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September 29, 2005
Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon (1975), Stanley Kubrick:
This is the last of the major Kubricks I had yet to see. I was never a Kubrick fanboy and am still convinced anyone who thinks 2001 was anything but an artistic exercise either knows they're lying or should know. The last two I saw, though, The Killing and this, were excellent.
Victorian dramas I don't love much either but it's impossible not to get drawn into Barry Lyndon. The photography looks stolen from an art museum, and the settings are look astounding, even out-timemachining Russian Ark for visual and historical splendor. Also, Ryan O'Neal in leggings, who knew?
13/15
Posted by bing at September 29, 2005 10:39 PM