Hello and welcome to the fifth and final episode of our retrospective of the life and career of Stanley Kubrick.

I'm your host Harry, joined again by our wonderful guest, Chloe, proper horror show.

And Josh is here too.

Hello.

As you can see, they've broken out the bubbly, a little bit of the bubbly in the celebration of Stanley Kubrick and the end of our series.

And today we're going to be talking about his final film that he released before he died.

Well, he didn't release.

He finished before he died, eyes wide shut, which is an interesting film.

This was the first time that I had ever watched it.

It's got a somewhat of a mixed reputation.

It's a little bit notorious. And supposedly people, when it first came out, thought that Stanley

Kubrick had somehow managed to rope Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who were married at the time,

into making a full-on porn film for him. So should we discuss a bit of that then? Let's talk about

the making of the

film, the actual film itself, and the reaction to it, and then the final days of Stanley Kubrick,

I suppose, and his legacy. Oh, that would be lovely, but I mean, what series is this? We've got

a blueball people for a while. We've got to talk about technical specifications and advertising campaigns.

Of course, well, you know, wherever the story starts, start.

Fair enough, fair enough.

So we finished off part for talking about the end of Full Metal Jacket, how it had been rather delayed by some production issues, some by Stanley's approach to

filmmaking, which by that time was still with him in full control, but also him wanting to

experiment. We talked about he would try things, he would improvise, he'd get actors to go over

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