Peter Hoskin and Matthew d’Ancona count down the final 25 of The Spectator’s 50 Essential Films
25.
Barry Lyndon
(Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Cinema sure does work in mysterious ways. Take Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick’s account of an Irish lad (played by Ryan O’Neal) who rises — and then falls — in 18th-century society.
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