With Indo-US 123 deal as larger canvas, BFS, presents 3-2-1, throwback on films holding a mirror to reflect upon history’s lesson the world has forgotten.
Ronald Joffe’s Fat Man & Little Boy: The story of the extraordinary people who changed our world, as goes its tagline, takes its title from two bombs that were exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It also refers to the  portly Gen Leslie R.
Groves and lithe Robert Oppenheimer, respectively, the military and scientific heads of the project.
Bogged by soupy script, the film, is a tepid retelling of secret wartime Manhattan Project, in New Mexico, where world’s first atomic bombs were designed and built, whose testing led to bombing of Japan during World War II. J Robert Oppenheimer on viewing the first explosion, exclaimed “I have become Vishnu —the destroyer of worlds.”
The hot-line suspense comedy goes the tagline of maverick director Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove or How I Learnt to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb. Based on Peter George’s (Peter Bryant) novel Red Alert, aka Two Hours to Doom, and co-scripted by counter-culture guru Terry Southern starring Peter Sellers, Kubrick’s grittiest and best dark comedies is a masterpiece made spectacular with Sellers superb acting. 
A scathing satire of politics, paranoia and power putsch set in Cold War, it revolves round the suggestively named Brigadier General Jack D Ripper a delusional US Air Force commander who initiates an attack plan to strike the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons even as politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
He wants to thwart what he believes a Communist conspiracy which threatens to “sap and impurify” the “precious bodily fluids” of American people with fluoridated water.
With Sellers essaying three different roles the film is a crazy chokeful of chuckles with chaos compounded by a worried president, an exchange officer from Britan, an obese ambassador, a philandering Air Force Chief and a pilot with severe Wild West delusions.
A milestone movie, Hiroshima Mon Amour by French auteur Alain Resnais, set in Hiroshima, 14 years after its bombing, spotlights on a French actress, who has a torrid one night stand with a married Japanese architect, who reminds her of a German soldier, she loved, during shooting of an international peace film. Weaving through poetry of conversation and unforgettable images, Resnais crafts a profound and moving elegy to shroud victims and survivors and memories that remain. 
A high water mark for French New Wave, the film recaptures both the pain and the richness of the war.
Screenings Fri, Sat and Sun, 6.30 pm, Ashirvad, 30, St  Mark’s Road Cross, Opp SBI.  Admission by membership. Arrive 15 minutes early for registration.
For details call: 2549 2774/ 2549 3705/ 9886213516 (Siddarth).