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 ...