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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is an Academy Award-winning 2004 American romance film by director Michel Gondry. The film uses a science fiction element to explore the nature of memory and love. Opening in North America on March 19, 2004, the movie grossed more than US$70 million worldwide.^[1] Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (486x755, 92 KB) FOCUS Features, Retreived on October 4, 2006 from http://www. ... Michel Gondry, 2005 Michel Gondry, born May 8, 1963 (1964 according to some sources), is a French Academy Award winning screenwriter, film, commercial, and music video director noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scÃ¨ne. ... Steve Golin is founder and CEO of Anonymous Content LLP, a multimedia development, production and talent management company based in Culver City, California. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian-American A-list film actor and comedian. ... Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is a five time Academy Award-nominated Emmy Award-nominated BAFTA, Grammy and Screen Actors Guild Award winning English actress. ... Kirsten[1] Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, known for her roles in Interview with the Vampire (for which she received a Golden Globe nomination), The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, and Bring It On, as well as for her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in the... Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor. ... Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor. ... Tom Wilkinson, OBE (born February 5th, 1948) is an Academy Award-nominated English actor. ... Jane Adams (born April 1, 1965 in Washington, D.C.) is an American actress who has appeared in film, television and theatre. ... David Cross (born April 4, 1964) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, writer and actor. ... Jon Brion at The Sunset Tavern in Seattle (photo by Nadja Dee Tanaka) Jon Brion (born 1962) is an American rock and pop multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer. ... ValdÃs Ã“skarsdÃ³ttir is an award-winning Icelandic film editor, whose work as an editor includes The Celebration, Les MisÃ©rables, Finding Forrester and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. ... Focus Features is the art house films division of Universal Pictures, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distrubutor for foreign films. ... is the 78th day of the year (79th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... USD redirects here. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. ... While most films have some aspect of romance between characters (at least as a subplot) a romance film can be loosely defined as any film in which the central plot (the premise of the story) revolves around the romantic involvement of the storys protagonists. ... Michel Gondry, 2005 Michel Gondry, born May 8, 1963 (1964 according to some sources), is a French Academy Award winning screenwriter, film, commercial, and music video director noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scÃ¨ne. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... For other uses, see Memory (disambiguation). ... This article primarily discusses philosophical ideologies in relation to the subject of romantic love. ... is the 78th day of the year (79th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... USD redirects here. ...

It is directed by Michel Gondry, who worked on the story with Charlie Kaufman and Pierre Bismuth, a French performance artist. Kaufman and Bismuth won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2005. The film stars Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet and features Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Wilkinson, Elijah Wood, Jane Adams, and David Cross. The movie's title is taken from the poem Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope which was the story of a tragic love affair. Michel Gondry, 2005 Michel Gondry, born May 8, 1963 (1964 according to some sources), is a French Academy Award winning screenwriter, film, commercial, and music video director noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scÃ¨ne. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ... // The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ... The 77th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 2004, were held on February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. ... James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian-American A-list film actor and comedian. ... Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is a five time Academy Award-nominated Emmy Award-nominated BAFTA, Grammy and Screen Actors Guild Award winning English actress. ... Kirsten[1] Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, known for her roles in Interview with the Vampire (for which she received a Golden Globe nomination), The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, and Bring It On, as well as for her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in the... Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor. ... Tom Wilkinson, OBE (born February 5th, 1948) is an Academy Award-nominated English actor. ... Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor. ... Jane Adams (born April 1, 1965 in Washington, D.C.) is an American actress who has appeared in film, television and theatre. ... David Cross (born April 4, 1964) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, writer and actor. ... Eloisa to Abelard In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heavnly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in a vestals veins? Why rove my thoughts beyond this last retreat? Why feels my heart its long-forgotten heat? Yet, yet I love... For other uses, see Alexander Pope (disambiguation). ...

Synopsis

Emotionally withdrawn Joel Barish (Carrey) and dysfunctional free spirit Clementine Kruczynski (Winslet) strike up a relationship on a Long Island Rail Road train. They are inexplicably drawn to each other, despite their radically different personalities. LIRR redirects here. ...

Although they apparently do not realize it at the time, Joel and Clementine are in fact former lovers, now separated after having spent two years together. We learn that after a nasty fight, Clementine hired a New York firm – Lacuna, Inc. – to erase all memories of their relationship. Upon discovering this, Joel was devastated and decided to undergo the procedure himself. However, while unconscious and having these same memories erased, he rebelled, realizing he wanted to hold on to his memories of Clementine after all. This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Much of the film takes place in Joel's mind as he struggles to preserve at least some memory of his love for Clementine. We watch their love and courtship go in reverse. The memories are slowly erased while Joel tries his best to resist the procedure and hide inside his own mind. For other uses, see Mind (disambiguation). ... Suitor redirects here. ... Reverse chronology is a method of story-telling whereby the plot is revealed in reverse order. ...

