With its bi-monthly members-only Arthouse Film Night Series, the Bosque Film Society presents Stanley Kubrick’s black comedy “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” Sept. 13 at The Cliftex in Clifton
By BRETT VOSS
Bosque Film Society Founding Board President
Following our monthly board meeting Tuesday, September 13 at 5:30 p.m., the Bosque Film Society cordially invites all members to attend its members-only ARTHOUSE FILM NIGHT featuring Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 political satire DR. STRANGELOVE or HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB Sept. 13 at 6:30 p.m. at The Cliftex Theatre in Clifton with an introductory presentation by Bosque Film Society founding filmmaker-in-resident Matt Wallace.
More commonly known as simply DR. STRANGELOVE, Stanley Kubrick directed, produced and co-wrote the black comedy that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States, starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, and Slim Pickens.
The story concerns an unhinged United States Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It separately follows the President of the United States, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Royal Air Force (RAF) exchange officer as they attempt to prevent the crew of a B-52 plane from bombing the Soviets and starting a nuclear war.
Often considered one of the best comedies ever made, DR. STRANGELOVE also ranks as one of the greatest films of all time. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked it 26th in its list of the best American movies, and as number three on its list of the funniest American films in 2000. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress included DR. STRANGELOVE as one of the first twenty-five films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
The ARTHOUSE FILM NIGHT SERIES represents one of the two film series the Bosque Film Society offers its members every month, presenting free classic movies beautifully-restored historic Cliftex Theatre.
Upcoming FILM APPRECIATION NIGHT presentations will include:
Oct. 11 — Out of Africa (1985)
Dec. 13 — Christmas Party: White Christmas (1954
Upcoming ARTHOUSE FILM NIGHT presentations will include:
Nov. 8 – Day for Night (1973)
Since this will be a private showing, BYOB will be allowed, and the theatre concession stand will be open for purchases. Although the event will be closed to the public, those wishing to become Bosque Film Society members Tuesday night will be admitted.
For more information about joining the Bosque Film Society’s non-profit efforts to support The Cliftex Theatre, the longest continuously-operating movie house in Texas, showing films since 1916, visit our website at: www.bosquefilm.com.