STANLEY KUBRICK'S EXQUISITE MASTERPIECE: "BARRY LYNDON"

The elegant screenplay for Kubrick's 1975 masterpiece was ingeniously adapted by Kubrick himself from the 1844 novel by William Thackeray. Winner of four Oscars, the film stars Ryan O'Neal as Redmond Barry and Marisa Berenson as the wealthy Countess of Lyndon, whom he marries to elevate his station in life after a series of misadventures which include:  soldiering in both the British and the Prussian armies; working as a spy for the Prussian Ministry of Police; and, operating as a professional gambler and duelist in the great cities of Europe. About Barry, Roger Ebert said: "He is a man to whom things happen." That is an understatement. Within the course of the film, we see Barry in at least three duels, the last of which constitutes one of the most compelling sequences in Kubrick's career. Filmed in Ireland, England, and Germany by master cinematographer John Alcott, who won an Oscar for it, many of the scenes—designed by Ken Adam, who also won an Oscar—were based on actual paintings