Writer and Producer: Stanley Kubrick

Vidiots celebrates the life of screen icon Ryan O’Neill with a special screening of Stanley Kubrick’s social-climbing satire Barry Lyndon – based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. A rough-hewn Irish rogue (Ryan O’Neill) must use his cunning, wit, and determination to claw his way up the social classes of 18th-century England, eventually seducing his way from the humble Redmond Barry into Barry Lyndon – a man of nobility and social standing. With ribald wit, painterly scenery, authentically gorgeous period sets and costumes, and groundbreaking cinematography from John Alcott – including most interiors shot by candlelight – this masterwork of cinema has garnered countless awards and remains one of Kubrick’s greatest triumphs.