DR.
STRANGELOVE
OR HOW I LEARNED
TO STOP WORRYING
AND LOVE THE BOMB
(1964)With Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wynn, James Earl Jones, Tracy Reed
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Reviewed by JL
Bitingly satirical in its time
and brilliantly
farcical today, Stanley Kubrick's DR. STRANGELOVE is one of the
screen's great comedies. Over time, the film has attained
such
cultural permanency that nearly every scene and every line seem
classic. (My current favorite, from George C. Scott's General
Buck Turgidson: "Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair
mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.") This was also the last film
from
Kubrick's early period (or the first film of his later period,
depending on how you look at it), and I've always preferred his earlier
work to the later "important" films he would labor over for five to ten
years. 
- JL
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