"New trailer for re-release of 'Barry Lyndon'" Topic

In advance of the July 2016 re-release of the film in the UK, a new trailer has been crafted for the film: link

My particular interest is that the miniature army of my ‘imagi-nation', the Barryat of Lyndonia, is made up of the various units that appear in the movie, including Gale's Regiment of Foot, the Régiment de Royal-Cravates, and the ‘Kubrick' Infanterie Regiment.

Very nice

Excellent film – glad to see it's being re-released

Terrific movie. Great figures.

Agree !

Phil

Good in parts, I dislike the second half though!

One of my favorites; excellent work on the figures.

I look Stanley Kubrick and I'm Irish but the second half of the movie makes me low which is probably yhe intent. Beautiful minis btw

I forced myself to watch the entire thing once; I don't think I'll do it again.

Great figures.

very good news indeed.

Barry should have shot Lord Bullingdon, instead of firing into the air. Ugly twerp.

I think of Doctor Strangelove as Kubrick's masterpiece. I like much about Barry Lyndon but feel Stanley should have cast more charismatic stars than O'Neal and Berenson. I hear he cast them in large part because they wouldn't contest his wishes.

Very nice figures.

It's always wonderful to see extremely nicely painted minden.

The movie is meh. Great scenemetagrophy and landscape but too slow.

I think the "slow" pacing is deliberate, part of Kubrick's design to immerse you in a different and slower-paced era. That's why so many establishing shots of landscapes or characters look like period paintings.

O'Neal and Berenson. I hear he cast them in large part because they wouldn't contest his wishes.

O'Neal was very hot at the time, I think they figured he was box office gold. He was even considered (believe it or not) for the role of Michael Corleone in "The Godfather". The studio wanted to move the setting from the forties to the 1970s and from New York to Cleveland. Francis Ford Coppolla and Mario Puzo put up a fight and Puzo evidently had some contractual say over what they could do to the story (this is according to TCM). Marisa Berenson was also a hot commodity at the time.

I've never seen the film. I remember seeing the trailers in the theaters but when it came out the critics and a couple of my friends just barbecued it. I tried to watch it on HBO but frankly found it pretty boring, especially for a Kubrick movie, and couldn't make it all the way through.

Terrific Minis BTW!

Barry Lyndon is seen by many as a "boring" movie that is both too long and hard to sit through The same comments are also made to novels of the same historical era.

Kubrick's movie is a perfect portrayal of a period novel brought to the screen It is slow because of the style to craft a story rather than tell it as quickly as possible It was originally titled " The Luck of Barry Lyndon: A Romance of the Last Century and was first published as a serial type story in Frazer's Magazine starting in 1844 It was compiled as a 2 volume novel in 1852 and the current versin in 1856

"Barry Lyndon" is full of beautiful scenery , rich imagery wonderful music and is historically accurate The acting appears slow because it was meant to be so Lives slowly changing as events occur ending in a way that would have been difficult to foretell when the movie began

Well, I've got my ticket to see it on the big screen and I'm really looking forward to seeing it. Thanks for the heads-up Arteis

I think the "slow" pacing is deliberate, part of Kubrick's design to immerse you in a different and slower-paced era. That's why so many establishing shots of landscapes or characters look like period paintings.

I don't mind slow pace. By slow I mean very little happens. It's simply not a very. Interesting movie. Nice visuals. Story meh.

Read the novel. It's not so much slow as irony verging on the cynical.

Ah, but the music is delightful for those who enjoy Baroque.

Terry

…And those who enjoy the Dubliners.

Lt. Col. pedant, I believe the Irish music was by the Chieftains, not the Dunlinets

I too thought it slow and couldn't get past the first half when I first attempted to view it as a teenager, but in recent years I've watched the whole thing a couple of times* and greatly enjoyed its wonderfully immersive, meditative evocation of the period and place, and the mores of the landed aristocracy who inhabited them.

*Most recently I went to the home of a female friend and history buff specifically for a group viewing of this film.

I'm okay with slow pacing, I enjoyed the recent miniseries version of "War and Peace" as well as the mammoth Soviet version. Heck, I even enjoyed "Moby Dick" (the book as well as the movie). For me it wasn't the pacing rather the story just never intrigued me nor did the characters. For those who enjoyed it, great, it's why they have chocolate and vanilla ice cream.

As I recall it was a shocking movie. Mad Magazine did a send up in one of its editions which was better than the movie was. Lots of nice uniforms etc but spoilt with a lousy plot line.

Barry Lyndon was the first movie I ever walked out on.

If only Kubrick would have made the movie on Napoleon that he spent much of his life researching. The Travelling Kubrick exhibition has all of his notes and research materials including very detailed timelines of Napoleon's life and hundreds of books on the period.. Also has thousands of pictures of period artifacts that would have been used for building sets and props.

Barry Lyndon is the only movie I've purposely gone back and watched several times. I loved it!

Of course, the classic scene for wargamers is 'Barry's first taste of battle', in my view probably the best portrayal of 18th century warfare anywhere:

YouTube link

Winston: you're correct. The Irish music is far too accomplished for the Dunlinets.

This scene from the movie always sends shivers up my back:

YouTube link

Or this scene for those who prefer the Prussians:

YouTube link

"Dunlinets"…..
Gotta love autocorrect.

As for the scenes that Arteis02 shows, they are easily found on YouTube for those with short attention spans.
Roger Ebert wrote that he thought that those who found BL boring were not very bright. I wouldn't go that far. I realize it's not exactly Guardians of the Galaxy, but I loved it.

I think it is a splendid film. I have no idea what ended up on the cutting room floor in terms of the story arc.

The plot in the novel is harder hitting as the backdrop to the family is the Penal Laws and religious conversion for monetary gain.

Oh, and lovely figures too.

And Mad Magazine did a good parody of it back then,"Borey Lyndon".

Reading the comments I remain disappointed. The movie is for me an absolute masterpiece, beautiful actors, fabulous photography, scenes from the most beautiful eighteenth century paintings, beautiful music and a spectacular irony measured gracefully. Since then I have seen beautiful films but not equivalent.

Worth watching, if only to hear the "Pariser Einzugmarsch" several times. Period-wise out of kilter (was played on entry in 1814), but great march.

Great opening to a story, "Since the days of Adam, there has hardly been a mischief done in this world that a woman has been at the bottom of it." Barry is a true misogynist and rogue.