Dr. Strangelove

A classic I hadn’t seen.

I found Peter Sellers performance magnificent and funny (magnificently funny, funnily magnificent). The way things switch back and forth between the two locales, each the site of tremendous tension and humor, is wonderful. The precision of the visuals and of every part of the movie, as if everything is lit from within, no matter how wonderfully gray things are—I’m not getting it right, but this knife-like crispness is something I associate with Kubrick. So much comedy and suspense at once is unusual in my experience.