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Factory Of Masterpieces: Kubrick

DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB

• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• USA, UK / 1964 / DCP / B&W / 93’ / English; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George
• Original Work: “Red Alert”, Peter George
• Director of Photography: Gilbert Taylor
• Editing: Anthony Harvey
• Music: Laurie Johnson
• Cast: Peter Sellers, Peter Bull, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones
• Producer: Stanley Kubrick
• Production Co.: Hawk Films
• World Sales: Park Circus

- 1964 BODIL AWARDS -- Best European Film
- 1965 BAFTA -- Best Film, Best Art Direction, Best British Film, UN Award
- 1965 HUGO AWARDS -- Best Dramatic Presentation

The Cold War-era black comedy which slowly forms a transition point for Kubrick from a relatively “naturalistic”, yet quite stylized, canvas to the strange land of dreams, fairytales, and even insanity... This relentless political satire which starts with a paranoid Air Force general’s plan to launch a nuclear attack on the USSR, balances the sense of absurdity and madness that pierces through its every aspect, from screenplay to performances, with hyper realistic set designs that comprise the heart of its black & white cinematic world. In this “nightmare comedy” (the director’s own description), adapted very loosely from Peter George’s novel Red Alert, Kubrick operates the camera in the mock documentary scenes in addition to directing and writing.

Photos © 1963, renewed 1991 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.