Robert Kolker and Nathan Abrams
By Robert Kolker and Nathan Abrams
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Culture Happy 20th To ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ — Stanley Kubrick’s Peculiarly Jewish Film
Editor’s Note: Stanley Kubrick’s final film “Eyes Wide Shut” turns 20 today. We look back at its Jewish aspects and influences. The inherent Jewishness of Arthur Schnitzler’s “Traumnovelle” — the source text for “Eyes Wide Shut” — presented early problems. Stanley Kubrick’s films rarely contained Jewish characters —Lt. Goldberg in “Dr. Strangelove” and David the…
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Culture The Elusive Jewishness of “Eyes Wide Shut” — Stanley Kubrick’s Final Film
The inherent Jewishness of Arthur Schnitzler’s “Traumnovelle” — the source text for “Eyes Wide Shut” — presented early problems. Stanley Kubrick’s films rarely contained Jewish characters —Lt. Goldberg in “Dr. Strangelove” and David the Jew in “Spartacus” are rare exceptions. Typically, though, he removed Jewish characters from the source texts he adapted, including “The Killing,”…
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