More Like Eyes Wide Sh*t
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.4 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Mark Kermode and Jack Howard Re-watched EYES WIDE SHUT and get together in their regular Sun Pub in London's Drury Lane to talk about Kubrick's 1999 film starring Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise.
With thanks to Richard Gay.
And to The Sun Pub in London's Drury Lane.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Mark Kermode. Thanks for downloading this Kermod on film podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Or if you're watching on YouTube, thanks for watching us. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm joined once again upstairs at the Sun Pub in London's Glittering West End by Jack Howard. |
| 0:10.4 | And this episode, at Jack's suggestion, we're going to be discussing... |
| 0:14.2 | Finally, we're talking about eyes wide shot. |
| 0:17.0 | Or as Mark likes to call it... |
| 0:18.3 | Eyes wide shit. |
| 0:19.2 | Does he still think this? |
| 0:20.7 | Let's find out. |
| 0:22.3 | Together. |
| 0:24.7 | Do you mind if I start with a quote? |
| 0:26.4 | You go ahead. |
| 0:28.4 | It's a quote from, so me and my girlfriend watched Eyes Wide Shut last night. |
| 0:33.7 | This is Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut. |
| 0:36.3 | And this is my girlfriend, Ailey Fraser's take on the film. This is almost like her letterbox one sentence review. Okay. The ramblings of an old man who wants to open up his marriage six months before he dies. Wow. Well, harsh. Just to set the tone. But do you know what I said about it when I reviewed it? Not dissimilar? |
| 0:54.7 | The inane ramblings of an old man who needed to get out more. |
| 0:58.7 | That is literally what my review of it said. |
| 1:03.4 | I don't think Ailey was reading your reviews in 1999. |
| 1:07.0 | No, that is literally what I said when eyes wide shut first came out. |
| 1:11.7 | And also just to set the sort of tone of this as well, I was seven years old when eyes wide shot came out. |
| 1:17.6 | I'm going to say when I saw eyes wide shut. |
| 1:19.6 | When it came out. |
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