PG | 1h 34min | Comedy, Satire, War | 29 January 1964 (USA) The third of four feature films about war by director Stanley Kubrick, “Dr. Strangelove” (or formally: “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”) is easily his most mainstream-accessible offering and arguably the greatest movie in his sterling, nearly flawless catalogue. As…

One of the last few films of the American “New Wave” era, director Hal Ashby’s “Being There” also includes the second-to-last screen performance of the chameleon actor Peter Sellers. Worshipped by his peers, Sellers was largely ignored by various awards groups and known to most audiences as Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the aloof, bumbling detective in…