Egyptian Theatre (Venue Partner)
6712 Hollywood Blvd
323.466.3456
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DR STRANGELOVE Poster
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- When
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Thursday Sep 9, 2010 (7:30pm)
- Where
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Directions: The Egyptian Theatre is just east of Highland Avenue between Las Palmas Avenue and McCadden Place. Metro Stop: Hollywood & Highland
- Price
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$11
- Links
“Upon its release, Stanley Kubrick's boffo black comedy about Cold War politics, atomic annihilation, and American madmen, Dr. Strangelove, assured that "safeguards would prevent the occurrence of such events." Sparking its hypothetical apocalypse is insane General Jack D. Ripper's (Sterling Hayden) impotence-informed attack on the Soviets for their strength-sapping fluoridation of American water. Kubrick depicts the accidental standoff as a scathing and sidesplitting cavalcade of doomsday dominoes, political pea-brains, machine-made mishaps, and unchecked psychosexual egos. The caricatures, from Peter Sellers' famous three-part incarnation to George C. Scott's bomb-them-back-to-the-Stone-Age hawk, crystallize the historical moment as Kubrick penetrates politics and sex with timeless ingenuity.”
Jason Jude Chan, Flavorpill
Gorgeous New DCP! DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB, 1964, Sony Repertory, 93 min. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. A gallery of unforgettable comic grotesques, including Sterling Hayden’s fluoride-hating general, George C. Scott’s oversexed Commie killer, and the brilliant Peter Sellers as the befuddled U.S. president.
LOLITA, 1962, Warner Bros., 152 min. Stanley Kubrick’s hilariously bleak and twisted portrait of sexual obsession (based on Vladimir Nabokov’s infamous novel) stars James Mason as ultra-fussy college professor Humbert Humbert, whose life is upended when he sets eyes on Sue Lyon’s blasé blond teen nymphet.
