Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon (1975) is an adventure, drama, history film. It opens when an Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
28 May 1919, Eaglescliffe, Durham, England, UK
20 August 1909, Pancras, London, England, UK
19 May 1937, Birmingham, England, UK
4 October 1943, London, England, UK
10 February 1928, Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, UK
3 October 1911, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK
1912, Ireland
24 September 1944, Wolmirsleben, Germany
29 March 1938, Birmingham, England, UK
19 October 1925, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
23 November 1962, Margate, Kent, England, UK
May 21, 1965 in England, UK
1928, Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
24 February 1945, Dublin, Ireland
16 June 1915, Highgate, London, England, UK
24 July 1922, Kent, England, UK
12 April 1928, Wedding, Berlin, Germany
27 July 1913, Limerick, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
27 June 1918, Rush, County Dublin, Ireland
3 August 1937, Stepney, London, England, UK
1933, East Stonehouse, Devon, England, UK
15 February 1947, New York City, New York, USA
27 July 1925, Larne, County Antrim, Ireland
1925, London, England, UK
July 31, 2016
As leisurely as it is painterly, this is a masterclass in cinematography - famously, Kubrick used nothing but natural light in all but a few scenes. Don't miss the chance to watch it in a cinema.
July 29, 2016
Every frame of every battle scene or courtly interlude is exhaustively and exquisitely detailed.
July 31, 2016
This is a period film like no other, a slow but utterly hypnotic tale of an Irish youth whose adventures and misfortunes take in the Seven Years' War, the gambling clubs of Europe and marriage into the English aristocracy.
May 08, 2007
Ryan O'Neal's excellent performance captures the shallow opportunism endemic to the title character who is brought down as much by his own flaws as by the mores of the ordered social structure of 18th-century England.
December 17, 2016
It's gorgeous to look at, with its reverse zooms that slowly widen to stunning rural panoramas, its beautiful framing, its delight in decorative detail. You feel you are watching a masterclass in how to recreate the look and feel of the late 18th century.
May 08, 2007
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 greatest.
January 30, 2009
One of cinema's most heartfelt and sustained (it runs over three hours), if cynical, visions of an individual's powerlessness.
July 31, 2016
Ryan O'Neal has the role of his career as Redmond Barry, an Irish rogue who lies, fights and sleeps his way to prominence in 18th century society.
May 23, 2007
Stanley Kubrick's magisterial Thackeray adaptation now stands as one of his greatest and most savagely ironic films, not to mention one of the few period pieces on celluloid so transporting that it seems to predate the invention of cameras.
May 08, 2007
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.
July 25, 2016
The great director's least satisfying, most disconcerting film - and that's what makes it extraordinary.
