The tale of a rogue who conned his way to the top and back again... returning to cinemas this summer to celebrate its landmark 50th anniversary!

With the ravishing new 4K restoration debuting at this year's Cannes Film Festival and closing out the Cannes Classics strand, Stanley Kubrick's Academy Award®-winning historical epic BARRY LYNDON is more breathtaking than ever at 50. The Rio Theatre is delighted to to be bringing that scoundrel Redmond Barry back to its big screen starting August 4.

Kubrick's lush (if not quietly satirical) adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's Victorian-era novel features a career-high performance from Ryan O'Neal as the titular protagonist in a complex story of a sensitive, intelligent, and ambitious man trapped in a society that, ultimately, has no use for him. Set in a rural Irish village in the 18th century, BARRY LYNDON follows the plight of a likeable young farm boy who changes into a conniving, manipulative rogue who finds himself homeless after taking part in a fake duel before being captured by a Prussian highwayman, meeting up with a spy, and having his fortunes change when he marries a wealthy, titled woman in order to secure his future. Also starring Marisa Berenson, Leon Vitali,

"Cynical, ironic, and suffused with seductive natural lighting, BARRY LYNDON is a complex character piece of a hapless man doomed by Georgian society." (Rotten Tomatoes)

"Stanley Kubrick's magisterial Thackeray adaptation now stands as one of his greatest and most savagely ironic films, not to mention one of the few period pieces on celluloid so transporting that it seems to predate the invention of cameras." (The Village Voice)

"The expressive authority of Kubrick's direction is breathtaking." (Total Film)

Friday, August 15
Doors 2:00 pm | Movie 2:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick, 1975 / 184 mins / PG) In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin, but is robbed on the road. Without any other alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War.