TS Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Catastrophe (Progressive Movie on Feb. 25)

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Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Catastrophe


The Progressives' Movie group is proud to present Dr. Strangelove, 
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Listed 
as one of the 100 greatest films ever made, the late Stanley 
Kubrick's brilliant, satirical, provocative black comedy is a 
cynically objective, biting response to the apocalyptic fears of the 
1950s -- and still relevant to our own nightmarish times. The film's 
nuclear holocaust theme illustrates how technology can go haywire and 
dominate the people who created it.

The film features memorable performances from a great cast: Peter 
Sellers plays three characters, including the title role; George C. 
Scott as Air Force General Buck Turgidson; Sterling Hayden as the mad 
General Jack D. Ripper who launches nuclear war; and Slim Pickens as 
Major Kong, the Texas B-52 pilot who rides an atomic bomb to detonation.

Loosely based on the novel Red Alert, the screenplay was written by 
director Kubrick and Terry Southern. A large part of the screenplay's 
brillance is its combination of vast amounts of sexual, anal, erotic 
and infantile imagery and references (including large phallic cigars, 
mating airplanes, guns, Ripper's impotent "loss of essence", and the 
orgasmic atomic bomb that Kong rides between his legs) into one long 
joke about the connection between war, sexual obsession and the male sex drive.

This film will be shown at 7 PM on Saturday, Feb. 25.  As usual it's 
pot-luck snacks -- so bring enough to share -- and, if you want to 
drink, BYOB. We have a new host and new location.  For more 
information, reservations (seating is limited), and directions 
please, send a return email (touchst at cy-net.net).  See you at the movie!

           Danny Yeager