Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975): BFI Southbank, 3.30pm
This movie, which is also being screened on February 11th, is part of the Sight and Sound Greatest Films poll season. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
All of Stanley Kubrick's features look better now than when they were
first released, but Barry Lyndon,
which fared poorly at the box office in 1975, remains his most
underrated. It may also be his greatest. This personal, idiosyncratic,
melancholy, and long (three hours) adaptation of the Thackeray novel is
exquisitely shot in natural light (or, in night scenes, candlelight) by
John Alcott, with frequent use of slow backward zooms that distance us,
both historically and emotionally, from its rambling picaresque
narrative about an 18th-century Irish upstart (Ryan O'Neal). Despite its
ponderous, funereal moods and pacing, the film is a highly accomplished
piece of storytelling, building to one of the most suspenseful duels
ever staged. It also repays close attention as a complex and fascinating
historical meditation, as enigmatic in its way as 2001: A Space
Odyssey. With Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger, and Leonard
Rossiter; narrated by Michael Hordern.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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