BARRY LYNDON Criterion Collection - October

[AndyDursin]

Heads-up Paul!

BARRY LYNDON
Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of brutal 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.
1975 * 184 minutes * Color * Monaural * 1.66:1 aspect ratio

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
* New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
* Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
* 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 the 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

2-BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 9/19/17
STREET 10/17/17
CAT. NO. CC2820BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-370-7
UPC 7-15515-20541-2

2-DVD EDITION
SRP $29.95
PREBOOK 9/19/17
STREET 10/17/17
CAT. NO. CC2821DDVD
ISBN 978-1-68143-371-4
UPC 7-15515-20551-1

[Paul MacLean]

Thanks for the heads-up Andy!

I was going to show Barry Lyndon to my niece (who loves 18th century history) sometime this summer...but I guess I will wait until September now!

[John Johnson]

I'm sure Paul will appreciate this.



Park Circus has provided a promotional trailer for the new 4K restoration of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975), which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Later this month, Criterion will release the 4K restoration on 4K Blu-ray.

The new 4K restoration, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, will begin screening in the UK and internationally on July 18th.

Barry Lyndon 4K Blu-ray

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.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 4K RESTORATION, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
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

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=36710

[Paul MacLean]

I'm sure Paul will appreciate this.

Yes! Thank-you John!