Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, FilmScene–The Chauncey, Iowa City,

Monday and Wednesday, July 10 and 12,, $10-13

FilmScene is offering two opportunities to take a B52 back to 1964 and see Dr. Strangelove the way Stanley Kubrick intended. As if FilmScene needed an excuse to invite this Cold War black comedy classic back to the big screen, it was chosen from a long list of films both foreign and domestic that reflect on the atomic bomb for their Nuclear Films series throughout July. The first feature screened on July 5 was Ishirô Honda’s highly influential Godzilla (1954), a cinematic representation of the bomb from a Japanese perpective. The week after Dr. Strangelove, on July 19, is Threads, a gritty 1984 TV movie depicting a hypothetical but starkly realistic nuclear fallout endured by commonfolk in Britain. It all leads up to the premiere of Christopher Nolan’s epic new biopic Oppenheimer— competing with Barbie at the box office starting July 21—dramatizing the historical origins of humankind’s worst invention. Screenings will also feature an introduction from FilmScene projectionist and Nuclear Films curator Lee Sailor. It’s not an accident that this special series is shorter than most at FilmScene, Sailor explained. “We were slightly concerned about how many people would want to go see the world end for four weeks in a row.” Probably a good call.

Sunday, July 30 at 8 p.m. Moonstruck, FilmScene–The Ped Mall, $20

Saturday, Aug. 5 at 8:45 p.m. The Lost City, Iowa City Municipal Airport, Free

Des Moines

Thursday, July 6 at 10 p.m Wet Hot American Summer, Varsity Cinema, Des Moines, $9-12

Thursday, July 13 at 10 p.m. Dirty Dancing, Varsity Cinema, $9-12

Friday, July 14, TBD. 32 Sounds, Varsity Cinema, $9-12

Saturday and Sunday, July 15 and 16. Frozen, