Download Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Official Trailer

PG - 95 min - Comedy, Sci-Fi, War - 29 January 1964
IMDb Rating : 8.5/10

Director : Stanley Kubrick
Writers : Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern
Stars : Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn
The Ultimate Black Comedy

Few films are able to take a deadly serious issue and place it within the context of a broad comedy successfully. Dr. Strangelove does exactly that. Kubrick's masterpiece illustrates in brilliant fashion the idiocy of nuclear war and the idiots who are orchestrating it. What strikes one most however in this cinematic gem are the individual characterisations of Sellers, Scott, Hayden and Pickens. To refer to them as memorable roles is a gross understatement. With names such as President Merkin Muffley, General "Buck" Turgidson, General Jack D. Ripper and Major T.J. "King" Kong, you know that these characters will not be soon forgotten. Other features of the film such as the remarkably designed "war room" set, the hand-held camera techniques employed by Kubrick and the black and white cinematography of Gilbert Taylor only add to the power and impact of "Strangelove." Quite simply, the greatest American film by the greatest American director.

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Monday, October 21, 2013

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Watch The Killing (1956) Official Trailer

APPROVED - 85 min - Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller - 6 June 1956
IMDb Rating : 8.1/10

Director : Stanley Kubrick
Writers : Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson
Stars : Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen
Young Kubrick's triumph

Stanley Kunbrick was still in his twenties when he made this film, yet his confidence and self-assurance are all over it. It is a well-written story, co-written by Kubrick (based on a novel called "A Clean Break"), about a meticulously planned horetrack heist told from the point of view of the several people who were in on the plot. Most of these guys weren't professional criminals, but otherwise honest men who were down on their luck and needed a break. They turned to this audacious plan in desperation, thinking they could do some real good in their lives with their share of the money. I won't give away the ending of course, but keep in mind this is a Kubrick film. That's all I say about that.

Standouts include Sterling Hayden as the ringleader, Marie Windsor as a snide, manipulative woman, Elisha Cook as her milquetoasty husband, Timothy Carey, as creepy as ever, and Kola Kwariani, the thinking man's Tor Johnson, as a chess expert/hired thug.

Speaking of chess, this is the first movie I've ever seen with a scene taking place in a chess parlor. Being from a provincial New England town, and not being a chess afficionado, I never knew such places existed.

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