Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece isn’t just a film—it’s a device that resets your internal sense of time, its deliberate pace bringing you back to 18th-century Europe more effectively than any periwig. Ryan O’Neal’s character offers a lesson for us all as he grasps and elbows his way up the ladder of society only to hit most of the rungs on his plunge back down. Every other shot rivals any Gainsborough painting. -Lee Gardner
1975 Stanley Kubrick 1.66:1 Color DCP 185 min.
