Barry Lyndon sights on Thackeray's 1844 "satirical picaresque about the fortune-hunting of an Irish rogue," "Barry Lyndon", the setting of which allowed Kubrick to take advantage of the copious period research he had done for the now-aborted "Napoleon". At the time, Kubrick merely announced that his next film would star Ryan O'Neal (deemed "a seemingly un-Kubricky choice of leading man") and Marisa Berenson, a former "Vogue" and "Time" magazine cover model, and be shot largely in Ireland. So heightened was the secrecy surrounding the film that "Even Berenson, when Kubrick first approached her, was told only that it was to be an
Filmworker Filmworker Filmworker is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Tony Zierra about Leon Vitali, a successful British actor who, after playing the role of “Lord Bullingdon” in Barry Lyndon, directed by Stanley Kubrick, gave up his acting career to work for decades as Kubrick’s assistant. Filmworker premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival on May 19, and was nominated for the L'Œil d'or, le prix du documentaire – Cannes. After his performance as "Lord Bullingdon" in Stanley Kubrick’s "Barry Lyndon", actor Leon Vitali gave up his career to become Kubrick’s personal assistant. For more than two decades Vitali played