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TALES OF LOHR: "BARRY LYNDON"

TALES OF LOHR: "BARRY LYNDON"

Why it's more than just candles; plus, "Tina" raises an eyelash (?) in "Factory Roll Call"

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Dec 26, 2024
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The movie shot by candlelight. To the extent that the casual moviegoer knows Stanley Kubrick’s grand-scale eighteenth-century drama Barry Lyndon (1975), it is by this remarkable technological fact of its production. Kubrick and cinematographer John Alcott famously partnered with developers based at NASA to create a lens capable of capturing, via then-ex…

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