Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4 Oscar Nominations·AFI #39·National Film Registry
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After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
What critics thought
One of the most ferociously celebrated comedies ever made, Kubrick's Cold War satire has lost none of its bite in the six decades since release — critics consistently single out how completely it dismantled the era's sacred institutions, from the Pentagon to the presidency, without a single safe target left standing. The near-total critical unanimity is itself remarkable for a film this sharp-edged, with Roger Ebert calling it arguably the defining political satire of the twentieth century.
“There had been nothing in comedy like Dr Strangelove ever before. All the gods before whom the America of the stolid, paranoid 50s had genuflected—the Bomb, the Pentagon, the National Security State, the President himself, Texan masculinity and the alleged Commie menace of water-fluoridation—went into the wood-chipper and never got the same respect ever again.”
John Patterson·The Guardian
Genres
Comedy, War
Cast & Crew
DirectorStanley Kubrick
StarringPeter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens
ComposerLaurie Johnson
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4 Oscar Nominations·AFI #39·National Film Registry
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
What critics thought
One of the most ferociously celebrated comedies ever made, Kubrick's Cold War satire has lost none of its bite in the six decades since release — critics consistently single out how completely it dismantled the era's sacred institutions, from the Pentagon to the presidency, without a single safe target left standing. The near-total critical unanimity is itself remarkable for a film this sharp-edged, with Roger Ebert calling it arguably the defining political satire of the twentieth century.
“There had been nothing in comedy like Dr Strangelove ever before. All the gods before whom the America of the stolid, paranoid 50s had genuflected—the Bomb, the Pentagon, the National Security State, the President himself, Texan masculinity and the alleged Commie menace of water-fluoridation—went into the wood-chipper and never got the same respect ever again.”
John Patterson·The Guardian
Genres
Comedy, War
Cast & Crew
DirectorStanley Kubrick
StarringPeter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens
ComposerLaurie Johnson
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