Barry Lyndon
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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!
Movie Review: The most realistic movie I have ever seen
Summary: 5 Stars
I have not seen BL since it came out, at which time I watched it in the theater at least ten times. I was appalled, thrilled, baffled and fascinated. I remember it as the most realistic movie I've ever seen, and not most of all in the sense of its exquisite mise-en-scene and famed candelit scenes. So in what way realistic? We watch a man -- a very ordinary, rather shoddy man -- live his life. At the end of the movie, he dies. That's all that happens. What makes the movie almost unbearably powerful is that it has no point and no moral; it might be said to have no point of view. Even Barry Lyndon has no apparent point of view about his life. There is no satisfaction at the end. The only meaning to be found in Barry Lyndon's life is what the viewer imposes on it. This ethical vacuum creates intense discomfort and a pressing need to fill it with an interpretation. Therein is the beauty and the satisfaction of it, if any. Some viewers and critics rejected BL as empty and boring; others supplied their own reading of it; for me, and I can't speak for anyone else, the agonizing pleasure of the movie lay in the tension it created between meaning and non-meaning. For the duration of the movie, I experienced both the shock of the void and the drive to fill it with a narrative; holding my mind in that space, yielding to neither the urge to flee nor the urge to moralize, was mesmerizing and transformative.Movie Review: One of the finest films that I have ever seen!
Summary: 5 Stars
I had known about BARRY LYNDON for a while, and it was one of those films that I always wanted to see, yet wanted to wait for the right time to watch it. Well, I just watched it today, and I have to say that I loved it! I would consider it one of Kubrick's best films. However, it seems to be slightly underrated. I have no idea why...the film is perfect in every way, from the direction, the acting, the score, and the lighting (yes, the lighting). It's one of the most beautiful films that you will ever see.
Ryan O'Neill is wonderful as Redmond Barry, an Irishman who falls into high society during his life, which ultimately spirals out of control near the end. This film has the feel of a great novel. At three hours, the pacing is brilliant, and you will find that it flies by in no time at all. The story is so engrossing and the characters so well drawn, that I can't imagine anyone having a hard time sitting through it in it's entirety. Most of the criticisms for this film were mostly related to the pacing. This, I do not understand. A film like this needs to be told in three hours. If you are impatient when it comes to films such as this, which are epic in nature, I would still encourage you to give it a try.
I simply cannot tell you enough: see it! You will not regret it. It is definitely a film that you will never forget.
Movie Review: Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
The film portrays an unusual young Irish man, Redmond Barry, and his endeavours as he is forced to leave his home and tries to make good his life elsewhere. His life away from home starts out as a career in the British Army; only to evolve in surprising ways and lead to as different places as a position of trust within the Prussian Army and later a title of nobility, gained by what our time can only measure as rather disgraceful means. "Barry Lyndon is", amidst Kubricks' many masterpieces, a film so easily dismissed due to length and the fact that it is overshadowed by others, but I deeply recommend this film to anyone who would like to see a film both for the plot line, the story and the pure enjoyment of the images presented. Stanley Kubrick made many great films and this one is most definitely one of them! It's a pity Kubrick stopped making epics after this. Look at the ones he's responsible for: "Spartacus" (not a project Kubrick was fond of, admittedly, but still the most magnificent of all Roman epics) "2001" (the most magnificent of ALL epics), and "Barry Lyndon". The last of the three is by no means a poor cousin.Movie Review: Kubrick's fascinating, audacious masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the picareque tale of Barry Lyndon set in Eighteenth century Europe. Filled with Kubrick trademarks - stunning imagery, superb use of music, meticulous attention to detail - and it all works brilliantly. Indeed this may well be Kubrick's greatest achievement on film. Ryan O'Neal is excellent as the eponymous Irish rogue, although interestingly, Lyndon fades into the background about three-quarters of the way through with the film shifting instead to focus on those around him. Barry Lyndon is exciting, one-of-a-kind film-making - riveting to watch despite it's three hour length.
Contrary to other reviewers concerns this DVD is presented in the original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. The DVD has no extras.