Stanley Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon” (1975) is a meditation — an elegy told in slow, flickering motion, drifting across the screen like smoke from a musket fired long ago. For a director known for cold ...
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He found his solution in an unlikely place: the Space Race. During the 1960s, NASA had commissioned a set of extraordinary ...
All of Stanley Kubrick’s features look better now than when they were first released, but Barry Lyndon, which fared poorly at the box office in 1975, remains his most underrated. It may also be his ...
How does an Irish lad without prospects become part of 18th-century English nobility? For Barry Lyndon (Ryan O'Neal) the answer is: any way he can! His climb to wealth and privilege is the enthralling ...