Eyes Wide Shut (Criterion Collection) (4K + Blu-ray) [USA]

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Release Date: November 25, 2025
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Criterion- $39.96 4K+Blu-ray) , $31.96 (Blu-ray only)
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Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael, Arthur Schnitzler
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Serbedzija
  • United Kingdom, United States
  • 1999
  • 159 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.85:1
  • English
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Stanley Kubrick’s career-capping Eyes Wide Shutunfolds in a dreamscape vision of New York City, where doctor Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), confront the unconscious desires, jealousies, and fears threatening their marriage. A Christmastime odyssey into a surreal sexual underworld whose hidden power structures are laid frighteningly bare, the film marks the fulfillment of the director’s decades-long desire to adapt Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Dream Story and the culmination of his obsessive interest in the relationship between institutional authority and the individual. Released in 1999, the film also serves as a fitting coda to a century of cinema, by one of its greatest visionaries—an endlessly tantalizing labyrinth whose myriad symbols, mysteries, and meanings are still being unraveled.

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4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES​

  • New 4K digital restoration of the international version of the film, supervised and approved by director of photography Larry Smith, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
  • New interviews with Smith, photographer and second-unit director Lisa Leone, and Stanley Kubrick archivist Georgina Orgill
  • Archival interview with Christiane Kubrick, director Stanley Kubrick’s wife
  • Never Just a Dream (2019), featuring interviews with producer Jan Harlan; Katharina Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick’s daughter; and Anthony Frewin, Kubrick’s personal assistant
  • Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick(2007)
  • Kubrick Remembered (2014), featuring interviews with actors Todd Field and Leelee Sobieski and filmmaker Steven Spielberg
  • Kubrick’s 1998 acceptance speech for the Directors Guild of America’s D. W. Griffith Award
  • Press conference from 1999, featuring Harlan and actors Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
  • Teaser and trailers
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by author Megan Abbott and a 1999 interview with actor Sydney Pollack
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Ooh great news, hope they do a uk edition otherwise I’ll get this
Hopefully Arrow or BFI do it.. And I'll get that edition.....This is the new normal for me. Criterion editions are now second to Arrow, BFI and anybody getting their encodes done by Fidelity in Motion.
I have been a Criterion lover and enthusiastic supporter since laserdiscs- but they have really gone downhill in the last 10 years. Baffling art choices, questionable encoding, revisionist color timing (with enfuriating Teal pushes), and some laughably embarrassing title choices (House Party?! The Wiz?! Dick Johnson is Dead?!).
These days I only go CC when Arrow, BFI, Second Sight, Eureka, Indicator do not have it.
 
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