Barry Lyndon

“This is one of the best discs I think Criterion ever put out, the Barry Lyndon one. It's like a film school. My favorite part is Douglas Milsome talking about the grid he had to put because he was assistant cameraman on that to keep focus in those scenes that were lit only by candles. Love this film.”

“I mean, Barry Lyndon. This movie, I realized recently how much of an impact it’s had on my filmmaking, on my feelings about Ryan O’Neal. It’s so good. The score, the way he… I mean, it’s Kubrick, so I don’t have to say much, but I love this and it made me read the book, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which is phenomenal and it actually really made me love this even more, because it’s an amazing work of adaptation. You have to watch it. You have to watch it.”

“I'll just make sure I get Barry Lyndon because my two kids, they are getting to the age I think I can show them Barry Lyndon and they will, I'm sure, feel something because this is such an amazing film. I love the way it takes its time and the way the music comes in and the way you're completely floored by the images in the film. I know maybe so many people have reacted to this film the way I have, but that probably explains why it's a classic.”

“Talk about how to light a movie and the different ways to do it: Barry Lyndon. Stanley Kubrick directs with patience. He is forcing you as the viewer to lean into the screen. It's not thrown in your face and sometimes there's long pauses between lines of dialogue. I was late to seeing Barry Lyndon and I actually saw this last year for the first time and it was the only Kubrick film I hadn't seen.”

“Barry freakin’ Lyndon. Now, I remember when I was growing up my mom talking about Barry Lyndon. We were a big Kubrick House. Barry Lyndon has rightly had a critical reevaluation in the last decades. For a modern audience that really has a modern sense of irony, this movie has aged so well. I feel like watch Succession and then watch Barry Lyndon, because they’re both pieces about, again, an oppressive system, in this case, the aristocracy and the super rich, and the rot in those systems.”

“And I have to pick Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon. I would pick, you know, all of the Stanley Kubrick films, but yeah, this is one of my favorites, so I'll take this one.”

“Barry Lyndon,, if you can stay awake through this entire movie, you have a sleep disorder.”

“Barry Lyndon, un film che vidi in Italia doppiato, vorrei veramente rivederlo nella versione originale.”

“Here's another one: Barry Lyndon. Milena Canonero, another genius, designed it, and I use it often for inspiration.”

“Stanley Kubrick is someone who, you know, is just a master at how he uses the frame and the symmetry of everything. So this is perfect: Barry Lyndon. This is, I think, all candlelight, I think. I think they had special lenses made for this. And so I’ll bet this particular version tells me all I need to know.”