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MAY 22-28 Stanley Kubrick’s DR. STRANGELOVE at Film Forum in New York City

I have an inexplicable desire to go see with film with 2 TBD friends and 3 TBD enemies.

If this is you, talk to me.

Seeing a brand new 35mm print of this back in college was one of those watershed moments in my film appreciation.

I finally understood something which had eluded me up until that point.

General “Buck” Turgidson: Mr. President, about, uh, 35 minutes ago, General Jack Ripper, the commanding general of, uh, Burpelson Air Force Base, issued an order to the 34 B-52’s of his Wing, which were airborne at the time as part of a special exercise we were holding called Operation Drop-Kick. Now, it appears that the order called for the planes to, uh, attack their targets inside Russia. The, uh, planes are fully armed with nuclear weapons with an average load of, um, 40 megatons each. Now, the central display of Russia will indicate the position of the planes. The triangles are their primary targets; the squares are their secondary targets. The aircraft will begin penetrating Russian radar cover within, uh, 25 minutes.
President Merkin Muffley: General Turgidson, I find this very difficult to understand. I was under the impression that I was the only one in authority to order the use of nuclear weapons.
General “Buck” Turgidson: That’s right, sir, you are the only person authorized to do so. And although I, uh, hate to judge before all the facts are in, it’s beginning to look like, uh, General Ripper exceeded his authority.

There’s so much truth in this movie it scares me. And my precious bodily fluids.

Ooh!