"Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
5.1 Dolby Digital stereo, colour, 1.85:1, 35mm.
Directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. A sexual and psychological thriller starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, released in 1999. The narrative concerns marital jealousy and temptation, and it seemed to prefigure the collapse of Cruise and Kidman's own off-screen marriage. Eyes Wide Shut was the subject of intense speculation and rumour, climaxing in a frenzy of anticipation. The increasingly lengthy periods between Kubrick's completed film projects caused much online debate. The secrecy in which Kubrick shrouded each of his productions, and his seemingly endless filming schedules, added to the internet gossip. Kubrick did, however, allow stills photographer Manuel Harlan onto the otherwise closed set.
Before the film's premiere, the scene in which Cruise and Kidman kiss in front of a mirror was released in isolation as a teaser-trailer at the ShoWest trade fair. Intriguingly, the two versions of this kissing scene (the one in the film itself and the one in the teaser) differ slightly. The film version is shorter, is cropped on all four sides, and utilises an alternate take for the moment when Kidman removes her glasses. Kubrick died of a heart-attack a few days after completing Eyes Wide Shut and it is perhaps no coincidence that this posthumously-released film is not available in the version he originally intended.
In America, black-cloaked figures were digitally inserted to mask the simulated sex in the film's orgy sequence, in order to secure an 'R'-rating from the MPAA. (Like A Clockwork Orange, the film's extensive nudity is exclusively female and largely gratuitous.) The digital figures were, thankfully, not present when the film was screened in the UK. However, for the UK release the orgy scene was censored in a different way: a recital from the Bhagavad Gita during the Meditations music in the orgy scene was removed from the soundtrack, replaced by meaningless chanting.
The Bhagavad Gita recital is not present in any video edition of the film, though it is included on the film's soundtrack CD. All Warners VHS and DVDs are 1.33:1 unmatted (Kubrick's preferred video format for the film), though they have numerous alterations: they are clearly cropped when compared with the ShoWest teaser, a reflected crew-member in the bathroom overdose scene was digitally erased, the jarring reel-changes were smoother, and the intentional graininess of the image was reduced. All NTSC editions have the orgy sex digitally censored whereas all PAL and SeCAM editions do not. Italian inserts were filmed to replace the English-language text in the warning letter handed to Bill and the newspaper article he reads, and are available on the Italian PAL VHS version."
There is also a web page that has photos that compare scenes between the US and the International versions. I have the link but I am not sure if I can post it.