Barry Lyndon (The Criterion Collection) [4K UHD]

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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 Lyndon chronicles 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.4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURESNew 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackAlternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master AudioOne 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special featuresInterviews with the cast and crew as well as archival audio featuring director Stanley Kubrick on the film’s cinematography, costumes, editing, and productionInterview featuring historian Christopher Frayling on production designer Ken AdamInterview with critic Michel CimentInterview with actor Leon Vitali about the 5.1 surround soundtrack, which he cosupervisedInterview with curator Adam Eaker about the fine-art-inspired aesthetics of the filmTrailersEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingPLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and two pieces about the look of the film from the March 1976 issue of American Cinematographer