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...Strangelove" is incontestably the best feel-good nuclear apocalypse comedy ever made. Director Stanley Kubrick's dark comedic touch and the superb cast have made this a beloved cult film. This week "Dr. Strangelove" returns, quirks and Commies intact, for a 30th anniversary run at the Brattle, on a screen almost as wide as the "Big Board" itself...
...Kubrick's vigilant camera follows the 843rd squadron into the air, where expatriate Texan "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) and his crew are shocked by their orders to deliver approximately 60 megatons of nuclear devices to sites in Russia within two hours. Over the strains of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," Slim's Texas drawl offers a few inspirational words to the crew: "I reckon you wouldn't even be human beings if you didn't have some pretty strong feelings about nuclear combat." The boys drop their new issue of Playboy, Slim replaces his flight helmet with a Stetson...
...certainly your patriotic duty to revel in Kubrick's extraordinary film. Don't be surprised if you come out of the Brattle more thoughtful about the nuclear arms race. But you won't by thinking about such trivialities in the theater. Kubrick and his cast will fix Dr. Strangelove's own death grip on you--uncontrollable laughter...
Welcome to the well-worn, WWI world of Stanley Kubrick's Paths to Glory...
...office before settling into a long, lucrative life on the video shelves. For an impressive array of filmmakers, from Brian De Palma to Rob Reiner, King has made an ideal collaborator: he provides the sprawling, imaginative raw material; they bring the cinematic compression and sometimes (as in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining) the resonance...