23rd February 2009
The New Cult Canon: Eyes Wide Shut
“But it’s a good example of what happens when films of genuine ambition and artistry are caught up in the swells of studio mass marketing and hype. […] Fortunately, the guardians of film history (cultists, you might call them) are more than patient enough to wait out the culture’s short attention span, but I can’t think of a film that needs rescuing more than Eyes Wide Shut, which was greeted in many circles with disdain, disrespect, and willful misinterpretation.
