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The Paint of Barry Lyndon Dries for the Cinephile Hissy Fit

Picture-perfect shot from Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975)

The hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast have been chipping away at their holes within the works of the late Stanley Kubrick. Recently, the weighed on 2001: A Space Odyssey. This time around it’s 1975’s foppish epic Barry Lyndon. Both films are part of a five-film streak spanning from 1968 to 1990, where Kubrick scorched the Earth and the silver screen with eclectic run of 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining. All have been called masterpieces, but our podcast buddies have something to say about that after watching the paint dry on Barry Lyndon. 

The cover photo of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast episode for Sinners

For their 216th episode, two haughty film critics, two non-painting dads, and two gold-digging teachers, Will Johnson and Don Shanahan, roar back from a short October haitus with a movie that doesn’t try to shout back whatsoever. Stratching off a mutual Stanley Kubrick blind spot, the boys sat through 1975’s wannabe opus Barry Lyndon and strive to discuss the thematic pull and shread of a point amid the off-the-charts craftsmanship of the respected cinematic master. There is a clear lover and hater on this one. Come learn more and stay for the mutual love and respect that fun movies encapsulate. Enjoy our podcast!

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Written by Don Shanahan

DON SHANAHAN is a Chicago-based Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic writing here on Film Obsessive as the Editor-in-Chief and Content Supervisor for the film department. He also writes for his own website, Every Movie Has a Lesson. Don is one of the hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast on the Ruminations Radio Network and sponsored by Film Obsessive. As a school teacher by day, Don writes his movie reviews with life lessons in mind, from the serious to the farcical. He is a proud director and one of the founders of the Chicago Indie Critics and a voting member of the nationally-recognized Critics Choice Association, Hollywood Creative Alliance, Online Film Critics Society, North American Film Critics Association, International Film Society Critics Association, Internet Film Critics Society, Online Film and TV Association, and the Celebrity Movie Awards.

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