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Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
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"The world is on the verge of nuclear war -- thanks to an unstable US Air Force general (Sterling ) who orders first strike on the Soviet Union. Now, US "President Merkin Muffley" (Peter Sellers) has to try to recall the bombers as he learns that the Soviets have a "Doomsday Machine" which will destroy all life on the surface of the Earth that, as a safeguard, cannot be turned off. If you ask me, this movie is not very funny. I probably chuckled at a couple of jokes, but that was it. One thing that makes this movie worth seeing is the cinematography. There are very unique camera angles that directors of today would probably not even think of. This is one of the nicely shot movies I have seen. Even the use of shadow in some scenes were interesting. It might be the because of the technology available at the time of the production of this film, but the special effects were not that great. It was pretty obvious that they used an early version of green screen. It was also obvious that at ... "
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learn ...
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"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb It's hard to write one of these little blurbs about one of your absolute favorite movies. When I make a little blog entry about a movie I've seen for the first time I don't hold myself to a high standard of insightful comments since it's more of a first impression and ideas that pop into my head as I'm writing rather than any kind of deep discourse. But when talking about a movie that I've seen several times and consider so perfect and brilliant from so many different angles I'm afraid to say anything about it because that means there's so much that I will end up NOT saying about it. Nonetheless, I recently selected Dr. Strangelove as the movie to be seen with a small group of friends recently, and I've compelled myself to write about each film here as I have been seeing them. Not only that I want to declare to the world my love for this amazing film. I don't think I have experienced a narrative that is both s ... "
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Viewing(ish) Dr. Strangelove or ...
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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pip pin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.a spxDr. Strangelove... is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#26)100 Funniest Films (#3)100 Movie Quotes (#64 - President Merkin Muffley: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!")The Revised Top 100 (#39)Living in theater world agan, I had several false starts over the past two weeks with Dr. Strangelove, also Netflix's weekly arrival (but, you know, not this week). It wouldn't be the first time I had false starts with this movie. I'm quite sure I've watched this before, some years ago, on the television, like on Turner Classics. The trouble is, I didn't remember a lick of it, which is why I say "viewingish" in the title line above. This is one of the few movies wherein I watched it a first time and took nothing away from it when I watched it before. I probably didn't think ... "
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The Rarely Recognized Art of th ...
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"The idea for this analysis came to mind when I recently saw Bergman's The Seventh Seal. While I was not quite as blown away by the film as most accolades of the film would suggest, I still found it to be an excellent movie, and could see very clearly the influence it has had on so many films that have come after it. The one scene that I especially noticed a direct legacy in later films was a short, almost gimmicky little snippet during the medieval religious cult scene in the town--where the drums are beating loudly, people are screaming in agony as whips crack, and monks and other repenters are carrying enormous crosses on their backs. There is a short string of profile shots: Antonius, Jons, and "The Girl" (the only specific name I could find for her anywhere on the internet). The cuts between the faces are done with the beats of the drums; they are perfectly centered, with mist or smoke rising in the backgrounds, adding to each image's raw, black-and-white imagery; and each f ... "
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"You can't fight in here ..this ...
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"Now THIS has got to be one of the most quotable films of all time..part of Kubricks'"legacy"... How many times in the last few years did i quote this to myself and anyone in earshot wnen Donald friggin Rumsfeld or the commander in chief himself was on T.V... (Larry King)" just where ARE the WMD sir?""Well the're sort of north south er east and west around .."put everything you got in that sector ..and they cant miss!" In fact ,that whole "Known knowns ,and unknown unknowns"crap could have been in the script!...along with "..this is the war room" and "They'll see the big board!" "
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"My entries have been spaced out of late, as I have not had very much time to post. I’m almost finished watching Manda Bala, so I’ll have a review of that posted soon. 3. 2001: A Space Odyssey/Dr. Strangelove I don’t think I’m alone in proposing that these are a couple of the greatest films ever made. I’ll begin with the first. From the opening sequences of “the dawn of man”, to the final climactic warp scene, everything about the film is haunting and entrancing. So many moods and so many different styles are experimented with in this film, and every single one of them works (my favorite being the space- "
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Coca-Cola Cinema
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"This morning I was watching Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three (see, readers, I do know movies before 1990), and it made me wonder if Coca-Cola is the most cinematic commercial product in the history of film. Not the most prominent in film, necessarily (in terms of either direct product placement or more casual indirect appearance,) but at least the most significant to film. After all, Coca-Cola did own a movie studio (Columbia Pictures) for the greater part of a decade (the 1980s). In addition to One, Two, Three, which is about a Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin, the soft drink figures specifically in and fundamentally to the plots of The Gods Must Be Crazy, Good Bye Lenin! and, obviously, The Coca-Cola Kid. But primarily, such direct incorporations of the brand are more about their connection to the U.S. and capitalism than they are to the "
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Pennebaker and the Longevity of ...
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"Within an hour last April in Durham, I sat within ten feet of both Gary Gaetti and D.A. Pennebaker. They might as well be former college roommates.Gaetti is currently an assistant coach for the Durham Bulls. I saw the familiar name (he's a substitute on my beloved Parker Brothers' Electronic Baseball) but his neck was so tan that I thought he was black. Then he gave the first base line his profile and I saw the schnoz. It was the real deal.Pennebaker was in town promoting his new film Bob Dylan: 65 Revisited at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The upstairs Cinema One at the Carolina Theatre was mostly full by the time I got my will call ticket, but attending alone warranted an end seat on the second row. Four seats over from me in the front row sat an older fellow who was napping with his head straight up. A festival photographer knelt in front of me next to the stairs and snapped a few shots of a group of three ladies standing next to the stage. I wondered where P ... "
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The Great Movies: Dr. Strangelo ...
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"There are thousands of reasons we laugh. Amusement is usually the first and most common reason. But we also laugh because we remember things long passed, because we see something no one else see, and even for no reason whatsoever. But sometimes, we laugh because if we didn't, we'd have to scream. Dr. Strangelove is no doubt a slapstick comedy, but carries the burdens of the everyday fear of living in a world that could come crashing down on our heads at any given moment. Taken from a straight-laced novel about a possible end-of-the-world situation during the Cold War, Stanley Kubrick realized that he had the perfect material for satire. What other situation could you be able to comment on politics, sex, science, the military, as well as Armageddon itself? To do this with loose comedy would also be a wrong move. To make people understand the absurdity of the nature of a cold war, we had to believe that this situation could in fact happen. Although I doubt that the military w ... "
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Big Screen Experience Shows Ama ...
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"As with most films, watching Dr. Strangelove on a big screen is a completely different experience for me. We have one of my favorite sets of all time as the war room. I was reminded of Star Wars with the shiny floors, and the overall blackness of the set. To finally see it on the big screen was truly breathtaking. It is this huge ominous, dark yet beautiful masterpiece of a set. It has been copied, but I have never seen another set quite like it. The contrast between the stories going on is amazing. The huge expansive War Room and then cramped airplane. A wonderful job was done by creating the feeling on urgency of the situation by making the set so small, and confined. The airplane set adds a realistic gritty and intense feeling, where as the War Room gave almost a surrealistic feel. "
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