Barry Lyndon (Bluray)

I recently saw Tony Zierra's documentary on Stanley Kubrick's assistant, Leon Vitali, Filmworker (2017). Vitali has a starring role in Kubrik's epic Barry Lyndon (1975) that was recently rel-released as a Bluray (also 2017). So seeing the documentary sent me back to see the restored version of the film. It has been over a decade since I saw it last. It still amazes-it is like a live action tapestry being unrolled. It was this film that made Vitali an acolyte of Kubrick and after that experience he worked mostly behind the screen on Kubrick's subsequent films. This really is a remarkable masterpiece of modern film making. The Criterion treatment includes: new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack, alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, new documentary featuring cast and crew interviews as well as excerpts from a 1976 audio interview with director Stanley Kubrick, new program about the film's groundbreaking visuals, featuring focus puller Douglas Milsome and gaffer Lou Bogue, as well as excerpts from a 1980 interview with cinematographer John Alcott, new program about Academy Award winning production designer Ken Adam with historian Sir Christopher Frayling, new interview with editor Anthony Lawson, French television interview from 1976 with Oscar-winning costume designer Ulla-Britt Soderlund, new interview with critic Michel Ciment, new interview with actor Leon Vitali about the 5.1 surround soundtrack, which he cosupervised, new piece analyzing the fine-art-inspired aesthetics of the film with art curator Adam Eaker, and an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and two pieces about the film from the March 1976 issue of American Cinematographer.