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Stanley Kubrick (who looms large in this list) hadn’t released a film in 12 years when “Eyes Wide Shut” premiered in 1999. He also died four days after completing it (although argument remains about how complete it is, since he wasn’t alive to approve the final CGI edits of the mask-clad orgy scenes to gain a more desirable R rating). Given this, Kubrick’s legendary status, and the film’s final on-screen uniting of power still-couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, the trailer for “Eyes Wide Shut” could have been nothing but a minute-long black title screen announcing its arrival and still had people spilling their popcorn.
Instead, they were given an ingeniously jazzy concoction set to Chris Isaak’s “Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing,” promising a world of high-end Manhattan misbehavior. The glimpses of a couple making out, the woman distracted, a young girl’s nymphish grin, a morgue, the flash of a surreal gothic underworld, all cut with the occasional sudden blinding frame of black horizontal bars, barely hint at the disquieting meditation on sex and love that was Kubrick’s last masterwork. –Brandon Kim
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