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01-30-2002, 09:52 PM
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Barry Lyndon was one of the few Stanley Kubrick movies I had never seen, so I finally screened it over the weekend.
This has to be one of the most gorgeous movies I have ever seen! By gorgeous, I mean the cinematography is breath taking. Almost every shot is grand and dazzling.
Although it is three hours, the film is one that I sat back and enjoyed like a good book.
Is anyone else a fan of this film?
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01-30-2002, 10:35 PM
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One of Kubrick's best. It's a film that continues to amaze, even on multiple viewings.
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01-30-2002, 11:27 PM
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I love this movie. It has this odd quality of being cute and creepy. It's like a parody of itself. Very enjoyable.
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01-31-2002, 02:19 AM
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My favourite among all of the Kubricks. Favourite scene - when the elder Lyndon son walks his step-brother into the music hall and the ensuing chaos. Another favourite is when they are in the study room.
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01-31-2002, 05:05 AM
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There was a rumor at the time of the film's release that the interiors were lighted with thousands of candles to give them an authentic look. Only Kubrick could get away with doing such a thing.
\"When you want to shoot, don\'t talk.\"
Tuco-The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
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01-31-2002, 08:06 AM
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To me, Barry Lyndon is a great satire of the "noble" people.
I think the epilogue explains it all.
Andreas Ingo
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01-31-2002, 08:08 AM
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I really enjoyed our own Bill McAlpine's review:
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01-31-2002, 08:32 AM
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A film that can be rewatched endlessly.  |
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01-31-2002, 08:35 AM
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There was a rumor at the time of the film's release that the interiors were lighted with thousands of candles to give them an authentic look.
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Billy Wilder had a quote about those candles. But it might offend some here, so I'll put that part in spoilers. Read at your own risk.
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Kubrick, he was a wonderful director
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"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
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01-31-2002, 08:42 AM
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Perhaps Billy was having a bad day... Carl Dryer in Day or Wrath, made them find a rowboat out of oak instead of what type of wood it was made of, even though it is indiscenable to the viewer...
Tarkovsky, for The Mirror, try to plant buckwheat as that is what he remembered as a child... even though all the farmers of the area told him it wouldn't grow... he did, it grew and he filmed it...
I think this may seperate the fine line between "cinema art" from "movies with Tony Curtis in a dress"...
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01-31-2002, 10:20 AM
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Perhaps Billy was having a bad day
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Perhaps he was.
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even though it is indiscenable to the viewer...this may seperate the fine line between "cinema art" from "movies with Tony Curtis in a dress"...
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Perhaps you're having a bad day.  I think this kind of proves the point Billy was making. If I showed you two prints of Day or Wrath, one which had an oak rowboat, one which had a rowboat of another wood, and you could not tell the two prints apart, how would you know which was 'cinema art' and which was not?
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk
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01-31-2002, 10:28 AM
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Your statement proves my point george...
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