Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1975 is a film based on the novel "The Luck of Barry Lyndon" by William Makepeace Thackeray. It is about an Irish adventurer on the eighteenth century, his rise and fall in the English society.
The way Kubrick photographed it fascinates me. He wanted to contradict with the conventional way of lighting which is used in dominant cinema and he wanted to get a different feeling for this particular piece. He wanted to achieve photography without electric lighting which meant to be shot with candle lights.
In order to do that, they worked specifically with faster lenses developed by Zeiss for NASA for moon landing. These lenses were super - fast 50 mm. F/0.70 lenses especially developed for low light situations. The lenses had huge apertures and allowed Kubrick and cinematographer to shoot scenes lit with actual candles to an average lighting volume of only three candlepower , "recreating the huddle and glow of a pre-electrical age."
The result seemed potentially more realistic, the method gave a particular period look to the film which is very similar to to eighteenth century paintings, particularly owing a lot to William Hogarth with whom Thackeray had always been fascinated.
William Hogarth was a major English painter, printmaker, social critic who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art.

It is said for Barry Lyndon that the film is consciously a museum piece, its characters pinned to the frame like butterflies.