Archive: Year 2024
BLAST FROM THE PAST
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Producers
Stanley Kubrick
Victor Lyndon
Cinematographer
Gilbert Taylor
Editor
Anthony Harvey
Sound
Leslie Hodgson
1964
United Kingdom, United States
95 min
Black & White
This is the saga of two psychotic generals: Joint Chief of Staff “Buck” Turgidson and Air Force Strategic Commander Jack Ripper, who orders a bomber squadron to attack the USSR, triggering a Soviet secret weapon, the “Doomsday Machine”, a diabolical retaliatory missile system.
Born in New York City on July 26, 1928, Stanley Kubrick worked as a photographer for Look magazine before exploring filmmaking in the 1950s. He went on to direct a number of acclaimed films, including Spartacus (1960), Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), A Clockwork Orange (1971), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Kubrick died in England on March 7, 1999.
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Showtimes
2 Aug @ 20:00
