelity, Bill leaves work early and returns to
12060-466: The importance of Rathbun as his creative partner, describing a conversation he had with her where she gave him the most pivotal scene: "for me, the film is unthinkable without it." Once again Field became "semi-reclusive,” which various journalists lamented. In his 2015 Ioncinema piece "Top 10 American Indie Filmmakers Missing in Action", Nicholas Bell wrote, "It is definitely time for Field to throw one down
12194-457: The intensity of the color and emphasize highlights. This effect is evident in the Christmas party scene at Ziegler's house, with Smith noting that the push processing "made the lights appear to be much brighter than they were" and created a "wonderful warm glow." Kubrick's perfectionism led him to oversee every visual element that would appear in a given frame, from props and furniture to the color of walls and other objects. One such element were
12328-444: The lead in the 1980s. The project was revived in 1994 when Kubrick hired Frederic Raphael to work on the script, updating the setting from early 20th century Vienna to late 20th century New York City. Kubrick invited his friend Michael Herr , who helped write Full Metal Jacket , to make revisions, but Herr declined for fear he would be underpaid and have to commit to a long production. Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Dream Story
12462-470: The likable med school dropout turned saloon piano player, and here he's an increasingly raging sociopath. In all these roles Field has the precious gift of being able to surprise you and to command your attention on screen." Franklin and Nuñez, both AFI alumni, encouraged Field to enroll as a Directing Fellow at the AFI Conservatory , which he did in 1992. His thesis film, Nonnie & Alex , received
12596-421: The lobsters begin to turn on each other. In the Bedroom premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival . It was theatrically released in limited theatres on November 23, 2001, and grossed $ 44.8 million against a $ 1.7 million budget. The film was praised for Field's direction, its screenplay and the performances (particularly those of Spacek, Wilkinson, Stahl and Tomei). In the Bedroom received 5 nominations at
12730-669: The mark of good art, but it's a discipline so many contemporary films aren't willing to demand from audiences. And if you're honest with yourself, you don't just watch Tár ; it watches you, too." Martin Scorsese presenting Best Film of the Year to Field at the 2022 New York Film Critics Circle Awards , praised Field's filmmaking saying, "For so long now, so many of us see films that pretty much let us know where they're going... but that's on dark days. The clouds lifted when I experienced Todd's film, Tár ." Paul Thomas Anderson also praised Field when presenting him with his Director Medallion at
12864-640: The masks used in the orgy which were inspired by the masked carnival balls visited by the protagonists in the novel. Costume designer Marit Allen explained that Kubrick felt they fit in that scene for being part of the imaginary world and ended up "creat[ing] the impression of menace, but without exaggeration". As many masks as were used in the Venetian carnival were sent to London and Kubrick chose who would wear each piece. The paintings of Kubrick's wife Christiane and his daughter Katherina are featured as decorations. Nicole Kidman revealed that her explicit scenes with
12998-414: The men in a room and threatens to call the police and ushers Bill away from the scene. Bill goes to the mansion and gives the password, discovering a sexual ritual in progress. A masked woman warns him he is in danger. He is brought before the master of ceremonies, who demands to know a second password for the house, revealing that the password Bill has is only to enter the grounds. Bill removes his mask at
13132-428: The middle. In the meantime, we'll just have to watch In the Bedroom for the umpteenth time." However, during this period Field did write a number of film and television projects that never came to fruition, including adaptations of the novels Blood Meridian , Beautiful Ruins and Purity . He also worked for almost a decade on a film adaptation of the 2010 Boston Teran novel The Creed of Violence , set during
13266-499: The naval officer, played by Gary Goba, were filmed over three days and that Kubrick wanted them to be "almost pornographic". After shooting had been completed, Kubrick entered a prolonged post-production process, and on March 1, 1999, Kubrick showed a cut to Cruise, Kidman and the Warner Bros. executives. Kubrick suddenly died six days later. Jocelyn Pook wrote the original music for Eyes Wide Shut , but, like other Kubrick movies,
13400-399: The negative reviews of the film include Paul Tatara of CNN mentioning that the film "flounders" despite the good performances. Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post said "it opens brilliantly" but goes on to "self-negating absurdity." A. O. Scott included the film in his New York Times essay "The most important films of the past decade—and why they mattered." In the Bedroom
