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Eyes Wide Shut (Archive)

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Adam Kempenaar & Josh Larsen

Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Film History

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Something for the holidays special from the Filmspotting Archive: Adam and Josh's ⁠9 From '99⁠ review of Stanley Kubrick's EYES WIDE SHUT. For full access to the archive going back to 2005, plus monthly bonus shows, a weekly newsletter, access to the Filmspotting Discord, and more, join the ⁠⁠Filmspotting Family⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Think about cheese.

0:02.0

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0:24.7

We do All our Sainsbury's party food Is three for two with nectar Like our taste the difference Krispy Mushroom Tartlets Mini Wagyu beef cheeseburgers Or crispy chicken bow buns That will get them coming back For seconds And thirds Want to save beg on party pleasers? Ask Sainsbury's. Sainsbury's good food for all of us.

0:43.3

18 plus, next required, cheapest product free, available in store and online, excluding locals,

0:48.1

subject to availability, teas and sees apply. Hey, film spotters, Josh and Adam here. Wednesdays are

0:53.3

when we drop something in the feed from the giant film spotting archive this week. We're sharing our 9 from 99 review of eyes wide shut. I don't know if you think of this as a Christmas movie, Adam, holiday movie, but a lot of people do and they tend to revisit it this time of

1:12.3

year. Yes, I think that that is only appropriate. And it's fitting for me because I may have

1:19.0

treated myself to an early Christmas present this year by buying the 4K criterion collection DVD.

1:27.9

Come on.

1:29.5

You're one of those people.

1:31.2

Debbie does this too.

1:35.6

November 1, you don't buy yourself anything.

1:36.8

You're done.

1:37.9

Hold off.

1:41.8

You just, you can wait till the next, till January 1, okay?

2:18.3

Well, yeah, yeah, maybe so, maybe so. But Josh, maybe you get more Christmas presents that I do. Maybe if I don't buy them for myself, nobody will. Wow. I'm going to talk to sir about that. And on that sad note, you know, I'm just fishing for listeners to send me stuff. That's all. Just send me cookies. I just want baked goods. That's all I really want. Can't get that from Criterion. From September 2019, here is our 9 from 99 review of Eyes Wide Shut. You've never been jealous about me, have you? No, I haven't. And why haven't you ever been jealous about me? Well, I don't know, Alice. Maybe because you're my wife, and I know you would never be unfaithful to me.

2:23.3

You are very, very sure of yourself, aren't you?

2:28.3

No.

2:30.3

I'm sure of you.

2:40.4

Do you think that's funny?

2:58.2

I really don't bring this up to rub it in Adam, but when I was hanging out with our now mutual friends, Jason Ekin and Brett Merriman at the Film Spotting L.A. meet up this summer. One of the things we debated was the supposed misanthropy of Stanley Kubrick's films. Neither of them quite by my theory that his movies mostly despise people and that the

3:09.4

giant space baby at the end of 2001 is coming to gobble us all. I honestly don't remember if

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