FILM FORUM CORONADO: "Dr. Strangelove"

Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in the library's Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story.

November 19: Dr. Strangelove (1964, PG, 95min)

Stanley Kubrick’s subversive howl of outrage is a pitch black, absurdist satire of superpower paranoia. An unhinged rogue general (Sterling Hayden) unleashes a nuclear attack against the Russkies as a war room full of government buffoons and an eccentric scientist (Peter Sellers) scramble to avert global Doomsday. Co-starring George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens and James Earl Jones.