13534-405: The new media center he has installed in the pool house, and she replies that she will pick up In the Bedroom for them to watch. Eyes Wide Shut Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic mystery psychological drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick . It is based on the 1926 novella Dream Story ( German : Traumnovelle ) by Arthur Schnitzler , transferring
13668-462: The other hand, notes that Christmas lights allow Kubrick to employ some of his distinct methods of shooting including using source location lighting, as he also did in Barry Lyndon . The New York Times notes that the film "gives an otherworldly radiance and personality to Christmas lights", and critic Randy Rasmussen notes that "colorful Christmas lights ... illuminate almost every location in
13802-574: The other supporting cast, Alan Cumming later said that he auditioned six times for his small role in the film. In 2019, it was revealed that Cate Blanchett had provided the voice of the mysterious masked woman at the orgy party. Actress Abigail Good could not do a convincing American accent, and Cruise and Kidman ended up suggesting Blanchett for the dubbing , which occurred after Kubrick's death. Principal photography began in November 1996. Kubrick's perfectionism led to script pages being rewritten on
13936-546: The overdose scene. In the beginning of the film, as Bill and Alice are saying goodbye to their daughter Helena and the babysitter, a painting by Christiane Kubrick titled "View from the Mentmore" can be seen hanging next to the Christmas tree. Mentmore Towers is an English country house in the south east of England that was used for filming the interior scenes of the Somerton house and the masked orgy. During Ziegler's party, Bill
14070-404: The password to heaven with them resulting in their banishment. At the time of the poem's release, it was received with controversy due to the open eroticism throughout. During the same party sequence, Bill is talking with the two models as they walk past a small reproduction of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculpture Apollo and Daphne sitting on a table. When Bill enters a cafe towards the end of
14204-431: The past two days. The next day they go Christmas shopping with their daughter, and Bill apologizes to Alice. She suggests they do something "as soon as possible," to which Bill asks what she means. Alice simply responds with one word: "Fuck". Eyes Wide Shut was developed after Stanley Kubrick read Arthur Schnitzler's Dream Story in 1968, when Kubrick was looking for a project to follow 2001: A Space Odyssey . Kubrick
14338-452: The public, the right of interpretation belongs to the viewer. Unless it's something historical—like Citizen Kane or Raging Bull —it seems really silly to have that kind of thing." A 35mm safety print is housed in the permanent collection of the UCLA Film & Television Archive . During season four (episode eight, " Mergers and Acquisitions ") of The Sopranos , Tony shows Carmela
14472-423: The realm of camp in the hands of a lesser filmmaker, but Kubrick depicts primal evil in a way that somehow makes it seem both new and deeply terrifying." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a score of three and a half stars out of four, writing, "Kubrick's great achievement in the film is to find and hold an odd, unsettling, sometimes erotic tone for the doctor's strange encounters." He praised
14606-481: The relentless nature of the production, the crew became exhausted and were reported to have been impacted by low morale. Cruise developed an ulcer but did not tell Kubrick. Filming finally wrapped in June 1998. The Guinness World Records recognized Eyes Wide Shut as the longest constant movie shoot that ran "...for over 15 months, a period that included an unbroken shoot of 46 weeks". Given Kubrick's fear of flying,
14740-411: The scene. As Kidman was nervous about doing nude scenes, Kubrick stated she could bring her own music for the filming. When Kidman brought a Chris Isaak CD, Kubrick approved it, and incorporated Isaak's song " Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing " to both an early romantic embrace of Bill and Alice and the film's trailer. The film was described by some reviewers, and partially marketed, as an erotic thriller ,
14874-404: The set, and he intentionally filmed many scenes multiple times to try to break down the actors involved and have them give a more authentic performance. One scene of Cruise walking through a door was filmed 95 times. As a result, the shoot went on for much longer than expected. The actress Vinessa Shaw was initially contracted for two weeks and one scene but ended up working for two months. Due to
15008-418: The site of the orgy. At the front gate, he is handed an envelope with a warning to stay away. That evening, Bill tries to call Marion but hangs up when her fiancé answers. He decides to go to Domino's apartment to consummate their affair but is met by her roommate, Sally. Although there is sexual tension between them, Sally informs Bill that Domino has just received news that she is HIV-positive . After leaving
