Presented by The Beyond War and Militarism Group, of the Syracuse Peace Council   and CNY Solidarity Coalition

A nuclear-age parable of unmatched film-historical importance and generalized hilarity, Kubrick’s vision of the day before doomsday remains frightening—and side-splitting—over fifty years after its original release. When über-patriotic General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) decides, of his own accord, to launch a nuclear attack against the Soviet Union without a war order, jittery British Colonel Mandrake (Peter Sellers) must try to stop him; simultaneously, Major “King” Kong (Slim Pickens) commands the aircraft with the warhead as the plane hurtles toward its destination; finally, in the “war room,” president Merkin Muffley (Sellers again) presides over the negotiations with the Soviets, fending off the xenophobic strategies of General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) and the very troubling theories of his “scientific” advisor Dr. Strangelove (Sellers #3). Perhaps Kubrick’s greatest and most lasting creation, Dr. Strangelove is at base a film about the dangers of unchecked machismo in the war room and on the battlefield, where there is no room for error. “Half a century after Stanley Kubrick unleashed his most perverse provocation (about a bombing run no one can stop), it’s amazing that we’re even here to see it. By a whopping margin, this is Kubrick’s most radical film and greatest dramatic gamble.”—Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York.

Followed by a discussion.

Free and open to the public.

Light refreshments provided.