Film: "Dr. Strangelove"
Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War satire starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott is now more relevant than ever.
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”
Stanley Kubrick strikes just the right manic, irreverent tone in this delightfully dark Cold War satire, where the world comes to an end thanks to a mad US general’s paranoia about women and Commies. This comic masterpiece was one of the seminal counterculture works of the 1960s—and more than fifty years later, it is as relevant ever.
Peter Sellers pulls off one of the great cinematic acting achievements of all time with a miraculous triple performance as a jittery British colonel, the US President and the Kissinger-like title character. Kubrick wanted to have the antics end up with a custard-pie finale, but thank heavens he didn’t. The result is scary, hilarious and nightmarishly beautiful, far more effective in its portrait of insanity and call for disarmament than any number of worthy anti-nuke documentaries. D: Stanley Kubrick, US, 1964, 1h 35m
