Kubrick’s Long Game

Barry Lyndon fifty years on

Kubrick fans are notably obsessive, which figures: Kubrick himself was a famous obsessive, he of the multiple takes and high technical demands — including the Zeiss lenses to get the low candlelight scenes in Barry Lyndon, which were legendary even before the film came out in. There was a bit of a gasp at them when I saw the movie in 1975 with my friend…