25th Anniversary – 35mm Screening!

After his wife, Alice, tells him about her sexual fantasies, William Harford sets out for a night of sexual adventure. After several less than successful encounters, he meets an old friend, Nick Nightingale – now a musician – who tells him of strange sex parties when he is required to play the piano blindfolded. All the men at the party are costumed and wear masks while the women are all young and beautiful. Harford manages to find an appropriate costume and heads out to the party. Once there, however, he is warned by someone who recognizes him, despite the mask, that he is in great danger. He manages to extricate himself but the threats prove to be quite real and sinister.

“Unquestionably one of the most highly anticipated films of modern times due to its high-powered talent combo, rumored racy content, the 12-year interval since the last Stanley Kubrick picture and the fact that it is being released posthumously, Eyes Wide Shut. . . is a riveting, thematically probing, richly atmospheric. . .deeply inquisitive consideration of the extent of trust and mutual knowledge possible between a man and a woman.” – Variety

“Provides a stunning epiphany for the summer of the dirty joke. This is a dead-serious film about sexual yearnings, one that flirts with ridicule yet sustains its fundamental eeriness and gravity throughout. The dreamlike intensity of previous Kubrick visions is in full force here, in an adaptation of a 1926 Viennese novella that is stark and haunting in its own right.” —Janet Maslin, New York Times (Jul 16, 1999)

“This is a sexual horror story, and the moral and dramatic creepiness pulsate in every pregnant pause between characters, every flat utterance from their lips, every hypnotic moment of this film.” —Desson Howe, Washington Post (Jul 16, 1999)