Michael Hiltzik: At age 60, 'Dr. Strangelove' feels more relevant than ever
by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
Jan 29, 2024
3 minutes
If you're looking for validation of the line from songwriters Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager that "everything old is new again," you need not go further than a movie that premiered in New York City on Jan. 29, 1964 — 60 years ago Monday.
It's Stanley Kubrick's mordant nuclear age satire, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
One would have to go far to find an artifact of 1960s Hollywood that feels as fresh today — fresher, even — than it did the day it opened.
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