In separate and related story arcs, the employees of Lacuna are revealed to be more than peripheral characters in scenes which further demonstrate the harm caused by the memory-altering procedure. Mary (Dunst) turns out to have had an affair with the married doctor who heads the company (Wilkinson), a relationship which she agreed to have erased from her memory when it was discovered by his wife. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Once she learns of this, she steals the company's records and sends them to all of its clients. Patrick (Wood), lonely and socially inept, became fixated on Clementine and uses the personal mementos that Joel gave to Lacuna, as part of the procedure, in order to seduce Clementine. These romantic entanglements turn out to have a critical effect on the main story-line of Joel and Clementine's relationship.

Movie details

Detailed linear chronology

Sometime during or before 2002: Lacuna's Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), who is married, and his receptionist Mary Svevo (Kirsten Dunst), who has developed a "crush" on him, have a sexual affair. When it goes bad, Dr. Mierzwiak pressures Mary into having her memory of their relationship erased. Also see: 2002 (number). ... This article is about the English actor. ... Kirsten[1] Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, known for her roles in Interview with the Vampire (for which she received a Golden Globe nomination), The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, and Bring It On, as well as for her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in the...

Also sometime during or before 2002: Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) meet at a beach party in Montauk, New York, and subsequently become romantically involved. In late 2003, their relationship begins to take a turn for the worse having a fight in a Chinese restaurant. Also see: 2002 (number). ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Sometime in January or early February 2004: Joel and Clementine have a nasty fight. Clementine comes back at three A.M. very intoxicated and having damaged Joel's car. They have another nasty fight and she storms out. Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Soon after this, and before Valentine's Day, Clementine impulsively gets Joel erased from her memory by Lacuna. Patrick (Elijah Wood), one of Lacuna's technicians, falls for Clementine and uses the mementos of her relationship with Joel that she has surrendered to Lacuna to seduce her. For other uses, see Valentines Day (disambiguation). ... Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor. ...

Three days before Valentine's Day: Joel goes to the book-store, where Clementine fails to recognize him, and he sees her kissing Patrick. Joel learns that she had her memories of him erased. For other uses, see Valentines Day (disambiguation). ...

Just before Valentine's Day, Joel arranges with Lacuna to have his memory erased of Clementine as well. He is told to bring any mementos that might remind him of Clementine to Lacuna. However, in his haste, he doesn't get them all. Patrick acquires Joel's items as well.

That night, February 13, after 8:30 pm, Stan (Ruffalo) and Patrick go to Joel's apartment to do the procedure. There is an incomplete erasure of Joel's memory of his meeting with Dr. Mierzwiak. In his dream-like state, Joel is also "aware" of what is happening and is sometimes active in this dream-like world. is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Meanwhile, Mary has come over to see Stan. Patrick calls Clementine and finds out that she is upset about something. He asks Stan for permission to go see her, and once Stan realizes that this will leave him alone with Mary, he tells Patrick to go.

As these events unfold, Joel continues to watch his memories being erased and they gradually shift from the bitter, bleak ones related to his disengagement with Clementine to the moments they had together where they were both truly happy. Joel decides that he wants to cancel the procedure. Unfortunately, because he's inside of his own mind, he can do no more than open his eyes.

While Joel comes to this realization and begins actively resisting the erasure, we see Patrick arrive at Clementine's apartment. She is indeed distraught, expressing fears that she is getting old and that nothing seems to "make sense."

Impulsively, Clementine decides that she wants to go with Patrick to the frozen Charles River, where Patrick tries and fails to reenact the magic of the night that Clementine had described in a love letter to Joel, which Patrick found in Joel's mementos. The Charles River from the Boston side, facing Cambridge and the main campus of Harvard University. ...

Meanwhile back at Joel's apartment, Stan and Mary have just finished having sex. Suddenly, an alarm from the machine sounds and Stan discovers that somehow the process has gotten derailed (due to Joel's subconscious resistance). At Mary's insistence, Stan calls Dr. Mierzwiak at his home and informs him that he needs help with the case and Mierzwiak agrees to come over and take charge of things.

