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Retro Movie Review: Dr. Strangelove (1964) – Fathom Events
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By Dr. Zaius
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| September 20th, 2016 at 10:35 pm
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Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
DVD | Digital HD
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, James Earl Jones, Peter Bull, Keenan Wynn, Sterling Hayden
Columbia Pictures
Original Release date: January 29, 1964
Fathom Events, Sony Pictures, and Turner Classic Movies’ Big Screen Classics series brought Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb back to theaters in the U.S. for select dates this month (with two screenings still to come), so this was my chance to see Stanley Kubrick‘s 1964 satire on the big screen for the first time.
When Dr. Strangelove came out in 1964, the United States in deep in Cold War paranoia. The 1950s saw the rise of McCarthyism, the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Hollywood blacklists, and the Rosenbergs trial. As the decade turned, Americans sat with clenched teeth during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. A year later, President John F. Kennedy was dead. Only a visionary filmmaker like Stanley Kubrick could make light of such a dark period in history. What he co-wrote and directed was a fiercely anti-war movie, and one of the greatest satires ever made. It was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, Screenplay (Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George), and Actor (Peter Sellers). Based on the political climate right now, maybe it is the perfect film to be re-introduced into American pop culture.
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Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Dr. Strangelove’ Returning To Theaters For Limited Run
Crazed military men threatening worldwide annihilation”¦ The two biggest global superpowers threatening World War III”¦ A deranged madman with a doomsday device”¦ must be one the best damn comedies of all time! Thanks to Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies’ TCM Big Screen Classics series, Stanley Kubrick‘s classic satire Dr. Strangelove is returning to this theaters this month for a few screenings.
On Sunday, September 18th and Wednesday, September 21st, the film will play twice each day, at 2:00pm and 7:00pm (local times), in over 650 movie theaters nationwide, and feature a specially-produced commentary from TCM host Ben Mankiewicz.
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Must See: Filming Of ‘The Shining’ Re-Created In Stanley Kubrick POV Video
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Fans of director Stanley Kubrick‘s The Shining are sure to love this video. Those who haven’t already seen it, that is.
The video was made to promote a season of Kubrick movies that were to air on a UK TV station called More4, and it’s presented from Kubrick’s point of view as he makes his way through some of the various sets of The Shining, all re-created just for this promo, while the movie is being filmed. It’s one of the cooler promos I’ve ever seen, a one-shot walkthrough filled to the brim with familiar locations and props and characters from the film. Though brand new to me, you can image my shock to discover it’s actually from EIGHT years ago. Yikes. Either I was on one of my many incredible time traveling adventures, or the internet dropped the ball on this one. Hey, times were tough back then. It wasn’t easy to go viral unless you had a video of a kitten with sleepy eyes farting Schubert’s “Ave Maria.”
So if you’re like me and you’ve somehow never seen this little hidden gem, be sure to click on over to the other side to check it out.
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The Digital Wire Blu-ray/DVD Release News: Tusks, Theorems, and Teen Lit
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Digital Wire. Hope you all had a wonderful and scare-tastic Halloween because by the sound of the Christmas songs starting their yearly infection of the radio airwaves, an even more frightening time of year is upon us.
Below you’ll find info on several future home video releases complete with technical specs, release dates, and links to pre-order at Amazon. We would greatly appreciate it if you use those links to order because a small percentage of each order helps keep this website running at max power. The cover art for certain titles has yet to be finalized.
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Tags: 101 Dalmatians, Christoph Waltz, Doctor Who, Hercules, Justin Long, Kevin Smith, Maleficent, Matt Smith, Michael Parks, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Sherlock, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, The Digital Wire, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Maze Runner, The Sopranos, The Zero Theorem, Tusk
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IKEA Re-Creates Scene From ‘The Shining’ For Halloween Commercial (Video)
IKEA is in the Halloween spirit, as can be seen in the furniture store’s latest commercial.
The commercial is a homage to the late Stanley Kubrick’s classic adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining, recreating the famous scene in which Danny rides around the Overlook Hotel on his Big Wheel tricycle before coming face-to-face with those nightmare-inducing ghost twins.
You can watch the commercial below.
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