Barry Lyndon
By: produced, written for the screen, and directed by Stanley Kubrick
Contributors: O'Neal, Ryan, actor; Berenson, Marisa, 1942- actor; Magee, Patrick, actor; Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
Series: The Criterion collection -- 897; Criterion collection -- 897.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Drama; Social classes; Man-woman relationships; Film adaptations; History
Other titles: Barry Lyndon (Motion picture)
Description: Follows the adventures of an eighteenth-century Irish rogue whose opportunism takes him from the farm to the battlefield and ultimately into high society as the husband of a widowed aristocrat.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.

Based on the novel "The luck of Barry Lyndon" by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Dolby digital 5.1, wide screen 1.66:1.

Essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and two pieces about the film from the March 1976 issue of American Cinematographer in container.

Features: new documentary featuring cast and crew interviews as well as excerpts from a 1976 audio interview with director Stanley Kubrick; new program about the film's groundbreaking visuals, featuring focus puller Douglas Milsome and gaffer Lou Bogue, as well as excerpts from a 1980 interview with cinematographer John Alcott; new program about Academy Awardwinning production designer Ken Adam with historian Sir Christopher Frayling; new interview with editor Anthony Lawson; French television interview from 1976 with Oscar-winning costume designer Ulla-Britt Söderlund; new interview with critic Michel Ciment; new interview with actor Leon Vitali about the 5.1 surround soundtrack, which he co-supervised; new piece analyzing the fine-art-inspired aesthetics of the film with art curator Adam Eaker.

Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger, Steven Berkoff.

MPAA rating: PG.

For private home use only.

In English with optional English subtitles.