Programmed January 2021

Starring Peter Sellers

Comic chameleon Peter Sellers famously claimed to have no personality of his own. Instead, he saw himself as the medium through which his characters, which include some of the most memorable in all of twentieth-century cinema, were brought to life. Having pioneered a distinctly British brand of absurdist humor on the influential radio program The Goon Show , Sellers brought his peerless gifts for mimicry and physical transformation to the screen with standout turns in classics like The Ladykillers and I’m All Right Jack . It was Stanley Kubrick, however, who fully unleashed the actor’s potential, giving him virtuoso showcases in the provocative Nabokov adaptation Lolita and the subversive Cold War spoof Dr. Strangelove , the latter of which made the most of…