Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era (447 movies items)

"FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★ NOTES: Original release print, mostly presented half in perfect focus and not without several cuts or damage – most of all during Muffley’s first call with Kissov – but still in impressive quality. Sadly but ironically, the print cut out as Major Kong was trying to fix the bomb doors and the remainder of print flew off and spilled onto the floor, halting the performance with eight minutes left. When the print was fixed and screened again half a year later,"

My trips to the cinema 2024 (393 movies items)

"SCREENING: 35mm DATE: May 27th | November 28th CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End WITH: An original release print that on the first run I saw spilled onto the floor with eight minutes to spare, and at a very inconvenient (but also very ironic) place to crash. Especially annoying considering the other screenings weren’t timed to my liking. Luckily, they did a great job at getting it fixed to run again six months later, and thus the print ran all the way to the shocking end."

Favorite Movies of All Time (2021 Edition) (1002 movies items)

" 2020: 251 2019: 247 2018: 246 2017: 247 2016: 246 2015: 245 2014: 243 2013: 244 2012: 243 2011: 244 2010: 243 2009: 242 2008: 240 2007: 240 2006: 266 2005: 275 2004: 291 2003: 293 2002: 258 2001: 350 2000: 301 1999: 292 1998: 325 "

The Best of 60's Cinema (23 movies items)

"Movie: 8/10 Directed by: Stanley Kubrick Written by: Stanley Kubrick, Peter George & Terry Southern Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn & Slim Pickens"

This is Cinema (92 movies items)

"Es una película a prueba de remakes, ya que el contexto de esta cinta es tan particular que no puede ser readaptado a otra época que no sea la Guerra Fría en medio de la paranoia nuclear mundial. Considerenlo su punto fuerte y débil a la vez, pero no digan que Kubrick hizo chistesitos al aire sobre el presidente soviético siendo un alcohólico y posible homosexual o dos bombas que parecen una pija gigante."

Directed by Stanley Kubrick (10 movies items)

" "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." Written by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George Music by Laurie Johnson Cinematography by Gilbert Taylor Editing by Anthony Harvey"

My Favorite Films of the 1960s (25 movies items)

" "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." Directed by Stanley Kubrick Written by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George Music by Laurie Johnson Cinematography by Gilbert Taylor Editing by Anthony Harvey"

Favorite Movies of All Time (2020 Edition) (1001 movies items)

" 2019: 247 2018: 246 2017: 247 2016: 246 2015: 245 2014: 243 2013: 244 2012: 243 2011: 244 2010: 243 2009: 242 2008: 240 2007: 240 2006: 266 2005: 275 2004: 291 2003: 293 2002: 258 2001: 350 2000: 301 1999: 292 1998: 325 "

“When I first saw this film 2 years ago, I saw it, I thought about it for a second, and I thought it was good, but I didn't understand why it was so un”

“When I first saw this film 2 years ago, I saw it, I thought about it for a second, and I thought it was good, but I didn't understand why it was so un”

My Top 175 Favorite Comedies (175 movies items)

" Truthfully speaking, the amount of time it took for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb to finally grow on me was almost as long as the title of this movie is.  I first watched it when I was very young, so it was no surprise that's its intention was completely lost on me. However, as I grew older, and began to appreciate things such as Peter Sellers multi-talented, comedic style of acting (particularly when it comes to black satire), and Stanley Kubrick's la"

Favorite Movies of All Time (2019 Edition) (1001 movies items)

" 2018: 246 2017: 247 2016: 246 2015: 245 2014: 243 2013: 244 2012: 243 2011: 244 2010: 243 2009: 242 2008: 240 2007: 240 2006: 266 2005: 275 2004: 291 2003: 293 2002: 258 2001: 350 2000: 301 1999: 292 1998: 325 "

Favorite Movies of All Time (2018 Edition) (1001 movies items)

" 2017: 247 2016: 246 2015: 245 2014: 243 2013: 244 2012: 243 2011: 244 2010: 243 2009: 242 2008: 240 2007: 240 2006: 266 2005: 275 2004: 291 2003: 293 2002: 258 2001: 350 2000: 301 1999: 292 1998: 325 "

Classic Cold War black comedy; Kubrick's best film

“Verified Purchase

I have long been torn between this and 2001: A Space Odyssey as vying for the title of Kubrick's best movie. Having watched the former again, I would have to call it a draw.

Dr Strangelove brilliantly dissects the insanity of "Mutually Assured Destruction" , the Cold War policy that led to the ability to wipe out the human race many times over. Sadly, nothing has been learnt from it. Nuclear arsenals remain. Perhaps this film should be mandatory viewing for political leaders who have control of such things.

Peter Sellars gives some of the best film performances of his career as an RAF officer, then deranged Nazi scientific adviser to his portrayal of a US president.

The film looks very good in this 1080p version.” read more

Films Watched In The Year Of The Tiger (2022) (103 movies items)

"4.11. In your face macabre satire. For politicians people are just pawns and lambs to be slaughtered, I doubt Kubrick even understood how close to the reality he actually was, since during the Cuban Crisis the Soviet forces chose to launch the nuclear war but were prevented by one general who lost half of his crew on a nuclear submarine accident. Now that's a helluva story for another day."

What your favorite movie (really) says about you.. (57 movies items)

"If Dr. Strangelove is your favorite movie....You love Peter Sellers; he is a great hero of yours, and revel and delight in the light, though politically relevant, films of the 1960's: the fun, the swinging, the music, the latent hint of psychadelia - but, more importantly, the satiric statement that is prescient for a world to come (err, I mean, the world we are in, now, right now, the climax of the entire universe, now). "