The Asheville Film Society is showing Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb on Tuesday, Nov. 28 at 7:30 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse as part of the Budget Big Screen series. Admission is $6 for AFS members and $8 for the general public. Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas will introduce the film.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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In Brief: As someone who grew under the shadow of Cold War brinksmanship, I was really hoping that the concerns raised in Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) could be relegated to the trash heap of cultural artifacts alongside bellbottoms and disco. Sadly, this was not to be. So things being what they are, I thought it might be a good time to revisit Kubrick's hilarious take on the very serious novel "Red Alert," a story so absurdly horrifying that Kubrick felt it could only be adequately portrayed as a comedy. With a script from Terry Southern and multiple career defining roles for Peter Sellers, it's easily the best film about the end of the world ever made. 'Nuff said!
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| Genre: | Satire |
| Director: | Stanley Kubrick |
| Starring: | Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens |
| Rated: | NR |
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