In Barry Lyndon—one of the most visually stunning works in Stanley Kubrick's filmography—its titular opportunist faces off against his vindictive stepson, Lord Bullingdon, in a duel that can only be ...

Stanley Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon” (1975) is a meditation — an elegy told in slow, flickering motion, drifting across the screen like smoke from a musket fired long ago. For a director known for cold ...

Of all of the shimmering cinematic jewels that Stanley Kubrick gifted to us over the latter half of the twentieth-century, it is perhaps his 1975 period piece “Barry Lyndon” that has received the ...

Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, which marks its 50th anniversary this year, struggled at the box office when it was released. It remains one of the director’s most under-appreciated films. Unlike 2001 ...