Barry Lyndon (4K Restoration)
May 19, 2026
Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema. Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O’Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years’ War and the parlors of high society. 4K restoration!
SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this screening.
For the most sumptuously crafted film of his career, Kubrick recreated the decadent surfaces and intricate social codes of the period, evoking the light and texture of eighteenth-century painting with the help of pioneering cinematographic techniques and lavish costume and production design, all of which earned Academy Awards. The result is a masterpiece—a sardonic, devastating portrait of a vanishing world whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its heart; a wonder to behold on the big screen.
PLEASE NOTE: The film will be presented with a 10 minute intermission (total runtime with intermission is approximately 195 mins).
Presented in the film’s photographed aspect ratio of 1.66:1, as specified in a December 8, 1975, letter from director Stanley Kubrick to projectionists. This new 4K restoration was sourced from a 4K scan of the 35mm original camera negative. The high-definition transfer, created in 2000 under the supervision of Leon Vitali (Kubrick’s personal assistant), served as a color reference for this restoration. The 5.1 surround audio mix was created from restored original soundtrack stems.
“This must be one of the most beautiful films ever made… It is certainly in every frame a Kubrick film: technically awesome, emotionally distant, remorseless in its doubt of human goodness.”— Roger Ebert
“As leisurely as it is painterly, this is a masterclass in cinematography – famously, Kubrick used nothing but natural light in all but a few scenes. Don’t miss the chance to watch it in a cinema.” — Wendy Ide, The Observer
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Principal Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1975
- Running Time: 185 min.
- Language: English