In your Eyes.

Video Business, March, 2000 by Pearl, Cyril

Purists are crying "Foul!" over this week's release of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut on DVD (color, R, 159 min. plus supplements, Dolby 5.1 Surround, fullscreen, 38 chapters, $24.98). Most have been screaming since last summer when digital images were inserted over 65 seconds of the film's notorious masked orgy sequence to obtain an R rating from the MPAA.

Warner states that what it has released is the director's cut, since Kubrick was to deliver an R film to the studio--indeed, it is the same film that was presented theatrically in the U.S. (The digital imaging was reportedly overseen by Jan Harlan, Kubrick's executive producer of the past 20 years). Copulation and full-frontal nudity aside, the digitalization, which appears to be silly and unnecessary,...

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