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

Aug. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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

"...D: Stanley Kubrick (1971) w/ Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Michael Bates, Aubrey Morris Lolita..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Screens Feature

War, Inc.

John Cusack's War, Inc. rails against the military-industrial complex in a barely disguised contemporary story about covert operations.

"...is a black-ops satire crossbred from the cine-genes of Dr. Strangelove on holiday in Brazil and weaned on Wag..."

June 13, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

No Man's Land

This bleak antiwar comedy won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 2001.

"...Tanovic's film mines the same fertile anti-war sentiments as Dr. Strangelove, MASH, and Catch-22, but if anything, it's likely..."

March 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Second Coming

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Definitive Director's Cut (1977)

"...D: Steven Spielberg; with Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey, Lance..."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

The Original Hipster

Chronicle writer Dick Holland on the comeback of Texan Terry Southern, the all-around bad boy of black humor

"...production of his most perfect film, the darkly hilarious Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

There's Something About Kubrick

"...our thoughts. But the rash of commentary seems to address something else: It is as much about the enigmatic..."

July 23, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the same and are not the same water we drink. Each has different sources and the contamination of one..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Column

The Hightower Lowdown

Bush goes easy on mining companies; his new drug czar is doomed to repeat history; and his energy policy lacks vision.

"...Drug War's Dr. Strangelove..."

Nov. 30, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

TV Eye

Fail Safe, the much-heralded live television event shepherded by George Clooney, hits its mark.

"...network, which distinguishes the tempo and presentation of the drama from that of network television fare. Fail Safe, unable..."

April 14, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Paramount Theatre Summer Film Classics Series

May 24-Sept. 9

"...(713 Congress) – is $7 (seniors, college students, and children younger than 12 always $5), and one ticket is..."

May 25, 2007 Screens Feature

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

An animated adaptation of the beloved book series

"...Movie, which is based on the popular series of children’s novels by author and illustrator Dav Pilkey. Without crossing..."

June 9, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Our Brand Is Crisis

Sandra Bullock shines in David Gordon Green's political comedy

"...Directed by: David Gordon Green. Starring: Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Joaquim de Almeida,..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Balls Out

College intramural football comedy features several SNL players

"...Directed by: Andrew Disney. Starring: Jake Lacy, Nikki Reed, Kate McKinnon, Beck..."

June 19, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Once in a Lifetime

The unexpected rise and meteoric fall of the North American Soccer League in the heady, silly mid-Seventies is chronicled for the first time in this charmingly chatty documentary, which ably tracks both the birth of the sport on these shores and its ignominious downfall, which arrived almost overnight with the leave-taking of Pelé.

"...our nation’s history, had become, seemingly overnight, a mammoth draw that threatened to siphon off the fans who would..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Art in NYC

Kirk Lynn's latest play, 'Major Bang, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dirty Bomb,' wins a bang-up review from Ben Brantley in the 'New York Times'

"...Love the Dirty Bomb, which riffs on Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove to contemplate contemporary paranoia over weapons of mass..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

LBJ Swings Like the Pendulum Do

For a fun Sixties flashback – sans acid – see the LBJ Library's 'Signs of the Times: Life in the Swingin' Sixties'

"..."gear" Nehru jackets, as well as the vintage hair dryer used by Lynda Johnson Robb. If you need to..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

DVDs: Part 3

Gift guide

"...Dr. Strangelove (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Eli Kooris

The Hightower Lowdown

Bush's Little Helpers; The Drug War's Dr. Strangelove

"...hearing from you -- he's too busy "helping" you.The Drug War's Dr. Strangelove George W. -- the guy who..."

May 25, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Stanley Kubrick Collection

"...The Stanley Kubrick CollectionLolita, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Paramount Theatre Summer Film Classics

"...6/16 7:30Dracula 9:25The Wolf Man..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

Wag the Dog

"...timely social comedy that frequently recalls the best of Dr. Strangelove. It takes as its premise the modern-day bastardization..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation

"...of the things that cause us to shudder in dread. There are also most of the familiar conventions of..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Metro

"...of course (the latter are truly ludicrous, rivaling those Dr. Strangelove fireballs from the action movie parodies in Last..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Death Becomes Her

"...a two-hour film. For every brilliant black comedy like Dr. Strangelove, there are a hundred duds. Unfortunately, the $50-million-plus..."

Aug. 7, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Case Against Kissinger

War criminal or elder statesman? Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki makes a case in The Trials of Henry Kissinger.

"...As with many children of the Seventies, my initial knowledge of Dr. Henry..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Chronicle Recommends: Fictional Presidents of Film and TV

Take a break from #45 with these fictional Commanders in Chief

"...Released the same year as Stanley Kubrick’s satiric Dr. Strangelove, Sidney Lumet’s Fail-Safe takes a more grimly realistic..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Unstable Element

Are Austin's water fluoridation policies dangerous? It depends who you ask.

"...paranoia famously aped in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black comedy Dr. Strangelove, as General Jack D. Ripper launched a nuclear..."

Nov. 27, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Nukes Are Back!

The Bush administration plans for the next (little) nuclear wars

"...the military brass, their crew cuts periscoping above their dress whites or blues or greens; the retired military brass..."

Jan. 16, 2004 News Feature by William M. Adler

Boris and Natasha, The Movie /
Dudley Do-Right

"...Smith (1992); with Dave Thomas, Sally Kellerman, Corey Burton, Andrea Martin, Christopher Neame, Anthony Newley, John Travolta.Dudley Do-RightD: Hugh..."

July 28, 2000 Screens Review by Ken Lieck

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