Courtesy of Photofest. Photograph by Keith Hamshere
Screening
Barry Lyndon
Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1975, 184 mins.
Restored 35mm print. With Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee. William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel about an eighteenth-century Irish opportunist’s rise and fall is, in Kubrick’s hands, a painting come to life. Oscar-winning cinematography, art direction, costume design, and music combine with Kubrick’s fine-tuned sense of irony and drama for a one-of-a-kind sensory and intellectual experience. Ever the innovator, Kubrick employed special camera lenses built for NASA to best capture candlelight on screen.
Free with Museum admission.
