Which Kubrick film features a Christmas party scene?

Which Kubrick film features a Christmas party scene? The answer is Eyes Wide Shut. The 1999 film opens with Dr. Bill Harford and his wife, Alice, attending an extravagant Christmas party at the Manhattan home of Bill's patient, Victor Ziegler. The event introduces the film's themes of secrecy, desire, privilege, and the contrast between a polished public world and hidden private behavior.

At the party, Bill reconnects with his old medical-school friend Nick Nightingale, who now works as a pianist. Bill is also drawn into an emergency when Mandy, a woman involved with Ziegler, overdoses in an upstairs bathroom. The Christmas setting continues throughout much of the film, with colored lights, trees, and decorations creating a dreamlike visual atmosphere.

A common mix-up comes from the film's masquerade imagery. Eyes Wide Shut was adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Dream Story, whose opening gathering is a Carnival masquerade rather than a Christmas party. Kubrick relocated the story to contemporary New York and made Christmas a recurring visual and thematic motif.