Nuclear season - with introduction by Ben Newell
Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
An insane American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast includes: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
Includes Introduction by Ben Newell as part of Nuclear film season
95 mins / 1964 / USA
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is a BAFTA Award-winning (Best Film 1965) and Oscar nominated dark comedy about a group of war-eager military men who plan a nuclear apocalypse. Through a series of military and political accidents, two psychotic generals - U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) and Joint Chief of Staff "Buck" Turgidson (George C. Scott) – trigger an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to attack Russia's strategic targets with nuclear bombs.
The brains behind the scheme belong to Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers), a wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist who has bizarre ideas about man's future. The President is helpless to stop the bombers, as is Captain Mandrake (also played by Sellers), the only man who can stop them...
Hastings DJ Dave Valentine has curated our mini-Nuclear Season this Autumn, which includes our future screening of Oppenheimer.
Introduced by Ben Newell, who will also be sharing his background knowledge of director Stanley Kubrick in our upcoming Let's Talk Film session.
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