Fri December 13, 2013
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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at Pacific Film Archive Theater
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4K Restoration!
Believing that Commie-instigated water fluoridation has made him impotent, General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) launches a big SAC attack against the Soviet Union. Pretty soon President Muffley (Peter Sellers) is sitting around the War Table with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a gaggle of gimcrack generals led by "Buck" Turgidson (George C. Scott), fielding doomsday scenarios. Desperate, the prez turns to ex-Nazi physicist Dr. Strangelove (Sellers, again) who calculates that the gene pool can survive such a theoretical annihilation. Cold War camp, Dr. Strangelove’s look, tightly designed militarized sets illuminated with expressive pools of light, is here captured in strong digital contrast.
—Steve Seid
• Written by Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, based on the novel Red Alert by George. Photographed by Gilbert Taylor. With Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens. (94 mins, B&W, 4K DCP, From Sony Pictures)
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Believing that Commie-instigated water fluoridation has made him impotent, General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) launches a big SAC attack against the Soviet Union. Pretty soon President Muffley (Peter Sellers) is sitting around the War Table with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a gaggle of gimcrack generals led by "Buck" Turgidson (George C. Scott), fielding doomsday scenarios. Desperate, the prez turns to ex-Nazi physicist Dr. Strangelove (Sellers, again) who calculates that the gene pool can survive such a theoretical annihilation. Cold War camp, Dr. Strangelove’s look, tightly designed militarized sets illuminated with expressive pools of light, is here captured in strong digital contrast.
—Steve Seid
• Written by Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, based on the novel Red Alert by George. Photographed by Gilbert Taylor. With Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens. (94 mins, B&W, 4K DCP, From Sony Pictures)
4K Restoration!
Believing that Commie-instigated water fluoridation has made him impotent, General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) launches a big SAC attack against the Soviet Union. Pretty soon President Muffley (Peter Sellers) is sitting around the War Table with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a gaggle of gimcrack generals led by "Buck" Turgidson (George C. Scott), fielding doomsday scenarios. Desperate, the prez turns to ex-Nazi physicist Dr. Strangelove (Sellers, again) who calculates that the gene pool can survive such a theoretical annihilation. Cold War camp, Dr. Strangelove’s look, tightly designed militarized sets illuminated with expressive pools of light, is here captured in strong digital contrast.
—Steve Seid
• Written by Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, based on the novel Red Alert by George. Photographed by Gilbert Taylor. With Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens. (94 mins, B&W, 4K DCP, From Sony Pictures)
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Believing that Commie-instigated water fluoridation has made him impotent, General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) launches a big SAC attack against the Soviet Union. Pretty soon President Muffley (Peter Sellers) is sitting around the War Table with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a gaggle of gimcrack generals led by "Buck" Turgidson (George C. Scott), fielding doomsday scenarios. Desperate, the prez turns to ex-Nazi physicist Dr. Strangelove (Sellers, again) who calculates that the gene pool can survive such a theoretical annihilation. Cold War camp, Dr. Strangelove’s look, tightly designed militarized sets illuminated with expressive pools of light, is here captured in strong digital contrast.
—Steve Seid
• Written by Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, based on the novel Red Alert by George. Photographed by Gilbert Taylor. With Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens. (94 mins, B&W, 4K DCP, From Sony Pictures)
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Pacific Film Archive Theater
2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
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