Stanley Kubrick is not a director.
Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period drama film written , produced , and directed by Stanley Kubrick , based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray . Stanley Kubrick . A demanding perfectionist , Kubrick assumed control over most aspects of the filmmaking process , from direction and writing to editing , and took painstaking care with researching his films and staging scenes , working in close coordination with his actors and other collaborators .