Films at PhxArt: Eyes Wide Shut

Name: Films at PhxArt: Eyes Wide Shut
Start: 2025-12-17T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-12-17T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Phoenix Art Museum

Schedule

Wed Dec 17 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Phoenix Art Museum | Phoenix, AZ

Stanley Kubrick’s career-capping Eyes Wide Shut unfolds in a dreamscape vision of New York City, where doctor Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), confront the unconscious desires, jealousies, and fears threatening their marriage. A Christmastime odyssey into a surreal sexual underworld whose hidden power structures are laid frighteningly bare, the film marks the fulfillment of the director’s decades-long desire to adapt Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story) and the culmination of his obsessive interest in the relationship between institutional authority and the individual.
Released in 1999, the film also serves as a fitting coda to a century of cinema, by one of its greatest visionaries—an endlessly tantalizing labyrinth whose myriad symbols, mysteries, and meanings are still being unraveled.