Barry Lyndon
by Stanley Kubrick
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Actor: Hardy Kr?ger, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Ryan O'Neal, Steven BerkoffDirector: Stanley Kubrick
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 184 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Barry Lyndon
Movie Review: Beautiful
Summary: 5 Stars
A film as visually magnificent and painstakingly photographed as "Barry Lyndon" deserves a fine transfer from a pristine print, and this DVD is as as good a presentation as one could expect from the format. This edition is presented in the matted 1.66:1 theatrical format instead of the 1.37:1 aspect ratio in which Kubrick shot it and intended for televised broadcast and VHS editions. However, this edition is NOT anamorphically enhanced for 16x9 display. If that's what you want, you're better off waiting for it on a Blu-Ray edition. Leon Vitali has suggested in interviews that the 1080i version will not be anamorphic; let's hope that he's mistaken!
Forty-seven chapters of the film can be selected from eight lists of titles. English, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles are available, and all of these are competently translated and rendered. It should be noted that the French dubbed dialogue track from the 1999 Kubrick Collection edition is not featured on this disc, or on the second edition of the Kubrick Collection.
A listing of the many awards that the film garnered is available, as though we need be reminded of Kubrick's and Alcott's superior efforts. The fatuous theatrical trailer is also on disc for those who want to watch one of the dullest trailers in film history: a slapshod pastiche of the film's most immediately recognizable scenes narrated by some bore who reads positive reviews of it that were hurriedly scribbled out by film critics. Ugh!
Summary of Barry Lyndon
Thackeray's tale of a roguishly charming 18th century Englishman, card shark and con-man whose good fortune and luck finally run out.In 1975 the world was at Stanley Kubrick's feet. His films Dr.?Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, released in the previous dozen years, had provoked rapture and consternation--not merely in the film community, but in the culture at large. On the basis of that smashing hat trick, Kubrick was almost certainly the most famous film director of his generation, and absolutely the one most likely to rewire the collective mind of the movie audience. And what did this radical, at-least-20-years-ahead-of-his-time filmmaker give the world in 1975? A stately, three-hour costume drama based on an obscure Thackeray novel from 1844. A picaresque story about an Irish lad (Ryan O'Neal, then a major star) who climbs his way into high society, Barry Lyndon bewildered some critics (Pauline Kael called it "an ice-pack of a movie") and did only middling business with patient audiences. The film was clearly a technical advance, with its unique camerawork (incorporating the use of prototype Zeiss lenses capable of filming by actual candlelight) and sumptuous production design. But its hero is a distinctly underwhelming, even unsympathetic fellow, and Kubrick does not try to engage the audience's emotions in anything like the usual way.
Why, then, is Barry Lyndon a masterpiece? Because it uncannily captures the shape and rhythm of a human life in a way few other films have; because Kubrick's command of design and landscape is never decorative but always apiece with his hero's journey; and because every last detail counts. Even the film's chilly style is thawed by the warm narration of the great English actor Michael Hordern and the Irish songs of the Chieftains. Poor Barry's life doesn't matter much in the end, yet the care Kubrick brings to the telling of it is perhaps the director's most compassionate gesture toward that most peculiar species of animal called man. And the final, wry title card provides the perfect Kubrickian sendoff--a sentiment that is even more poignant since Kubrick's premature death. --Robert Horton
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