15142-486: The steamy erotic thriller a synopsis (or the ads) might suggest." Writing in general about the genre of 'erotic thriller' for CineAction in 2001, Douglas Keesey states that "whatever [ Eyes Wide Shut 's ] actual type, [it] was at least marketed as an erotic thriller". Michael Koresky, writing in the 2006 issue of film journal Reverse Shot , writes "this director, who defies expectations at every turn and brings genre to his feet, was ... setting out to make neither
15276-416: The story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City. The plot centers on a doctor ( Tom Cruise ) who is shocked when his wife ( Nicole Kidman ) reveals that she had contemplated having an affair 12 months earlier. He then embarks on a night-long adventure, during which he infiltrates a masked orgy of an unnamed secret society. Kubrick obtained the filming rights for Dream Story in
15410-416: The summer. Frank has fallen in love with a divorced older woman with children, Natalie Strout; Ruth is concerned about the relationship, while Matt thinks it is only a fling. The family struggles to communicate their feelings to one another, especially regarding Frank's relationship and schooling. Frank is about to begin graduate school for architecture but is considering staying in town to continue working as
15544-533: The theater" and that it's "always going to be there". He also called In the Bedroom a "masterpiece". Neil Norman of The Evening Standard stated "It is apparent that Field has not only studied the masters of cinematic understatement, such as Ozu and Bergman , but that he fully understands their processes... Field's achievement is such a perfectly consummated marriage of intent and execution that he need never make another movie. I would not be alone, I think, in hoping he will make many more." William Arnold of
15678-413: The verse that was claimed to be cited from the sacred Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita (although it was Pook's reworking of "Backwards Priests" as stated above). In the UK, Warner Home Video 's 'rated 18' [no video altering] 1999 DVD release was in 4:3 full frame aspect ratio, with a note at the beginning that this was as Kubrick intended it to be shown [ratio as shot]. However, the film's length on this UK DVD
15812-589: The viewer with "seemingly non-connected imagery to suggest a tone and a mood of disquiet." Mazur compared Field's technique with that of Sergei Eisenstein , D. W. Griffith , Georges Méliès , and Edwin S. Porter . Many members of Field's creative team on In the Bedroom returned to work with him on the film, including Serena Rathbun. In a 2006 interview with The Hollywood Reporter ' s Anne Thompson , Field said he quit acting and began making his own films after Rathbun told him, "Do what you want to do. Don't get distracted." Later that year, Field spoke extensively about
15946-502: The woman's sacrifice, was staged. Whether this is to be believed or not, it is an exposition of Ziegler's view of the ways of the world as a member of the power elite. When Warner Bros. president Terry Semel approved production in 1995, he asked Kubrick to cast a movie star as "you haven't done that since Jack Nicholson [in The Shining ]". Kubrick considered casting Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger as Bill and Alice Harford. Cruise
16080-458: The worst of the American national security establishment, Charles Grady represents the worst of Jack Torrance in The Shining , and Clare Quilty represents the worst of Humbert Humbert in Lolita . More significantly, in the film, Ziegler gives a commentary on the whole story to Bill, including an explanation that the party incident, where Bill is apprehended, threatened, and ultimately redeemed by
16214-443: Was "too beautiful". In the morgue scene, Franz Liszt 's late solo piano piece, " Nuages Gris " ("Grey Clouds") (1881), is heard. "Rex tremendae" from Mozart 's Requiem plays as Bill walks into the café and reads of Mandy's death. Pook was hired after choreographer Yolande Snaith rehearsed the masked ball orgy scene using Pook's composition "Backwards Priests" – which features a Romanian Orthodox Divine Liturgy recorded in
16348-399: Was a huge hit." Overseas earnings of over $ 105 million led to a $ 162,091,208 box office run world-wide, turning it into the highest-grossing Kubrick film. Eyes Wide Shut was first released on VHS and DVD on March 7, 2000. The original DVD release corrects technical gaffes, including a reflected crew member, and altering a piece of Alice Harford's dialogue. Most home videos remove
16482-402: Was a small miracle of patience and composure, so starkly removed from everything the festival had come to represent that it seemed almost to herald the overdue coming-of-age of American independent film." Upon the film's release David Ansen of Newsweek wrote: "Todd Field exhibits a mastery of his craft many filmmakers never acquire in a lifetime. With one film he's guaranteed his future as
