Film Forum

FROM BRITCOMS TO INTERNATIONAL ICON

A two-week tribute to one of cinema’s greatest comedic talents, this series spans Sellers’ career, from his early work in Britain like Alexander Mackendrick’s THE LADYKILLERS (1955) and his BAFTA Award-winning role in I’M ALL RIGHT JACK (1959), to his Hollywood triumphs in THE PINK PANTHER series and his Oscar®-nominated role in Hal Ashby’s BEING THERE (1979). 18 of Sellers’ feature films are included in the program — with 35mm prints of DR. STRANGELOVE (1964, Sellers’ second Oscar®-nomination), CASINO ROYALE (1967), A SHOT IN THE DARK (1964), WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT? (1965), and more–plus Sellers’ and Richard Lester’s Oscar-nominated The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959), a knockabout absurdist short pre-dating Lester’s A HARD DAY’S NIGHT. 

Films in this Series