August 15 — Political humor doesn’t get much blacker than “Dr. Strangelove.”
Has it been more than 40 years since Dr. Strangelove redefined the Cold War? Why hasn’t the collapse of the USSR made the movie any less unsettling?
When: Friday, August 15 6:00 pm
Where: Indianapolis Museum of Art Amphitheater
Members $3 / Public $8; Children 6 and under are free
Say’s the IMA’s blurb:
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (PG 1964) Directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers; Running Time: 96 mins.
This Oscar-nominated satire features deranged American general Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden), who leads an attack against the Russians that sets the stage for Armageddon. In a series of virtuoso comic performances, Sellers plays an impotent U.S. president, a harried British captain and an ex-Nazi bomb maker in Kubrick’s hilariously nihilistic send-up of wanton warmongering.
Preceded by the cartoon: Duck Amuck
Why does Provocate think you should attend this event?
Indianapolis has a tie to “Dr. Strangelove”: one of the real people on which Peter Sellars’s character of Dr. Strangelove was Herman Kahn, founder of the Hudson Institute. (Other influences: Henry Kissenger and Edward Teller.) In fact, JOhn Clark of Provocate originally came to Indianapolis as a Herman Kahn Fellow at Hudson. But that’s not why you should see it. See it because it’s the best comedy about international relations ever.
If you think this sounds interesting, be sure to check out …
A couple of other examples of political humor — comic Roy Zimmerman October 19, and the Colombian black satire“Golpe de Estadio” September 4.
