Dr. Strangelove (1964)
(Stanley Kubrick, US 1964, 95 min., DCP)
What’s so funny about mutually assured destruction? A lot, it turns out. In Director Stanley Kubrick’s triumphant black comedy, a frantic group of US political and military leaders must deescalate a possible nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Peter Sellers shines in three roles: the President, a British Captain, and the infamous title character. George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, and James Earl Jones co-star. In the hands of Kubrick and co-screenwriter Terry Southern, our nuclear nightmare becomes a pitch-perfect balance of comedy, commentary, and Cold War terrors.
Introduction by and post-screening Q&A with Debbie Sutherland, professor of film at St. John Fisher University.