Watched: 09/21/2026
Format: TCM on DVR
Viewing: First
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Somehow I'd never seen Barry Lyndon (1975). I assume some part of my brain would look at the film and say "it won't be fun, and it's 3 hours" and would tap out before I could hit play.
In the past 20 years or so, the common wisdom I received in the 1990's - that the movie was dull or not Kubrick's best - seems to have evaporated and the film has received serious reconsideration. But aside from "people in ruffles cavort in what looks like the second half of the 18th Century", I had no idea what the film was about. That said, every film student knew that Kubrick's movie was shot with very special lenses, using only candlelight in many scenes -something unheard of in film production. And I knew Barry Lyndon was supposed to be one of the most visually stunning movie ever produced, which... I mean, Kubrick. You get that as part of the package.
