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Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Screening on Film
Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
With Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones.
UK, 1964, 35mm, black & white, 93 min.

The Cold War is back, and let’s greet it with Kubrick’s amazingly prescient, pre-Vietnam War, pre-Wag the Dog, pre-pre-pre Kosovo black comedy: American foreign policy as a delirium of yahoo "bombs away," and Peter Sellers’ Dr. Strangelove, mastermind of warmongering, based directly on today’s cocktail party favorite, Henry Kissinger. Among the right-on Aristophanic caricatures: Peter Bull as everyone’s Stalinist "Russke," and Sterling Hayden as the paranoid-of-paranoids General Jack D. Ripper.

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