16616-563: Was also chosen by the New York Times Film Critics for their "Best 1,000 Films of All Time" list. The March 2023 issue of New York magazine listed In the Bedroom alongside Citizen Kane , Sunset Boulevard , Dr. Strangelove , Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , The Conversation , Nashville , Taxi Driver , The Elephant Man , Pulp Fiction , There Will Be Blood , Roma , and Tár , also directed by Field, as "The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at
16750-410: Was chosen by Kubrick to be the film's cinematographer. Wherever possible, Smith made use of available light sources visible in the shots such as lamps and Christmas tree lights, but when this was insufficient he used Chinese paper ball lamps to softly brighten the scene, with other types of film lighting if needed. The color was enhanced by push processing the film reels (emulsion) which helped bring out
16884-425: Was deleted in the filmed version. The novella makes it clear that Fridolin at this point hates Albertina more than ever, thinking they are now lying together "like mortal enemies". It has been argued that the dramatic climax of the novella is actually Albertina's dream, and the film has shifted the focus to Bill's visit to the secret society's orgy, whose content is more shocking in the film. The adaptation created
17018-404: Was even used as the setting for one sequence. Rathbun and Spacek did some of the set design and Field handled the camera himself on many of the shots. In the Bedroom made its debut at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival . Dennis Lim wrote in the Village Voice : "Todd Field's debut feature, In the Bedroom , alighted on the snowy peaks of Sundance last January as if from another universe. Here
17152-416: Was first with Finding Graceland , then Leigh with eXistenZ . They were replaced by Sydney Pollack and Marie Richardson, respectively, in the final cut. Decades later, Keitel said that he had quit after feeling like Kubrick had "disrespected" him; Gary Oldman added that the breaking point was after Kubrick asked Keitel to do dozens of takes for a scene of his character walking through the door. Among
17286-564: Was in England because his wife Nicole Kidman was there filming The Portrait of a Lady (1996), and the pair eventually decided to visit Kubrick's estate. After that meeting, the director awarded them the roles. Kubrick also managed to make both not commit to other projects until Eyes Wide Shut was completed. Kubrick offered Eva Herzigová a role in the film, but she declined. Jennifer Jason Leigh and Harvey Keitel each were cast in supporting roles and filmed by Kubrick. Reportedly due to scheduling conflicts, both had to drop out. Keitel
17420-571: Was interested in adapting the story, and with the help of journalist Jay Cocks , bought the filming rights to the novel. For the following decade, Kubrick considered making the Dream Story adaptation a sex comedy "with a wild and somber streak running through it", starring Steve Martin or Woody Allen in the main role. Kubrick also considered Tom Hanks , Bill Murray , Dustin Hoffman , Warren Beatty , Albert Brooks , Alan Alda and Sam Shepard for
17554-513: Was named Best Picture of the Year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association , and the New York Film Critics Circle awarded Field Best First Film. In the Bedroom received six American Film Institute Awards , including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, three Golden Globe nominations, and five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture , Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress, and two individually for Field as screenwriter and producer. The American Film Institute honored Field with
17688-575: Was nominated by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director, the Producers Guild of America for Best Film, and the Writers Guild of America for Best Original Screenplay. He was named Best Director of the Year by the London Film Critics' Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association , and his script named Best Original Screenplay. Tár is the fourth film in history to be named Best of
17822-517: Was premiered on July 13, 1999, before being released on July 16, to generally positive but polarized reviews from critics. Box office receipts for the film worldwide were about $ 162 million, making it Kubrick's highest-grossing film. The uncut version has since been released in DVD , HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats. Dr. Bill Harford and his wife Alice live in New York City with their daughter Helena. At
17956-500: Was shown theatrically as soft matted 1.66:1 in Europe and 1.85:1 in the US and Japan). The previous DVD release used a 1.33:1 (4:3) aspect ratio. It is also the first American home video release to feature the uncut version. Although the earliest American DVD of the uncut version states on the cover that it includes both the R-rated and unrated editions, in actuality only the unrated edition is on
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