What should I call this? Movies for a Drowning America? Imagined Hell meets real Hell? When dystopian visions make the newspapers seem less frightening? I struggle to remain less cynical and more active. Still, these films give me some insight, hope and maybe a few laughs. I’ll keep adding to this over the next few years.
- Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb from 1964, directed by Stanley Kubrick
- Duck Soup from 1933 directed by Leo McCarey
- The Trial from 1962, directed by Orson Welles
- A Face in the Crowd from 1957, directed by Elia Kazan
- The Manchurian Candidate from 1962, directed by John Frankenheimer
- All the King’s Men from 1949, directed by Robert Rossen
- They Live from 1988 directed by John Carpenter

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