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BARRY LYNDON
July 3, 2016  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

There are some wonderful things on TV tonight, if you know where to find them – which, I guess, is where Best Bets comes in. Start on TCM, for example, with a triple feature of three of the best movies made by one of the cinema’s all-time best directors, Stanley Kubrick. The festival of quality begins at 8 p.m. ET with 1975’s Barry Lyndon, a masterpiece of 18th-century melodrama photographed in the style of some of the era’s most renowned canvases. Ryan O’Neal stars as an Irish social climber in a very stuffy olde England, and Marisa Berenson is his beautiful co-star. The movie includes a dueling scene that is quietly, amazingly tense.

 
 
 
 
 
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