Barry Lyndon
DVD - 2017
A gentlemanly rogue travels the battlefields and parlors of 18th century Europe, determined to make for himself the life of a nobleman through seduction, gambling, and dueling in this methodical film showing the rhythm and life of the period.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Historical films
Film adaptations
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, New York] :
The Criterion Collection
[2017]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; widescreen
- Item Description
- Adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.
Wide screen (1.66:1).
Special features: New documentary featuring cast and crew interviews as well as excerpts from a 1976 audio interview with director Stanley Kubrick; New program about the film's groundbreaking visuals, featuring focus puller Douglas Milsome and gaffer Lou Bogue, as well as excerpts from a 1980 interview with cinematographer John Alcott; New program about Academy award-winning production designer Ken Adam with historian Sir Christopher Frayling; New interview with editor Anthony Lawson; French television interview from 1976 with Oscar-winning costume designer Ulla-Britt Söderlund; New interview with critic Michel Ciment; New interview with actor Leon Vitali about 5.1 surround soundtrack, which he cosupervised; New piece analyzing the fine-art-inspired aesthetics of the film with art curator Adam Eaker; Plus: an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and two pieces about the film from the March 1976 issue of American Cinematographer. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Format
- DVD, NTSC, region 1.
- Audience
- Rating: PG.
- Awards
- Academy Awards, 1975: Best art direction/set decoration ; cinematography ; costume design ; scoring (adaptation).
- Production Credits
- Music, Leonard Rosenman, The Chieftains ; cinematographer, John Alcott ; editor, Tony Lawson.
- ISBN
- 9781681433714
Contents unavailable.
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