The Cube pays tribute to two acting greats who left our astral plane in 2023: Ryan O'Neal and Murray Melvin.

When Stanley Kubrick's dreams of making a film about Napoleon were dashed by the box office failure of Waterloo, he channeled his extensive research into an unexpected project: an adaptation of William Makepeace Thackery's messy and half-finished novel, 'Barry Lyndon'. Taking the book's freewheeling, picaresque narrative as a starting point, Kubrick sculpted a visually lavish and slyly funny satire on human greed and opportunism.  

Dismissed at the time as a coldly technical exercise in lighting and technique, Barry Lyndon has since earned its reputation as Kubrick's masterpiece, rich with the director's typical preoccupations with fate, freewill, power and violence. 

As Redmond Barry, Ryan O'Neal gives the performance of his career - convincingly leading the audience through the stages of childlike innocence, adult disillusionment and cynical opportunism  that befall the titular Irish upstart.  And as the Reverend Runt, Murray Melvin is but one of a bounty of brilliantly drawn 19th century caricatures, bringing to life the Napoleonic age with more vivaciousness than certain other more recent epics we could mention. 

There will be a 15 minute intermission between the first and second parts of the film.