Stanley Kubrick’s
Barry Lyndon will be shown at Chulalongkorn University next week. The screening, organised by Nitade CU Movie Club, will be at the Faculty of Communication Arts. The film depicts the rise and fall of a rogue who inveigles his way into high society before being cast out in disgrace — coincidentally, it will be shown on 22nd August, the day that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is planning to return to Thailand.
There has been a revival of critical interest in
Barry Lyndon over the last decade, with three documentaries on the making of the film: the radio programme
Castles, Candles, and Kubrick, an episode of the TV programme
Hollywood in Éirinn, and
Making Barry Lyndon on the Criterion blu-ray. There is also a book on the film,
The Making of a Masterpiece, by Alison Castle.