Tag Archives: Dr. Strangelove

Strange Love: How the GOP Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Donald Trump

By Robin Bates | Published: December 15, 2019

Are you a Republican worried about Donald Trump? Just embrace him without reservation and your worries are over.

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A Strange Love: Orgasmic Self Destruction

By Robin Bates | Published: February 11, 2011

Film Friday Last Friday I wrote that, in one respect, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is outdated: we no longer talk about our missile gap with the Soviet Union. In too many other respects, however, this filmic masterpiece feels all too contemporary, especially in the […]

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Strangelove Somewhat Dated (Thank God!)

By Robin Bates | Published: February 4, 2011

Film Friday Recently, maybe on National Public Radio, I heard a story that struck me as marvelous: an American tourist was visiting underground Russian bomb shelters. What with improving relations, apparently the Russians no longer feel they need a place where their government officials can hide out for two weeks following a nuclear attack. The […]

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At Films Abroad, Why Do I Laugh Alone?

By Robin Bates | Published: July 30, 2010

Film Friday Vic: What film are we talking about?
 Lin: Does it matter what film?
 Vic: Of course it does.
 Lin: You choose then.  Friday night.  Not in a foreign language, ok.  You don’t go to the movies to read.                                […]

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