Barry Lyndon

1975
PG
3h 5m

IMDb RATING

8.1/10

187K

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An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Director
- Stanley Kubrick
Writers
- Stanley Kubrick
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Stars

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IMDb RATING

8.1/10

187K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

1,937

108

Director
- Stanley Kubrick
Writers
- Stanley Kubrick
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Top rated movie #185

Won 4 Oscars
- 17 wins & 14 nominations total

Trivia
Production was moved from Ireland to England after writer, producer, and director Stanley Kubrick received word that his name was on an I.R.A. hit list for directing a movie featuring English soldiers in Ireland. Consequently, several scenes were dropped.

Goofs
The narrator states, early on, "About this time, the United Kingdom was in a state of great excitement". The United Kingdom came into being in 1801, when it merged with the Kingdom of Ireland, before which it was known merely as the Kingdom of Great Britain. In fact the Act of Union of 1707, which joined England and Scotland, refers to "the United Kingdom of Great Britain" or "the United Kingdom" throughout the text. "United Kingdom" was in common use at the time of the film.

Quotes
Title card: [End title card] EPILOGUE
Title card: It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarreled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor they are all equal now

Alternate versions
The 2011 Blu-ray remaster, which also appeared on the digital platforms, plastered the Saul Bass variant of the Warner Bros. Pictures logo with the black and white Warner Bros. Pictures shield.

Connections
Edited into Hai-Kubrick (1999)

Soundtracks
Piano Trio in E-flat, Op 100 (second movement)
Composed by Franz Schubert
piano: Anthony Goldstone
cello: Moray Welsh
violin: Ralph Holmes

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10/10

I agree with Scorcese

Martin Scorcese reportedly considers this to be Kubrick's best film. I must agree, and I would say it's his best by some fair margin. I've never seen a film with photography that even begins to approach that in Barry Lyndon. But everyone mentions the photography. The three things that most decisively set this film apart from all of Kubrick's others and really haven't been mentioned enough are its enormous heart, its uncompromising spirit, and the way it seems to suspend time over and over again, simultaneously standing still yet flowing along easily, almost breathlessly. If you watch it expecting A Clockwork Orange or The Shining, you'll be very disappointed and may end up calling it long and boring, but if you set aside an entire evening and surrender yourself totally to its magic, I swear you'll be looking for yourself in Stunland a few hours later. I's time to treat yourself to Barry Lyndon. You may be shocked at discovering what's been there for so long.