Once the doctor arrives, Mary shows that she is still very attracted to Dr. Mierzwiak. Noticing this and feeling uncomfortable about it, Stan goes outside leaving the two alone with Joel. After some awkward talk, Mary kisses the doctor. Mierzwiak initially tries to fend her off, but he quickly begins to kiss her back. Mierzwiak's wife drives up outside. During the ugly scene that follows, Mary learns of her prior history with the doctor. This is an enormous shock to her and she walks off.

Despite the distractions Mierzwiak and Stan are able to get the erasure process back on track. Inside Joel's subconsciousness, his efforts to fight this fail. Ultimately, he decides to simply enjoy his memories of Clementine before they fade away into nothing. The very last memory we see is that of Clementine and Joel meeting at the beach party at Montauk and sneaking into a house. Joel tells Clementine that he must leave to which Clementine replies by insisting that he stay to "make up" a proper good-bye. He stays past the point of the original memory to tell her that he loves her. She tells Joel to "meet me in Montauk." Joel doesn't remember this instruction, but impulsively goes the next day.

Valentine's Day 2004, Joel wakes up with his memory erased. He decides to skip work, takes the train to Montauk (acting on the instruction that his memory of Clementine gave him) and (re)meets Clementine there. They travel back on the same train and are drawn to each other. Back in Rockville Centre, Joel offers Clementine a ride back to her apartment. She invites him in for a drink and he leaves shortly afterwards with her number, promising to call her. When he does, they make a date to go to the frozen Charles the next day.

Meanwhile, Mary has quit her job and starts mailing out the memory files and tapes that she stole from the office to Lacuna's clients (including Clementine and Joel). The morning after their meeting on the Charles (i.e., February 16), Joel drives Clementine back to her house. She asks if she can come over to his place to sleep and then goes inside to get her toothbrush. While she's inside, Patrick approaches Joel and expresses puzzlement over why he is with Clementine after having his memory erased. is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Clementine picks up her mail (which includes the file that Mary sent to her the morning of Valentine's Day) and Joel and Clementine drive off. They listen to the tape of her bitterly recanting her relationship with Joel to Dr. Mierzwiak prior to her erasure. Joel, hurt and bewildered, makes Clementine get out of the car. When Clementine gets back to her apartment, she yells at Patrick, and it is clear that their short relationship is over.

Later that same day, Clementine drives herself to Joel's apartment. She finds him there listening to his tape about her, which he found in his mail upon getting home (this apparently also caused him to ransack his apartment looking for evidence of their relationship and discover the "skeleton" painting that he did of her). Clementine insists upon listening to Joel's tape, reasoning that it's only fair considering he heard all the hurtful things she said about him on her tape. But Clementine is deeply wounded and decides to leave. Joel follows her into the hallway and asks her to wait, not knowing what to do. Clementine tells Joel that their relationship is bound to fail, based on what they now know about it. However, Joel just shrugs and says "Okay." For a brief moment, Clementine looks bewildered by Joel's response, but then she quickly nods her head. Both of them begin to laugh over the absurdity of the situation. The ending shows them together once again on the beach.

Frames of reference

There were numerous frames of reference in Eternal Sunshine. One was reality, shown in the group of scenes at the beginning and end of the movie that take place just before, on, and after Valentine's Day. The rest of the scenes could be broadly classified as taking place in Joel's memory, but these can be subdivided into:

Some events that actually took place during Joel's erasure (i.e. technicians Stan and Patrick's conversation about Patrick's stealing Clementine's panties) bleed through to memories Joel is reliving.

Finally, a useful indicator for when a particular event is taking place is Clementine's hair color. Any time she is shown with blue hair indicates something in the present or a memory from the recent past (from about the time of the couple's disengagement). Clementine has green hair during the couple's first encounter, and shortly changes it to red when they become romantically involved. She then changes her hair color to 'tangerine' orange as their disengagement nears.

Ending

Kaufman made it very clear in an interview included with the published shooting script [3], that the story ended with the final scene of Joel and Clementine in the hallway, in which they appeared to have agreed to give their relationship one more try. He said it was up to individual members of the audience to decide what would have ultimately happened. This "unfinished" resolution of the story is foreshadowed with the following dialog in the scene where Joel relives the memory of approaching Clementine at the bookstore where she worked after they first met at the beach party:

There is debate as to what the repeated scene of Joel and Clem playing in the snow right before the credits means. In an interview also included with the published shooting script, Gondry said he wanted the scene of them playing in the snow to loop throughout the credits. This desire apparently sprang from the initial intent that the movie ends with the depressing revelation that Joel and Clementine spent the rest of their lives meeting, parting, and getting erased, only to meet again. However, Gondry said that this was not done, because it would ultimately detract from the credits.

In addition, several photo-stills that were from footage that wound up on the cutting room floor show Joel and Clementine sitting together on the steps to Joel's building with their arms around each other (and dressed in the same clothes that they wore in the hallway scene). It is unclear whether these were pictures taken for promotional purposes or from footage cut from the final scene at Joel's apartment. There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...

Targeted memory erasure

Targeted memory erasure is a fictional non-surgical procedure. Its purpose is the focused erasure of memories, particularly unwanted and painful memories, and it is a mild form of brain damage comparable to a "night of heavy drinking". The procedure is performed exclusively by Lacuna Incorporated. The characters of Joel and Clementine used this procedure to erase their memories of each other. As part of the screenwriting and promotion for the film, a backstory for the technology was made, including a spoof website for "Lacuna Inc." which is the source for the following information. For other uses, see Fiction (disambiguation). ... â€œSurgeonâ€ redirects here. ... For other uses, see Memory (disambiguation). ... Brain damage or brain injury is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells. ... In narratology, a back-story (also back story or backstory) is the history behind the situation extant at the start of the main story. ...

Special-effect depictions of the memories

Throughout the film we see a wide range of special effect devices and camera work to depict both the destruction of Joel's memories as well as his transitions from one to another. These range from quite subtle to extremely dramatic:

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Deleted and moved scenes

The shooting script — which has been published as a book (ISBN 1-55704-610-7) — and early drafts contain a fair amount of material that was either left on the cutting room floor or never shot.

A major change that came in editing was that the scene in the beginning with Joel and Clementine on the frozen Charles (the second time they'd been there chronologically) got moved from near the end of the movie to the beginning. According to the Kaufman interview published with the shooting script, this was done to make sure the audience liked Clementine, as without it, their initial impression of her, based upon scenes from the end of Joel and Clem's first relationship, might have been too negative.

Dropped scenes included dialogue on the train, scenes with Joel and Naomi (the girlfriend he had before Clementine), Joel in the Lacuna office describing his negative feelings about Clementine in more detail, and scenes showing Joel and Clementine on their first "date". The dialogue from the deleted Lacuna office scene is used later, when he is listening to a tape of himself describing Clementine's personality flaws, and some of the dialog from their first "date" is used in the last flashback scene, where the beach house is crumbling around the two of them. In fact, much of the content of the film was moved around in editing. A fair amount of scenes were changed on-the-spot by director Michel Gondry, including scenes showing the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus in the streets of Manhattan. During this scene, people actually tried interviewing Jim Carrey. You can hear someone say something like "Speak to me." Another dropped scene was one that took place in a bar where a very drunk Clementine tried to make Joel jealous by coming onto another man (which might have prompted Joel's claim in his taped interview with Mierzwiak that Clementine was very promiscuous). Ringling Bros. ...

Another deleted scene that appears in the special two-disc DVD set is an extended scene in the doctor's office when Mary Svevo is listening to the tape of her file. Mary is saying in the tape why she should have the procedure done, especially after having to get an abortion.

Awards and recognition

Kaufman, Gondry, and Bismuth won the 2005 Academy Award for best original screenplay for Eternal Sunshine. Winslet was also nominated for best actress but lost to Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby. // The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ... Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is a two-time Oscar winning American actress. ... Million Dollar Baby is an Academy Award winning 2004 dramatic film directed by Clint Eastwood. ...

