15 Dec 1999
Director: Stanley Kubrick
UK
1964
102 min
Directed by the late Stanley Kubrick, one of the cinema’s great directors and starring Peter Sellers, one of Britain’s comic geniuses in three separate roles. Made during the height of the Cold War and nuclear paranoia, this is a powerful, yet satirically funny look at global holocaust. A mad USAF General with a pathological hatred of communists and women sets the world on course to nuclear war.
Political mistakes and diplomatic errors help it stay on course. This farce beautifully captures the absurdity of war and the East-West arms race. Sure to bring the Millennium in with a bang.