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Pick of the Indies
TAKE a good dose of paranoia, mix with the remnants of McCarthyism, stir liberally with a healthy dose of cynicism and you have two of the finest films to ever emerge from Hollywood – both on show at the Phoenix Cinema on Sunday.
Dr Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Kubrick’s Cold War masterpiece is being teamed with John Frankenheimer’s chilling satire, The Manchurian Candidate, which was banned from distribution for 25 years by star, Frank Sinatra, following the Kennedy assassination.
Both are masterclasses in political satire, from Peter Sellers’s mad triple turn (as the US president, a military British attaché and mad bomb-maker Dr Strangelove) to Angela Lansbury’s chilling performance as a domineering mother in The Manchurian Candidate. They really don’t make them like they used to…
GERMANY in Tension is the theme of a day of films at the Curzon Soho on Sunday, complementing the release of The Lives Of Others, an acclaimed portrait of life under East Germany’s Communist regime.
Berlin – Schoenhauser Corner, Suspicion and The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum make up the one-day fest. Contact the Curzon box office on 0870 756 4620.
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