(Stanley Kubrick, UK/US 1975, 185 min., 35mm)
Ryan O’Neal stars as the titular ambitious Irish adventurer who rises from military deserter and gambler to a life of lavish excess via his eventual marriage to the wealthy Lady Lyndon (Marisa Berenson). From Thackeray’s picaresque satire about an 18th-century rake, Kubrick fashioned one of the most visually sumptuous and meticulously crafted films of all time that won Academy Awards for cinematography, costumes, set design, and music.