Roger Ebert commented, "Despite jumping through the deliberately disorienting hoops of its story, "Eternal Sunshine" has an emotional center, and that's what makes it work."^[2] The Australian Film Institute (AFI), established in 1958, is an organisation that promotes Australian film and television through the annual AFI Awards, a membership program and AFI film events throughout the year. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... ValdÃs Ã“skarsdÃ³ttir is an award-winning Icelandic film editor, whose work as an editor includes The Celebration, Les MisÃ©rables, Finding Forrester and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. ... Sir David Lean, KBE (March 25, 1908 â€“ April 16, 1991) was an English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Doctor Zhivago . ... The Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) is organization of film reviewers from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, based publications. ... CÃ©sar Award for Best Foreign Film: 1976: Scent of a Woman (Italy), directed by Dino Risi 1977: We All Loved Each Other So Much (Italy), directed by Ettore Scola 1978: A Special Day (Italy), directed by Ettore Scola 1979: The Tree with the Wooden Clogs (Italy), directed by Ermanno... The Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... IFP/New York is a twenty-five-year-old, not-for-profit membership and advocacy organization serving the independent film community as a source for networking and support while promoting film as a vital and influential public art form. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The London Film Critics Circle is a department of The Critics Circle, started in 1913 as an association for working British critics. ... The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures was founded in 1909 in New York City, just 13 years after the birth of cinema, to protest New York City Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. ... The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) , the professional association for film journalists, scholars and historians who publish their reviews, interviews and essays exclusively or primarily in the online media. ... The Screen Actors Guild (S.A.G.) is the labor union representing over 120,000 film actors in the United States. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... The Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) is an organization of film reviewers from Toronto-based publications. ... Annual awards given out by the Writers Guild of America for outstanding achievements in film, TV, or radio writing. ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ...

Time Out London summed up their review by saying, "the formidable Gondry/ Kaufman/Carrey axis works marvel after marvel in expressing the bewildering beauty and existential horror of being trapped inside one's own addled mind, and in allegorising the self-preserving amnesia of a broken but hopeful heart."^[3] The distinctive Time Out logo, seen on all its publications Time Out is a publishing company based in London, England. ...

In 2006, in issue 201 of Empire magazine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was voted #83 in their 201 Greatest Movies of All Time poll as voted for by the readers. Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Emap Consumer Media since July 1989. ...

Kate Winslet's performance as Clementine was included in Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time at #81.

In 2007, critic site Rotten Tomatoes dubbed it the #2 on a list of top Sci-Fi films. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

The film is currently ranked #46 in The Internet Movie Database's top 250 films of all time. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ...

Music and soundtrack

The soundtrack album for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was released by Hollywood Records on March 16, 2004. The soundtrack album for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was released by Hollywood Records on March 16, 2004. ... In film formats, the soundtrack is the physical area of the film which records the synchronized sound. ... Hollywood Records is a record label owned by Disney. ... is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The score was composed by Los Angeles musician Jon Brion. Other songs featured are from artists such as Jeff Lynne's E.L.O. ("Mr. Blue Sky" was featured in trailers and television spots but not used in the film), The Polyphonic Spree, The Willowz, and Don Nelson. Beck, in a collaboration with Jon Brion, provides a cover version of the Korgis' "Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime". Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... Jon Brion at The Sunset Tavern in Seattle (photo by Nadja Dee Tanaka) Jon Brion (born 1962) is an American rock and pop multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer. ... Jeff Lynne (born December 30, 1947 in Shard End, Birmingham) is a Grammy Award-winning English rock songwriter, singer, guitarist and record producer. ... â€œELOâ€ redirects here. ... Standin In The Rain â€“ 4:20 Big Wheels â€“ 5:10 Summer and Lightning â€“ 4:13 Mr. ... The Polyphonic Spree is a self-described choral symphonic rock group from the Dallas, Texas area. ... The Willowz are a garage rock band based in Anaheim, California, formed 2002. ... This article is about the musician. ... In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... The Korgis The Korgis was a British pop band that had their biggest hit with the single Everybodys Got to Learn Sometime in 1980. ...

During the scene where Clementine enters Joel's Apartment finding Joel listening to the tape about Clementine while staring at the skeleton painting of Clementine, the underscore is a poignant arrangement of "Oh My Darling Clementine." The harmonic voicings are such where the melody is clear up until the point of the line "you are lost and gone forever," where the arranger opted for use of dramatic diminished chords in the harmony thereby understating the fact that the two are gone and lost forever having no memory of each other.

Three songs from old Hindi movies can be heard played in the back ground. "Mera Man Tera Pyaasa" (My mind, your thirst") from the movie "Gambler" performed by Mohammed Rafi, "Tera Sang Pyaar Mein" performed by Lata Mangeshkar, "Wada Na Tod" ("Break not the promise") by Lata Mangeshkar from the movie "Dil Tujhko Diya" ("Gave my heart to you"), (when Joel is invited by Clementine to her apartment for a drink). All the three songs are listed in the original soundtrack credits.

The musical score from the film's opening scenes have also been used in television and cinema adverts in the UK for mobile phone company Vodafone. Vodafone Group Plc is a mobile network operator headquartered in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. It is the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world by turnover and has a market value of about Â£84. ...

