Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon is often included in a bucket list of films to see on the big screen, for many reasons. An obvious one is the sumptuous visuals that are created through meticulous production design and innovative cinematography, using lighting that evokes the 18th-century period setting. Another is the laconic pace and subtly sardonic tone, which rewards the close attention that's enabled by a theatrical screening with a complex story of ambition and social class mobility. It is a film that tells a timely tale of striving and inequality, perhaps more relevant now than even when it was made. It provides a rich, fulfilling, 3-hour cinematic experience that transports the viewer to another time and place, carefully created for the pleasure of a cinema audience.

Written by Donna Brunsdale.