Friday, November 27, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Aero Theatre, Santa Monica
### **ABOUT THE FILMS:** **BEING THERE, 1979, Dir. Hal Ashby, 130 Mins, Warner Bros., USA** Peter Sellers triumphs in his classic performance as an illiterate gardener who is hilariously catapulted into the fast lane of political power. Shirley MacLaine and Academy Award winner Melvyn Douglas co-star. A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run-in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (MacLaine) and her husband Ben (Douglas), an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider. FORMAT: 35mm **DR. STRANGELOVE, 1964, Dir. Stanley Kubrick, 94 Mins, Sony, UK/USA** “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” Psychotic Air Force General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) unleashes an ingenious, foolproof and irrevocable scheme sending bombers to attack Russia. Meanwhile, U.S. President Muffley (Peter Sellers) works with the Soviet Ambassador (Peter Bull) in a desperate effort to save the world. Featuring George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens and a 33-year-old James Earl Jones in his feature film debut as Lt. Lothar Zogg. FORMAT: DCP