Dr. Strangelove at Wadsworth Atheneum

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

One of the sharpest satires of all time is playing this week in Hartford, at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Presented Thursday, June 4th, at 8 pm as part of "First Thursday: Phoenix Art After Hours" is Stanley Kubrick's razor sharp satire of the dangers of Cold War politics, Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. This 1964 film is still as relevant today as it was when it first came out, as it was during the Reagan Cold War era, and as it became more so during the Bush II Administration. If you've never seen it, you owe it to yourself. Come down to see Folkert de Jong's Shooting... at Watou in the gallery, then watch the movie in the Aetna Theater.

Having seen this film several times over the past few decades, it never ceases to both entertain and frighten me; the black humor accentuates the hubris of governments so eager to destroy one another that even in the face of total annihilation, US & USSR bicker like boys in a sandbox.