The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do? W.M. Thackeray, The Newcomes As befits highly-debated filmmakers' opinions concerning the work of Stanley Kubrick have always been strongly divided. In spite of numerous fans adulating him as one of the most important post-war filmmakers, many a critic looks upon him as merely a pretentious technician. I In particular, Barry Lyndon (1975), Kubrick's adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq., has been h...
