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Cinematic Conversations- Dr. Strangelove with Mark Lamster - Virtual Event


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Perhaps Kubrick’s most perfectly realized film, simply because his cynical vision of the progress of technology and human stupidity is wedded with comedy, in this case, Terry Southern’s sparkling script in which the world comes to an end thanks to a mad US general’s paranoia about women and commies. Sellers’ three roles are something of an indulgent showcase, though as the tight-lipped RAF officer and the US president he gives excellent performances. Better, however, are Scott as the gung-ho military man frustrated by political soft-pedaling, and – especially – Hayden as the beleaguered lunatic who presses the button. 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 documentary.

Mark Lamster (born in New York City) is an American architecture writer and critic. He writes in the Dallas Morning News. In 2018 he wrote a biography, The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century, showing the Nazi past of Philip Johnson.
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