Overview

• Arte is airing Barry Lyndon on June 8 at 9 p.m., prompting renewed discussion of its cinematic achievements.
• Stanley Kubrick repurposed two Carl Zeiss lenses from NASA’s Apollo 11 mission to capture authentic candlelit interiors.
• Filmed over eight and a half months in England, Germany and Ireland, the project followed the cancellation of Kubrick’s planned Napoleon epic.
• The three-hour adaptation of Thackeray’s 1844 novel follows real-life adventurer Andrew Robinson Stoney during the Seven Years’ War under George III.
• After earning just $9.5 million in its initial U.S. run, Barry Lyndon won four Oscars and is now considered one of Kubrick’s greatest works.