Barry Lyndon

The Resource Barry Lyndon
Label
Barry Lyndon
Statement of responsibility
Warner Bros., a Warner Communications company, presents a film by Stanley Kubrick ; written for the screen, produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick ; executive producer, Jan Harlan
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  • eng
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
"Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling version of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O'Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years' War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of his career, Kubrick recreated the decadent surfaces and intricate social codes of the period, evoking the light and texture of eighteenth-century painting with the help of pioneering cinematic techniques and lavish costume and production design, all of which earned Academy Awards. The result is a masterpiece--a sardonic, devastating portrait of a vanishing world whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its heart"--Container
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TEFMT
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videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, John Alcott; editor, Tony Lawson; music adapted and conducted by Leonard Rosenman
Dewey number
791.43/72
Intended audience
MPAA rating: PG
Language note
English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired (SDH)
LC call number
PN1997
LC item number
.B268 2017
PerformerNote
  • Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger, Steven Berkoff, Gay Hamilton, Marie Kean, Diana Koerner, Murray Melvin, Frank Middlemass, Andre Morell, Arthur O'Sullivan, Godfrey Quigley, Leonard Rossiter, Philip Stone, Leon Vitali
  • Narrator, Michael Hordern
Runtime
185
Series statement
The Criterion collection
Series volume
897
Technique
live action
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