Press Release Criterion Press Release: Barry Lyndon (1975) (4k UHD Combo) (Blu-ray) (2 Viewers)

[Ronald Epstein]

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Barry Lyndon​

Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndonchronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O’Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years’ War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of his career, Kubrick recreated the decadent surfaces and intricate social codes of the period, evoking the light and texture of eighteenth-century painting with the help of pioneering cinematographic techniques and lavish costume and production design, all of which earned Academy Awards. The result is a masterpiece—a sardonic, devastating portrait of a vanishing world whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its heart.


FILM INFO

• United States, United Kingdom
• 1975
• 185 minutes
• Color
• 1.66:1
• English
• Spine #897

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES​

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
• Interviews with the cast and crew as well as archival audio featuring director Stanley Kubrick on the film’s cinematography, costumes, editing, and production
• Interview featuring historian Christopher Frayling on production designer Ken Adam
• Interview with critic Michel Ciment
• Interview with actor Leon Vitali about the 5.1 surround soundtrack, which he cosupervised
• Interview with curator Adam Eaker about the fine-art-inspired aesthetics of the film
• Trailers
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and two pieces about the look of the film from the March 1976 issue of American Cinematographer
  
  Cover by F. Ron Miller based on an original theatrical poster by Saul Bass
  
  July 8, 2025

 

[Ronald Epstein]

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[ahollis]

Another purchase.

 

[PaulRossen]

Saul Bass did not design the poster for Barry Lyndon.

 

[SD_Brian]

Saul Bass did not design the poster for Barry Lyndon.

Well! I've learned something today. https://uxdesign.cc/the-barry-lyndo...lassic-not-designed-by-saul-bass-df1f7b59b3f8

 

[Douglas R]

This is one of the few films for which I’ll upgrade my Blu-ray although I would far rather that Warner Bros released it on 4K. I don’t like Criterion’s presentation style.

 

[Konstantinos]

I don’t like Criterion’s presentation style.

What do you mean?

 

[Douglas R]

What do you mean?

I suppose their booklets and disc menus plus their cover designs, although in this case they have used original artwork for a change.

 

[dpippel]

It makes me happy whenever we get a new Kubrick film released in 4K. Sold.

 

[bujaki]

A visual feast, now in 4K!