Original Eyes Wide Shut Movie Posters

Eyes Wide Shut movie posters — Eyes Wide Shut (1999) — Stanley Kubrick's final film, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a Manhattan couple whose marriage is shaken by a night of sexual fantasy and genuine menace — produced campaign materials that had to navigate the film's explicit sexual content while communicating its artistic seriousness. The campaign solutions vary significantly across national markets, reflecting different standards and different readings of the film's moral register. Shop original Eyes Wide Shut theatrical materials — Kubrick's swan song — released six months after his death in March 1999 and awaited with a level of anticipation that few films have generated. The American campaign used the Cruise-Kidman partnership and the mask imagery from the film's Venetian masked ball sequence to communicate erotic mystery without triggering censorship concerns. The result is campaign art of considerable visual elegance. European materials for Eyes Wide Shut are considerably more direct in engaging with the film's sexual subject matter, and the Italian, French, and German theatrical papers offer visual readings of the same film that the American campaign could not have produced. These are among the most interesting national variant comparisons in Kubrick collecting. The film's promotional photography — with Cruise and Kidman shot by Kubrick himself in the same exacting way he approached every production element — gives the campaign materials a visual quality distinct from standard Hollywood portraiture. Browse alongside our Stanley Kubrick page and Full Metal Jacket for related Kubrick material. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.