“Stanley Kubrick’s magisterial Thackeray adaptation now stands as one of his greatest and most savagely ironic films, not to mention one of the few period pieces on celluloid so transporting that it seems to predate the invention of cameras.”
Sunday Matinee Screening in tribute to Murray Melvin (1932 - 2023)
Ryan O'Neil stars as Redmond Barry: an amoral Irish rogue determined to duel, cheat and seduce his way to the top of Georgian society - and damn it if anyone’s going to get in his way… Kubrick's adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1844 novel, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, is a picaresque comic masterpiece - stunningly shot with a truly memorable cast that includes Leonard Rossiter as the cowardly Captain Quin, Patrick Magee as the dissolute Chevalier de Balibari and, perhaps most memorably of all, Murray Melvin as Reverend Samuel Runt - whose unswerving devotion to the unlucky Lady Lyndon (Marisa Berenson) is a joy to behold. All this and a wry, world-weary narration from Michael Hordern!
(Please note: Barry Lyndon is 3 hours long - but! comes with a built-in intermission which, rest assured, we shall definitely be making use of.)