Music relating to the movie

The band Circa Survive have a song called "Meet Me In Montauk" on their album, Juturna (2005). The title comes from the line Clementine whispers in Joel's ear just before the last memory of her is erased. Other songs on the album such as "Wish Resign" and "Oh, Hello" were also inspired by the movie. Circa Survive is a rock band consisting of former Saosin vocalist Anthony Green and members of the now-defunct This Day Forward. ... Juturna is post-hardcore band Circa Survives debut album, released on April 19, 2005 by Equal Vision Records. ...

One-man band Backseat Goodbye makes a reference to the movie title in the song Technicolor Eyes. (I like the autumn's leaves and bright eyes, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind stands strong as my favorite of all time.)

The former bandmates of Blame Twilight recorded a song called "The Dining Dead" in reference to a scene from the film.

Many bands have referenced the movie in song, including Bayside in the song "Montauk", Of A Revolution in the song "Love and Memories", and Christmas Fuller Project in the song "Meet Me In Montauk". Bayside is the name of some places in the United States. ... Of A Revolution (or O.A.R.) is an American rock band consisting of Marc Roberge (lead vocals & guitar), Chris Culos (drums), Richard On (lead guitar), Benj Gershman (bass), and Jerry DePizzo (saxophone and guitar). ...

Film setting and locations

The film is set largely in the New York City suburb of Rockville Centre and Montauk, Long Island, and in New York City, as well as having a memorable scene set on the Charles River in Boston.^{[citation needed]} Rockville Centre is a village located in New Yorks Nassau County in the United States. ... Montauk is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York on the South Shore of Long Island. ... This article is about the island in New York State. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area - City 232. ...

According to the end credits, it was filmed in and around Brooklyn, Manhattan, Montauk, Mount Vernon, Wainscott, and Yonkers, New York; also Bayonne and West Orange, New Jersey. The Barnes and Noble scenes were filmed at the Columbia University Bookstore. This article is about the borough of New York City. ... For other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation). ... Montauk is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York on the South Shore of Long Island. ... For other places with the same name, see Mount Vernon (disambiguation). ... Wainscott is a hamlet (and census-designated place) located in Suffolk County, New York on the South Shore of Long Island. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the state. ... Bayonne is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, south of Jersey City. ... Map of West Orange Township in Essex County West Orange is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

All of the train scenes were shot aboard a Metro-North Railroad train along the New Haven Line, and the Mount Vernon East train station substituted for the Rockville Centre station. The Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company, or MTA Metro-North Railroad, or, more commonly, Metro-North, is a suburban commuter rail service that is run and managed by an authority of New York State, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or, more simply, the MTA. Metro-North runs service between New York... Metro North Railroads New Haven Line runs from New Haven, Connecticut to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on trackage of the former New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad owned by the State of Connecticut and the State of New York. ... The Mount Vernon East Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Mount Vernon, New York via the New Haven Line (not to be confused with Mount Vernon West on the Harlem Line). ... Connections MTA Long Island Bus All Island Taxi Platforms 2 Parking Yes Bicycle facilities Yes Other information Opened 1867 Rebuilt 1881, 1901, 1950 Accessible Owned by MTA Fare zone 7 Services Rockville Centre is a major railroad station along the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. ...

DVD

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is available in the U.S. in separate anamorphic widescreen and full screen editions as of September 28, 2004. Both widescreen and full screen editions carry English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, English DTS 5.1 Surround and French Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks. It is available as a one disc Widescreen Collector's Edition worldwide with bonus features. Image File history File links Gnome-globe. ... Anamorphic widescreen is a cinematography and photography technique for capturing a widescreen picture on standard 35mm film. ... is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Dolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of lossy audio compression technologies by Dolby Laboratories. ... Multichannel audio is the name for a variety of techniques for expanding and enriching the sound of audio playback by recording additional sound channels that can be reproduced on additional speakers. ... DTS (also known as Digital Theater Systems), owned by DTS, Inc. ...

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The film was released on HD DVD on April 24, 2007. is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

Contents

Synopsis

Movie details

Detailed linear chronology

Frames of reference

Ending

Targeted memory erasure

Special-effect depictions of the memories

Deleted and moved scenes

Awards and recognition

Music and soundtrack

Music relating to the movie

Film setting and locations

DVD

See also

References

External links

Contents

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Movie details

Detailed linear chronology

Frames of reference

Ending

Targeted memory erasure

Special-effect depictions of the memories

Deleted and moved scenes

Awards and recognition

Music and soundtrack

Music relating to the movie

Film setting and locations

DVD

See also

References

External links

Synopsis