Barry Lyndon

“One exquisitely beautiful image after another.” Martin Scorsese

Although Stanley Kubrick crafted many masterpieces – from 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Shining and Full Metal Jacket – this stunning adaptation of Thackeray’s novel deserves its place alongside them. Barry (Ryan O’Neal) is an Irish rogue, seeking to insert himself into high society. But soon the sharp blade he has used to gain his place begins to bend back on our protagonist.

Winner of four Oscars and comfortably in Sight & Sound’s top fifty films of all time among directors and critics, Barry Lyndon is a stately but also scabrous projection of the mid-1970s into Hogarth’s Britain. The ambition of a genius with the resources to match, this dazzlingly made classic is one of cinema’s genuinely essential big screen experiences.