Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick’s masterful adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s picaresque novel follows its eponymous Irish rake (Ryan O’Neal) as he moves through English aristocracy in the 18th century. Barry Lyndon has been belatedly hailed as one of Kubrick’s greatest achievements, and remains a reference to many directors, including Lanthimos himself.
The first half of Stanley Kubrick’s masterful adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s picaresque novel plays like a documentary of 18th-century manners, pairing the external world that the eponymous Irish rake (Ryan O’Neal) is so anxious to conquer with interior shots that are truly revelatory; ever the innovator, Kubrick fit a 50mm still-camera lens onto a motion-picture camera, permitting him and Oscar-winning cinematographer John Alcott to film even in the low light of England’s 18th-century domains. The resulting mood is crucial to the melodrama that envelops the film’s second half, as Lyndon’s physical gallantry turns into the growing confusion of an overreaching bloke who, in Kubrick’s words, “gets in over his head in situations he can’t understand.” Dismissed by many critics upon its initial release, Barry Lyndon has been belatedly hailed as one of Kubrick’s greatest achievements, and remains a reference for many directors, including Lanthimos himself on The Favourite.
Following this screening, join Yorgos Lanthimos for a special onstage conversation and a screening of The Favourite. See more information here.
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