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William Makepeace Thackeray's tale of a roguishly charming 18th century Englishman, card shark and con-man whose good fortune and luck finally run out.
"Pure cinema. Its aching beauty will wipe you out." Frank Rich, New York Post
"...a visual delight..." Motion Picture Guide
"Ravishing adaptation of the classic Thackeray novel..." VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever
Editor's Note
BARRY LYNDON is Stanley Kubrick's epic costume drama based on William Makepeace Thackeray's picaresque novel. It tells the story of a young rogue who wanders through life getting lost in various adventures, meeting his share of women and oddball characters. When Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal, trying desperately to maintain an Irish brogue) becomes jealous of Captain Quin's advances on Barry's beloved cousin, he challenges the man to a duel. Winning the duel, young Barry is forced to leave his home and his mother, and off on his adventures he goes. He meets thieves, lonely soldier brides, Prussian army leaders, and British widows, inventing new stories about himself at every turn of the road.BARRY LYNDON is lush and magnificent, sparkling with color, every frame reminiscent of the finest European art. The blues of the Prussian army uniforms and the reds of the British contrast sharply with the majestic green land and mountains in nearly every background. Kubrick often begins a shot close in, then zooms out to reveal the beautiful natural landscape and ornate rooms surrounding the now seemingly insignificant characters. With rousing performances from O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Hardy Kruger, and Leonard Rossiter, jaw-dropping camerawork, spectacular natural lighting, and a marvelous classical-music soundtrack painstakingly put together by Kubrick, BARRY LYNDON is a dramatic romantic epic that may be Kubrick's most beautiful film.
Plot Summary
Stanley Kubrick's unique spectacle tells the picaresque tale of Redmond Barry, a rougish youth who starts his foray into the world as a likable Irish lad and ends up a rakish gambler. After a jealous Barry shoots his beloved cousin's fiancé in a duel, he is forced to flee Barryville. He embarks on a journey that leads him to the continent as a soldier--a job he finds less than pleasant. But he survives and, hardened by his stretch in the army, makes his way into the highest gambling circles of Europe, where his newly acquired ruthlessness stands him in good stead--until he soon finds himself on the edge of utter ruin.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 10/23/2007 |
| Original Release Date: 1975 | | Catalog ID: 120017 | | UPC: 00085391200178 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew | Hardy Kruger | | Marisa Berenson | | Patrick Magee | | Ryan O'Neal | | Jan Harlan - Executive Producer | | John Alcott - Cinematographer | | Ken Adam - Production Designer | | Leonard Rosenman - Original Music By | | Roy Walker - Art Director | | Stanley Kubrick - Director | | Stanley Kubrick - Producer | | Stanley Kubrick - Screenplay | | Tony Lawson - Editor | | William Makepeace Thakeray - Based On Novel By |
| Awards |
Winner (1976) | | | British Academy Awards, Stanley Kubrick, Best Direction | |
Nominee (1976) | | | British Academy Awards, Ken Adam, Best Art Direction | | | British Academy Awards, Ulla-Britt Soderlund, Milena Canonero, Best Costume Design | | | British Academy Awards, Barry Lyndon, Best Film | |
Winner (1976) | | | Oscar, Ken Adam, et. al., Best Art Direction-Set Decoration | | | Oscar, John Alcott, Best Cinematography | | | Oscar, Ulla-Britt Soderlund, Milena Canonero, Best Costume Design | | | Oscar, Leonard Rosenman, Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation | |
Nominee (1976) | | | Oscar, Stanley Kubrick, Best Director | | | Oscar, Stanley Kubrick, Best Picture | | | Oscar, Stanley Kubrick, Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted From Other Material |
| Memorable Quotes| "I have taken the ribbon from around my neck and hidden it somewhere on my person. You are free to look for it wherever you like, and I shall think very little of you if you do not find it."----Nora Brady (Gay Hamilton) to Barry Redmond (Ryan O'Neal) |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...Loll in the beauty and cruelty of BARRY LYNDON..." 01/11/2002 p.33FilmCritic.com 9 of 10
"Stanley Kubrick's minor masterpiece is often overlooked -- even scorned -- by those who claim it to be pretentious and slow. Well, it is pretentious and slow, but it's still an exceptional film. In fact, it's probably my favorite period piece ever. Kubrick paints this film to look like an Old Master, with nary a hair out of place to take us from its early 1800s setting. It's gorgeous to look at, even if you don't dig Barry's story. But Ryan O'Neal turns in his best performance ever, bar none, as the title anti-hero, a middle-class Irish lad who joins the British army, finds success as a gambler, marries into money (and a heady title), and ends up duelling his stepson to the death. Barry -- over the course of decades -- ends up far worse than he began. His tragedy is a cautionary tale that speaks volumes even today. Hell, set it in New York in the 1990s-2000s, and you could make the exact same movie about Martha Stewart." - Christopher Null
Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
"Stanley Kubrick's ""Barry Lyndon"" is almost aggressive in its cool detachment It defies us to care, it forces us to remain detached about its stately elegance. Many of its developments take place offscreen, the narrator consistently tells us what's about to happen and we learn long before the film ends that its hero will die poor and childless. This news doesn't much depress us, because Kubrick has directed Ryan O'Neal in the title role as if he were a still life. It's difficult to imagine such tumultuous events whirling around such a passive character...Some people find ""Barry Lyndon"" a fascinating, if cold, exercise in masterful filmmaking; others find it a terrific bore. I have little sympathy for the second opinion; how can anyone be bored by such an audacious film, unless they've become such passive filmgoers that no movie can involve them unless it caters to them? ""Barry Lyndon"" isn't a great success, and it's not a great entertainment, but it's a great example of directorial vision: Kubrick saying he's going to make this material function as an illustration of the way he sees the world." - Roger Ebert
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