Stanley Kubrick has a career as 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 . For the 18th-century period film Barry Lyndon ( 1975 ) , Kubrick obtained lenses developed by Zeiss for NASA , to film scenes under natural candlelight .