BARRY LYNDON - DVD-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1975
• Genre: Adventure, Drama
• Plot: Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision 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 cinematographic 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.
• Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff, Gay Hamilton, Marie Kean, Diana Körner, Murray Melvin, Frank Middlemass, André Morell, Arthur O'Sullivan, Godfrey Quigley, Leonard Rossiter, Philip Stone, Leon Vitali, John Bindon, Roger Booth, Billy Boyle, Jonathan Cecil, Peter Cellier, Geoffrey Chater, Anthony Dawes, Bernard Hepton, Barry Jackson, Wolf Kahler, Pat Laffan, Ferdy Mayne, David Morley, Liam Redmond, Pat Roach, Dominic Savage, George Sewell, Anthony Sharp, John Sharp, Roy Spencer, Harry Towb, Michael Hordern, Norman Gay, Katharina Kubrick, Vivian Kubrick, Gary Taylor, Stanley Kubrick, William Makepeace Thackeray
• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• Runtime: 3:05
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie