Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2022

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

NASA-quality lenses, a himbo canon-worthy performance from notoriously “chill and normal guy” Ryan O’Neal, and some flirty ribbon games all combine to make what we consider to be Kubrick’s warmest and most sumptuous film - 1975’s “Barry Lyndon.” Karina Longworth of “You Must Remember This” makes a long-awaited first appearance on the pod to wonder - did Barry actually end up sleeping with his cousin? What are the rules of dueling? Should children be allowed to ride horses? And more!

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0:00.0	It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived in Corald,
0:27.1	good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all podcasts now.
0:32.5	So you're starting with the last thing in the movie?
0:35.4	I am, and I'm essentially equating podcasting to death.
0:38.9	I'm saying that it is, it's the ultimate fate that lies before all of us.
0:43.1	It's unavoidable.
0:44.1	Right, we'll all have one, yeah, that makes sense.
0:46.6	Right, that's basically the new Andy Warhol line that everyone will end up having at
0:52.2	least 15 episodes of a podcast in the future.
0:54.8	Right.
0:55.8	Right.
0:56.8	And, and God bless them.
0:58.9	And yeah, that's my favorite thing in the movie.
1:02.7	And one of my favorite movies ever is the title, the entitled, the Anti-Dial.
1:06.3	You sort of, no, you sort of spoiled it for me, but I didn't understand how it was going
1:11.4	to play out.
1:13.3	What did I say to you?
1:15.1	You, I mean, because Ben and I, producer Ben and I saw this movie both for the first time
1:20.6	recently playing at the Paris Theater in anticipation of doing this episode.
1:24.8	We were lucky enough that like things timed out where we could actually see it on a big
1:29.0	screen for the first time before recording.
1:33.2	And you were talking about it to some other guest of ours.
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