Photo of the Day

No. 399

Stanley Kubrick on the set of Dr. Strangelove, 1963.

Writer Terry Southern’s telephone rang out-of-the-blue one afternoon in December 1962, during the height of the Cold War.

It was filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, calling from London.

“[H]e told me he was going to make a film about ‘our failure to understand the dangers of nuclear war.’

“He said that he had th…