SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
“‘Barry Lyndon’ could be considered Kubrick’s masterpiece. At the very least, this cerebral action film represents the height of his craft.”
185 minutes. Rated PG. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. In English. DCP.
Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O’Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years’ War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of his career, Kubrick recreated the decadent surfaces and intricate social codes of the period, evoking the light and texture of eighteenth-century painting with the help of pioneering cinematographic techniques and lavish costume and production design, all of which earned Academy Awards. The result is a masterpiece—a sardonic, devastating portrait of a vanishing world whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its heart.
ADDITIONAL SCREENINGS in this series:
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles: Saturday, June 14 at 2:30 p.m.
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles: Sunday, June 15 at 12 p.m.
The Passenger: Saturday, June 28 at 3 p.m.
The Passenger: Sunday, June 29 at 12 p.m.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Saturday, July 12 at 3 p.m.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Sunday, July 13 at 3 p.m.
Grey Gardens: Saturday, August 9 at 3 p.m.
Grey Gardens: Sunday, August 10 at 12 p.m.
Dog Day Afternoon: Friday, August 22 at 6:30 p.m.
Jaws: Coming to Congress Square Park for a free September screening!