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The Blair Witch Project | Eyes Wide Shut | And More

Jul 16, 1999 - © Bruce Diamond

"countdown" files for each opening date.

A&e Fanatic's Guide
Contains the Official Blair Witch Project FAQ, a constant news update, and a list of theaters the movie will open at on July 16, and special downloads. The best TBWP fan site, created by Abigail Marceluk and Eric Alan Ivins, but suspected of being a plant.

Artisan Entertainment
The official store. Buy T shirts, posters, books, and more. (What, no hats?)

Camorgan's Cabin in the Woods
Three part Windows 95/98 desktop theme from fan "Chris Camorgan." Other downloads include several audio files and a trailer. Possible plant.

The Blair Warner Project
Riotous mix of The Blair Witch Project and The Facts of Life, from fan Cecilia Populus.

The Curse of the Blair Witch
A pseudo-documentary of the pseudo-documentary, in many ways just as compelling as the film. Airs on The Sci-Fi Channel.

BWP Chat
Delphi Forum fan chat site, run by Jeff Johnsen. Next scheduled chat: July 25 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. Possible plant.

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Eyes Wide Shut

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick & Frederic Raphael, based on the novella Traumnovelle, by Arthur Schnitzler
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollak, Todd Field, Marie Richardson, Rene Sherbedgia, Vinessa Shaw, Alan Cumming, Leelee Sobieski
Running Time: 159 minutes
Studio: Warner Bros.
MPAA Rating: R

The pacing -- languid, deliberate, dream-like -- is unmistakably Kubrick, as is the spare dialogue, the long tracking shots (the Steadicam seems born for Kubrick films), the occasional blurring of the line between reality and fugue-state, the hidden personas we never make public, and the challenge of what is acceptable and what is not acceptable in "polite society" and by the MPAA. Kubrick challenges us to discover why and how we keep our Eyes Wide Shut, individually and collectively, and what we're not seeing as a result.

Eyes Wide Shut is Stanley Kubrick's thirteenth and final feature film, unfortunately, for he passed away in March of this year, a mere three days after finishing a final cut. News reached stars Cruise and Kidman in the middle of the night... Cruise had been expecting a call from Kubrick regarding the movie, he's said in interviews. The news hit them, and the entire movie world, hard. Superficially, many of his films can be placed into

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