Oooh, Barry Lyndon. A classic period drama, and criminally underwatched.

The technical purist in me loves it because Kubrick had a new type of lens developed just so he could shoot the nighttime scenes by candlelight....without any studio light rigs!

OMFG - Clicky!
I never knew that. Cheers.

Who cares about Kubrick? Where's Uwe Boll in this list?

It surprises me that you, of all people, never knew that.
The film is quite famous for that reason alone.
I'm with you F_A_F, it's criminally underwatched.

Mark

It's really hard to find a decent picture of the nighttime scenes in the film to show the impact they have. Most of the images I just googled have crappy granularity on them from the transfer to jpeg. The best I could find is this:



A huge part of any period drama is intimacy, and kubrick's lighting on this film greatly enhances this intimacy by using only candlelight. I hope that it comes out on Blu Ray one day as it will be a real treat!

Today we have numbers 60-41 :

60. Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
59. Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970, Vittorio de Sica)
58. The Fallen Idol (1948, Carol Reed)
57. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978, Fred Schepisi)
56. His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
55. LA Confidential (1997, Curtis Hanson)
54. There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
53. Sullivan's Travels (1942, Preston Sturges)
52. Ball of Fire (1941, Howard Hawks)
51. Overlord (1975, Stuart Cooper)
50. Meet Me In St Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
49. Sunset Blvd (1950, Billy Wilder)
48. The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
47. Gone With The Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
46. Touch Of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
45. L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
44. Nashville (1975, Robert Altman)
43. It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra)
42. Oliver! (1968, Carol Reed)
41. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorcese)

Mark

Again only one for me

At least this time I have heard of a few more of them.

Hmm slightly more... dare I say there are a few cliche choices in there though.

Few more on this one for me too. I guess as we go higher up we'll recognise more!

Oh dear...only 5 now. I keep meaning to see Gone with the wind but like Citizen Kane I just haven't got around to it.

From the first page, I've heard of but not seen:


Possibly seen (although I don't remember much of it):


And seen:


From the latest set, I've heard of but not seen:


And I've seen:


Obviously my film tastes are very "alternative" to those of Mr Quinn

How appropriate!

Well, my Mister and I were running through the list Monday night and I mentioned that I wasn't sure I'd seen it, I remember a scene of Ewan McGregor and another bloke running hell-bent-for-leather through some street somewhere, but that's it, and I could easily have seen that bit during a preview. My Mister asked me if I remembered "the toilet bit" which I don't, and he seems to think that means I haven't seen it, since he's sure I'd remeber that bit.

Nine from today's bunch.

Mark

LA Confidential and the highly over-rated Taxi Driver (IMO) are the only two I've watched the whole way through there... If a film doesn't look like it's going anywhere within half an hour now I give up - life's too short.

I used to think about films along the 'Alien principle' - slow character build-up leading to potential greatness, but that's just not likely any more