Park Circus: First Look at New 50th Anniversary 4K Restoration of Barry Lyndon
HomePark Circus: First Look at New 50th Anniversary 4K Restoration of Barry Lyndon
Posted July 2, 2025 09:35 PM by Webmaster
Park Circus has provided a promotional trailer for the new 4K restoration of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975), which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Later this month, Criterion will release the 4K restoration on 4K Blu-ray.
The new 4K restoration, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, will begin screening in the UK and internationally on July 18th.
Barry Lyndon 4K Blu-ray
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. 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.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The new 4K restoration, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, will begin screening in the UK and internationally on July 18th.
Barry Lyndon 4K Blu-ray
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. 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.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- Interviews with the cast and crew as well as archival audio featuring director Stanley Kubrick on the film's cinematography, costumes, editing, and production
- Interview featuring historian Christopher Frayling on production designer Ken Adam
- Interview with critic Michel Ciment
- Interview with actor Leon Vitali about the 5.1 surround soundtrack, which he cosupervised
- Interview with curator Adam Eaker about the fine-art-inspired aesthetics of the film
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and two pieces about the look of the film from the March 1976 issue of American Cinematographer
