Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film

Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some 50…

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