EYES WIDE SHUT
UNIVERSITY PLACE AND BEYOND
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This is a real street, not a set street. We're able to place it because of the Dean & Deluca Cafe sign, which is the cafe at 75 University Place in New York. We're at the corner of E. 11th St and University Place. A red flag with a bowling pin hangs over the street.
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As Bill Harford walked about the city, after leaving Marion's, Kubrick provided several Greenwich Village anchor shots. Now, the day after his initial adventures, Bill returns to places he'd previously visited. Instead of being shown Greenwich Village, for some reason Kubrick instead gives East 11th and University as an anchor, before showing Bill arriving at the Rainbow only to find it closed.
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Having learned where Nick Nightingale is staying, Bill progresses there. Kubrick shows East 13th and University Place leading in to Bill's visit to the Jason Hotel.
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The view Kubrick had given from 11th was facing 13th. The view Kubrick gives from 13th is facing 11th. Thus, one sensibly feels that perhaps Bill's destination has something to do with this area. At least that is what seems to be communicated visually. In both instances a Bowlmor banner, showing a pin, is on prominent display. And so the curious person is inclined to gravitate to the bowling pin. It is a signpost for Bowlmor lanes, located at 110 University Place.
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After Bill finishes at The Hotel Jason, he heads back to the Rainbow (which we can see outside through the glass), but Kubrick gives an intercessory physical anchor of yet another intersection rather far afield, St. Mark's Place and 2nd Avenue.
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After Bill returns his costume (sans the missing mask) to the costume shop, we then have a shot of 450 Park Avenue and East 57th Street facing the Metlife building. This is followed by Bill at work, mulling over events, and finally taking the afternoon off to return to Somerton.
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