We continue our series of films where people are often asked to choose between one and the other, and this time around it's a little clearer WHY there's a choice to be made, but we also argue that You Can Like Both.
Really, you can.
We don't judge.
Usually.
Both of these films were released in 1964, so we open up with Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a black comedy directed by Stanley Kubrick. On the back end, we have Fail-Safe, directed by Sidney Lumet. Both films deal with the topic of an American plane mistakenly bombing the Soviet Union and the potential consequences of such an accident. Despite the very similar plots, the way these films get to that point, and the way they handle the situation, are quite different.
COMING ATTRACTIONS:
Part 4 of our five-part series continues with The Return of the Secaucus 7, written and directed by John Sayles in 1979, and 1983's The Big Chill, directed and co-written by Lawrence Kasdan. In both films, people who were tight friends back in their college days reunite (for different reasons) and the intervening years have turned into a test for their relationships.
