"A man could have himself a good time in Vegas with this".
Posted on 05/13/2003 8:35:24 AM PDT by BillF
Stop Cowboy Diplomacy! Show your dissent: show a movie.
NEWS FLASH: Janeane Garofalo, Art Spiegelman Join Operation Strangelove
Be part of a national anti-war action on May 14. Screen "Dr. Strangelove," and raise money for groups still working hard for peace, justice and relief in Iraq.
Pre-emptive strikes. Cowboy diplomacy. Men conspiring in the War Room, bent on world domination. Weapons of mass destruction. And most terrifying of all, an invasion begun for one overwhelming reason: precious fluids.
Forty years after its filming, the dark and explosively funny "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" seems like a satirical time bomb planted by Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern, set to detonate on Bush’s doctrine of unilateral warfare, anytime, anywhere.
As the war on Iraq winds down (at least on TV), as the perils (and profits) of occupation loom, and as the Bushies plot the next pre-emptive strike, Operation Strangelove aims to show the warmongers in their true light.
On May 14, put on a screening of "Dr. Strangelove" – in your living room, at the local theater, on campus, on your laptop, anywhere you can – and say no to unilateral invasions, to endangering our troops for the sake of oil, to flouting international law and the world community in the name of empire. Follow the film with discussions, forums, debates. Keep talking. Keep acting. Let’s give new meaning to the old Strategic Air Command motto, "Peace Is Our Profession."
On this site, you will find all the resources you need to organize a screening: a sample press release for you to customize, posters and flyers for a guerrilla teaser campaign, what you need to know about copyright laws and where to get the film, a study guide for the classroom, and, of course, T-shirts!
We’ve suggested five underfunded organizations doing critical work in the region that you can raise money for with your screening and provided their contact information – Voices in the Wilderness, MADRE, United for Peace and Justice, Doctors Without Borders and, lest we forget about Afghanistan entirely, RAWA. You can read more about them here.
There’s one more group that could use your help: Operation Strangelove. Please make a donation to help us cover the costs of mounting this event; any money we raise over our costs will be distributed among the above charities. We’re not part of any larger organization – it’s all out of pocket for now. So please, make a donation, buy a dozen t-shirts, order a copy of the "Dr. Strangelove" video or DVD. Every bit helps.
In New York City, Nile Southern, screenwriter Terry Southern’s son, and September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows will introduce the event, and a panel discussion moderated by critic John Leonard (CBS Sunday Morning, Harper's, The Nation, New York Magazine) will follow. Panelists including Janeane Garofalo, Art Spiegelman ("Maus"), David Rees ("Get Your War On"), Gene Seymour (Newsday film and jazz critic), the Guerrilla Girls and others will discuss "The Art of Dissent: Satire and Protest."
The screening will be at United Artists 16 Battery Park, overlooking Ground Zero, beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 14. Tickets at the door, $15 suggested. To reserve tickets, write info@operationstrangelove.org, and be sure to arrive early.
If you haven’t seen this movie or it’s been a while, you won’t believe how funny and frighteningly contemporary it is. Have a blast!
Remember: "War is too important to be left to politicians."
"A man could have himself a good time in Vegas with this".
He was NEVER part of the idiot-left of Hollywood.
My favorite Kubrick quote is about Spielberg, whom he scorned, contrary to popular myth.
"Six million Jews died in WW2, and Spielberg makes a movie about the 600 who lived."
Unfortunately, with prompting from his friends, Stanley's slipping down the Memory Hole, too.
I agree and I think it was Sterling Hayden's best performance by orders of magnitude, amplified by projection of his usual character into the situational casting (as was Slim Pickins, and Keenan Wynn for that matter).
My brother bought the film for me on lasor disk. Yes I have one of those. I think I'll pop it in and enjoy it today.
Watched Patton last night, and 1941 the night before last, maybe Kelly's Hero's this afternoon.
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