{"product_id":"eyes-wide-open-a-memoir-of-stanley-kubrick-9780345437761","title":"Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick\u003c\/strong\u003e by Raphael, Frederic. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780345437761.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeve all heard the rumors.\n\nHe was a hermit. He refused to fly and wouldnt be driven at more than thirty miles an hour. He avoided having his picture taken and was terrified of being assassinated. As a filmmaker, he was obsessed with perfection. He insisted on total control of every facet of the process. Simple scenes required one hundred takes. No wonder he made only six movies in the past thirty-five years.\n\nBut what was he really like?\n\nFor more than two years, Frederic Raphael collaborated closely with Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay of what was to be the directors final movie, Eyes Wide Shut. Over time, as his professional caution was replaced by a certain affection, Kubrick lowered his guard for Raphael as he never had with journalists or biographers, to reveal much about his early life in the cinema and of the reverses and humiliations he had to endure. They spoke for hours about a variety of subjects, from Julius Caesar to the Holocaust, from Kubricks views about other directors to reminiscences of the many stars with whom both men had worked (or nearly worked)--Kirk Douglas, Audrey Hepburn, James Mason, Peter Sellers, Marisa Berenson, Sterling Hayden, Marlon Brando, and Gregory Peck.\n\nHere, with his own distinctly cinematic style, Raphael chronicles their often fiery exchanges, capturing Kubricks voice as no one else could. Disdaining false veneration, he opens our eyes to the mind and art of a truly complex and hitherto elusive twentieth-century genius.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44867465412661,"sku":"ByrdShop_0345437764","price":96.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780345437761_7c994c3a-bbb8-4be5-b41c-0643314eb225.jpg?v=1784747933","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/eyes-wide-open-a-memoir-of-stanley-kubrick-9780345437761","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}