We all know about The Shining or the one retarded film that Stanley Kubrick made called Space Odyssey 2001–thanks to horror fan buffs and acid addled hippie bastards. However, how many of you have seen Barry Lyndon?
After watching this movie, I became transfixed with Kubrick’s work. It is by far the most innovating, crisp, and creative of his era.
This film in particular, Barry Lyndon, is a personal favorite. Every single scene is a work of art, literally. You can screen shot any part of the film and it will look like a classic oil painting.
As for the content: dark, dry, comedy, mixed with sarcasm– my favorite type of funny. Mrs. Fly watched some, at my request, and didn’t find it funny, not even in the least. Then again, she can sit through an entire Eastbound and Down episode, complain about all the profanity being used, and not crack a smile once, not even a little.
This is a classic film, one of the best ever. Watch it!
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2 hours into this film it started to become dissappointing .. still good
Not for me. Loved every minute
Caught this, on TCM last month,you hit the nail on the head with this one.4 stars!
I loved the cinematography and the first half but when the snobbish antagonism personified in the stepson came to the fore it really slowed down.
Look forward to Kubrick Part II. Have to admit never got into him. No Clockwork Orange reference here I assume that’s next. (Ill have my Tarantino hat on) Never saw BL thanks for the introduction
Tonight at george eastman’s movie theater
Spartacus
April 4, 2015, @ 8:00 pm
(Stanley Kubrick, US 1960, 166 min., 35mm)
http://dryden.eastmanhouse.org/films/2015/01/spartacus-2/
Kubrick’s 3nd best after Paths of Glory and A Clockwork Orange. Or maybe Dr. Strangelove.
Have you ever noticed that Kubrick looks like Salman Rushdie?
Still a favorite of mine. Great story about how Kubrick snookered a studio head, maybe David Begelman, into giving him the old, seldom used cameras he needed to shoot in natural light and candlelight.
Also, the quisling who shoots Lyndon in the duel became Kubrick’s assistant and something of an archivist for him later.
Check out the documentary — some say hagiography, but fuck them — Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures.
Mrs. Fly is definitely one of your few redemptive graces.
I remember my parents taking me and the sis along as little tykes to see 2001 at a local drive in. The monkees haunted my dreams that night. I was the too young to appreciate it. Now the older i get the more im beginning to really like the film. Amazing how the special effects still stand up and HAL fading out singing daisy is classic.
Heresy – 2001 is a masterpiece.
Glad to know Eastbound and Down gets viewing time at the Fly house.
Great film. I finally watched it last year per your occasional references to it. I thoroughly enjoyed Lydon’s story, especially the atypical peaks & troughs.