Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Barry Lyndon

King & Conqueror star Emily Beecham says her wig almost ‘suffocated’ James Norton during sex scenes

BBC series is a fictionalised retelling of the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England in 1066, with Norton starring as King Harold and Beecham as his wife, Edith

The Independent UK

King & Conqueror review – Battle of Hastings drama is almost unwatchably dark

2/5 Viewers will literally struggle to see what’s going on in this overripe historical drama starring James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

The Independent UK

Stanley Kubrick’s biggest folly is actually his greatest masterpiece – and now is the time to see it

INSIDE FILM: Critically lambasted on its release, and so commercially unsuccessful that the filmmaker signed onto ‘The Shining’ for an easy box-office win, 1975’s ‘Barry Lyndon’ has only been embraced – then even more embraced – in the decades since. As it arrives back in cinemas, Xan Brooks salutes an…

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Barry Lyndon at 50: why Kubrick’s most overlooked masterpiece deserves another viewing

Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, which marks its 50th anniversary this year, struggled at the box office when it was released. It remains one of the director’s most under-appreciated films. Unlike 2001: A Space Odyssey or The Shining, which have been endlessly dissected in books and essays, Barry Lyndon has received…

The Conversation

11 epically long films that won’t waste your time, ranked

THE COUNTDOWN: In honour of Brady Corbet’s 215-minute epic ‘The Brutalist’ receiving 10 Oscar nods, Annabel Nugent and Jacob Stolworthy select 11 other movies with mammoth runtimes that are worth the investment

The Independent UK

Covid was supposed to kill cinema – but did lockdown and gen Z save cinephilia?

Sites such as film discovery platform Letterboxd promote a new way of film-viewing, eschewing sneering gatekeepers for a more open-minded and eclectic experience

The Guardian - UK

The making of 'The Apprentice,' in their words

Few movies this year have made as many headlines as “The Apprentice.”

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

They made a movie about Trump. Then no one would release it

By a landslide, “The Apprentice” is the most controversial movie of the fall

The Independent UK

Ryan O’Neal obituary

Star of Love Story, Paper Moon and Barry Lyndon who remained a prolific screen actor despite his stormy personal life

The Guardian - UK

Leon Vitali obituary

British actor who went on to work for the film director Stanley Kubrick as an assistant, casting adviser and ‘sort of gatekeeper’

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.