Barry Lyndon |  | Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Original recording remastered, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 184 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD120017D
UPC: 085391200178
EAN: 0085391200178
Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 1975
Release Date: October 23, 2007
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How does an irish lad without prospects become part of 18th century english nobility? any deceitful diabolical way he can. An awesomely beautiful hauntingly romantic adaptation of the classic book with a texture and feel unlike any other historical movie ever made. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/23/2007 Starring: Ryan Oneal Rating: Pg
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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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 1975 KUBRICK FILM September 21, 2009
Dr. Feelgood (USA)
One interesting aspect of this film, is the way in which the story, of Redmond Barry, is told, through narration, and film visualiztion, as presented by Kubrick. The character, Barry, not a likable person, and one of Ryan O'Neal's best performances, does manage to gain the audience's sympathy, despite his obvious flaws.
The most realistic movie I have ever seen September 6, 2009
Leah Ray (Rome-on-the-Potomac)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
A little watched masterpiece June 8, 2009
The Wizard (UT.)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Stanley Kubrick, was perhaps, our greatest film maker. And 'Barry Lyndon', was one of his greatest efforts. Not too well received, by critics or fans, it is perhaps my favorite Kubrick film. Meticulous, slow-moving, every frame could be freeze-framed and mounted on the wall. It is one of the most gorgeous looking films in the history of cinema. Take a break from the fast paced shoot-um-ups, and settle down with this film. It will take your breath away.
Beautiful June 7, 2009
William R. Warren Jr. (Ellensburg, WA USA)
A technological tour de force, no less than every film to come before from Stanley Kubrick. But this one has a sense of "no urgency" (as opposed to "no sense of urgency") and it's easy to see Kubrick looking back for a moment and breathing a sigh of relief ..."Well, I got THAT out of the way!" ... and realizing he was at the summit and he was the only one there, took some self-indulgent time to make love to his cameras again, coaxing them to do things they had never been intended for.
This was good time for Stanley, and he shows it.
Beautiful May 3, 2009
Robert Buchanan (Wisconsin)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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!
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