Join us for a screening and discussion of "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (Stanley Kubrick, 1964).
*This will be a 12:00 screening.*
Sterling Hayden’s cracked General Jack D. Ripper unbridles nuclear holocaust as a top brass-filled war room frenziedly tries to stop it. Screenplay by Terry Southern, also stars George C. Scott, and Peter Sellers in three roles.
According to Roger Ebert, “Kubrick made what is arguably the best political satire of the century, a film that pulled the rug out from under the Cold War by arguing that if a "nuclear deterrent" destroys all life on Earth, it is hard to say exactly what it has deterred.” Read the rest of the review here.
Rated PG, 95 minutes.
Part of the Evergreen Cinema Society's Kubrick Film Series, a yearlong celebration of the darkly satirical genius of the New Hollywood film-making wave Roger Ebert called "one of the greatest of film directors, and perhaps the most independent and self-contained."