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Barry Lyndon [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, 2017.

Social classes -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 897.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

2-DVD special ed.

2 videodiscs (ca. 184 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital Surround sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.

Special edition features: New 4K digital restoration ; alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack ; new documentary featuring cast and crew interviews as well as audio excerpts from a 1976 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 featuring historian Christopher Frayling on Academy Award-winning production designer Ken Adam ; new interview with editor Anthony Lawson; French television interview from 1976 with Ulla-Britt Söderlund, who codesigned the film's Oscar-winning costumes ; new interview with critic Michel Ciment ; new interview with actor Leon Vitali about the 5.1 surround soundtrack, which he cosupervised ; new piece analyzing the fine-art-inspired aesthetics of the film with art curator Adam Eaker ; trailers ; plus an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and two pieces about the film from the March 1976 issue of American Cinematographer.

At head of title: Stanley Kubrick's.

In English with optional English (SDH) subtitles.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Music adapted and conducted by Leonard Rosenman ; written for the screen, produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson with Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Diana Koerner and Leon Vitali.

"Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O’Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years’ War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of his career, Kubrick recreated the decadent surfaces and intricate social codes of the period, evoking the light and texture of eighteenth-century painting with the help of pioneering cinematographic techniques and lavish costume and production design, all of which earned Academy Awards. The result is a masterpiece -- a sardonic, devastating portrait of a vanishing world whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its heart."--Container.

Winner of 4 Academy Awards: Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Cinematography, Costume Design and Scoring (Adaptation).

National Board of Review: Best Picture, Director, 1975.

British Academy Awards (BAFTA): Best Director, Cinematography, 1975.

Los Angeles and National Society of Film Critics, Best Cinematography.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. Barry Lyndon.

Kubrick, Stanley.

Berenson, Marisa, 1942-

Magee, Patrick.

Krüger, Hardy, 1928-

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