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barry lyndon

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Stanley Kubrick, 181 mins, UK, 1975, 35mm, Colour. Source/Courtesy: Warner Bros./Roadshow

Barry Lyndon

Based on Thackeray's (Vanity Fair) lesser-known first novel, Kubrick's exquisite foray into period drama is indeed "the saddest of swashbucklers and the most melancholy of bodice-rippers" Village Voice.

The film's stunning, Academy Award®-winning production design and cinematography (featuring a custom-built NASA satellite lens!) resonate in more recent historical sagas by Scorsese, Campion and others.

Kubrick's always-audacious casting (then TV heartthrob Ryan O'Neil and supermodel Marissa Berenson) produced surprisingly perfect 18th century characterisations.