The Village Voice, May 23rd, 2007
Tracking Shots Barry Lyndon Directed by Stanley Kubrick May 27 through 29, WalterReade An object of widespread derision when released in 1975-anyone remember the Mod magazine parody, "Borey Lyndon"?Stanley Kubrick's magisterial Thackeray adaptation now stands as one of his greatest and most savagely ironic films, not to mention one of the few period pieces on celluloid so transporting that it seems to predate the invention of cameras. At first Ryan O'Neal, then Hollywood's reigning male ingénue, seems too contemporary a presence for Barry, the 18th-century Irish scoundrel who marries into...
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