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Barry Lyndon

December 2023

  • Ryan O'Neal and Ali Macgraw in Arthur Hiller’s film Love Story, 1970.

    Ryan O’Neal obituary

  • Ryan O'Neal at a rehearsal for 43rd Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

    Ryan O’Neal, Hollywood actor and star of Love Story, dies aged 82

August 2022

  • Leon Vitali poses at a photocall for The Shining on Thursday 16 May 2019 at the 72nd Festival de Cannes, Palais des Festivals, Cannes. Pictured: Leon Vitali. Picture by Julie Edwards/LFI/Avalon. All usages must be credited Julie Edwards/LFI/Avalon., Credit:Julie Edwards/Avalon.Red / Avalon

    Leon Vitali obituary

    British actor who went on to work for the film director Stanley Kubrick as an assistant, casting adviser and ‘sort of gatekeeper’

May 2020

  • Salvatore Cascio in Cinema Paradiso (1988)

    'I barely breathed': Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their most memorable moments at the movies

    From transformative nights in the grubbiest of fleapits to spellbinding screenings under the stars, film-makers and critics recall the communal thrill of going to the cinema

April 2019

  • A scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

    Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition review – catnip for mid-century modern fans

    An exhibition of the enigmatic film-maker’s paraphernalia is rich in detail but low on magic

May 2018

  • Leon Vitali and Stanley Kubrick, from Filmworker, 2017

    Filmworker review – tales from the life of Stanley Kubrick’s right-hand man

    A revealing documentary about Leon Vitali, actor-turned-devoted-assistant to the demanding film-maker

April 2018

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Film 'PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK' (1975)
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    My favourite film decade
    From Don't Look Now to The Godfather – why the 1970s is my favourite film decade

    While Jaws and Star Wars spawned the blockbuster, groundbreaking film-makers pushed cinema to the limits with edgy drama and sparkling comedy

May 2017

  • Leon Vitali

    Filmworker review - Stanley Kubrick's right-hand man gets his moment in the limelight

    A tender documentary profiles Leon Vitali, who gave up a promising acting career to become the celebrated auteur’s most valued assistant

July 2016

  • Barry Lyndon review – re-release of Kubrick’s masterly period piece

  • Barry Lyndon Ryan O’Neal

    Barry Lyndon: Kubrick's vision of a compromised life

  • Slow, mysterious shift from comedy to tragedy … Ryan O’Neal and Marisa Berenson in Barry Lyndon.

    Barry Lyndon review – Kubrick's intimate epic of utter lucidity

  • Barry Lyndon.

    Barry Lyndon: why it’s time to reassess Kubrick’s ‘coffee-table’ movie

  • Observer New Review Q&A
    Marisa Berenson: ‘Being directed by Branagh is an amazing adventure’

  • Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon: ‘It puts a spell on people’

March 2016

  • James Bond: You Only Live Twice, 1967

    James Bond production designer Ken Adam – a career in pictures

    Ken Adam, who died on Thursday, built some of the most elaborate and impressive film sets ever seen, including Dr Strangelove’s war room and the villain’s lair for You Only Live Twice. Here are a selection of his greatest hits

December 2015

  • Stanley Kubrick with the cast and crew during shooting, 1975.

    Stanley Kubrick: the Barry Lyndon archives – in pictures

    It is 40 years since the great director released Barry Lyndon, his period masterpiece. His longtime executive producer Jan Harlan talks us through photos and artefacts from the Kubrick archive
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