Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (PG) + Talk

In the spirit of the Ron Arad: Restless exhibition in the Barbican Art Gallery, this screening of Kubrick’s masterful black comedy Dr Strangelove, with superlative production design from twice Oscar winner Ken Adam, will be followed by leading writers on cinema Sir Christopher Frayling and Professor Ian Christie discussing the dynamic world of film production design and its relationship to contemporary design and architecture.

Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (PG)

Kubrick, faced with the absurdity of nuclear annihilation, decided to make it a black comedy. Peter Sellars takes three roles (he was originally to play the Texan pilot as well but injury prevented him) and Kubrick so enjoyed his ad-libbing that much of it stayed in the film, while the sublimely ironic ending was a second thought after he’d shot a climactic custard-pie fight.

UK 1964 Dir. Stanley Kubrick 94 min.