How and Why the Orgy Scene Was Censored for Theaters

Welcome to IndieWire’s “Eyes Wide Shut” Week. The password is, of course, “fidelio,” but we’ve already taken care of admittance, inviting you into five days of stories celebrating Stanley Kubrick’s swan-song masterpiece from 1999. Criterion Collection has just unveiled its 4K restoration of the classic erotic odyssey starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, and it…

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Does ‘The Beatles Anthology’ Really Need Another Encore?

“It’s almost impossible to get the definitive story,” Paul McCartney theorizes in the brand-new addition to “The Beatles Anthology,” which sparked a mid-’90s wave of Beatlemania. “Because people look at things from different points of view.” It’s a telling line, one that explains why, 30 years on from the original’s premiere, and a further 25…

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Composer Brian Tyler on How ‘Nuremberg’ Score Changed His Perspective

Writer/director James Vanderbilt began work on the World War II drama “Nuremberg” over ten years ago, when he first read Jack El-Hei’s “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist.” That book, about the relationship between imprisoned Nazi official Hermann Göring and the psychiatrist assigned to assess his mental state in preparation for the Nuremberg trials of 1945…

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‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Star Todd Field on Stanley Kubrick and Tom Cruise

Welcome to IndieWire’s “Eyes Wide Shut” Week. The password is, of course, “fidelio,” but we’ve already taken care of admittance, inviting you into five days of stories celebrating Stanley Kubrick’s swan-song masterpiece from 1999. Criterion Collection has just unveiled its 4K restoration of the classic erotic mystery starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, and it…

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