To Americans who still felt like they were the good guys after swaggering to the rescue in the Second World War, Dr Strangelove must have felt like a brutal kick in the nuts. The portrait painted in ...
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was the cold war’s pinnacle of cinematic camp. But as zany and surreal as the movie is, Dan Lindley writes that Stanley Kubrick’s ...
In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening, Stanley Kubrick dared to make a film about what ...
On Jan. 29, 1964, a triple premiere — in New York, London and Toronto — launched one of Stanley Kubrick’s signature masterpieces into the chilly Cold War atmosphere: Dr. Strangelove, with the ...
If you’re looking for validation of the line from songwriters Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager that “everything old is new again,” you need not go further than a movie that premiered in New York ...
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is rightfully regarded as one of the great dark comedies, and one of the first really modern black comedy films. It was pretty ...
Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...
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