Film
Barry Lyndon
- 8PM
With sardonic wit and decadent detail, Stanley Kubrick takes on the genre of historical drama with magnificent results. Adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel about a wiley Irish peasant’s ascent to the English aristocracy, Barry Lyndon is a study in excess. Kubrick used pioneering cinematic techniques—including shooting almost every scene in a gorgeous suffusion of natural light—to capture Lyndon’s picaresque journey through poverty, battle, riches, romance, and moral depravity with the clarity and brilliance of an 18th-century painting.
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