Barry Lyndon
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Barry Lyndon is a 1975 epic historical drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. Narrated by Michael Hordern, and starring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Leonard Rossiter and Hardy Krüger, the film recounts the early exploits and later unravelling of an 18th-century Anglo-Irish rogue and golddigger who marries a rich widow to climb the social ladder and assume her late husband's aristocratic position.
Theatrical release poster by Jouineau Bourduge
Special ultra-fast lenses were used for Barry Lyndon to allow filming using only natural light.
Marriage à-la-mode, Shortly After the Marriage (scene two of six).
Hogarth's Country Dance (c.1745) illustrates the type of interior scene that Kubrick sought to emulate with Barry Lyndon.
Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick was an American filmmaker and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his films were nearly all adaptations of novels or short stories, spanning a number of genres and gaining recognition for their intense attention to detail, innovative cinematography, extensive set design, and dark humor.
Kubrick c. 1973–74
High school senior portrait of Kubrick, age 16, c. 1944–1945
Portrait of Kubrick with a camera at the Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, 1949, while a staff photographer for Look
Photo of a Chicago streetscape taken by Kubrick for Look magazine, 1949, from State/Lake station