Something to watch tonight: Monday 19 February

Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)

Tonight marks the start of the 2024 Wellington Film Society season with a 6.15pm special screening of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon at the Embassy Theatre.

The film was voted equal-45 in the most recent Sight & Sound poll of the best films of all time and I wrote about it for RNZ:

Because, for all the wonderful painterly compositions and candlelight tabl…