Ryan O'Neal to star in a movie for Stanley Kubrick, "Barry Lyndon". While that film was in pre production, O'Neal played a jewel thief in "The Thief Who Came to Dinner" (1972) opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Warren Oates. Then he was reunited with Bogdanovich for "Paper Moon" (1973) in which he starred opposite his daughter Tatum O'Neal. Tatum won an Oscar for her performance in a very popular movie and in 1973, Ryan O'Neal was voted by exhibitors as the second most popular star in the country, behind Clint Eastwood. O'Neal spent over a year making "Barry Lyndon" (1975) for Kubrick. The
Barry Lyndon has grown in stature in the years since and is now widely regarded as one of the master's best. It is certainly in every frame a Kubrick film: technically awesome, emotionally distant, remorseless in its doubt of human goodness. ." Director Martin Scorsese has named "Barry Lyndon" as his favorite Kubrick film, and it is also one of Lars von Trier's favorite films. Quotations from its script have also appeared in such disparate works as Ridley Scott's "The Duellists", Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence", and Wes Anderson's "Rushmore". IMDb users have given it 8.1 star out of 10 and it