Kubrick passed right before Eyes Wide Shut hit the silver screen..........


He cited Schindler's List as an influence on his 1995 film Death and the Maiden.^[96] The success of Schindler's List led filmmaker Stanley Kubrick to abandon his own Holocaust project, Aryan Papers, which would have been about a Jewish boy and his aunt who survive the war by sneaking through Poland while pretending to be Catholic.^[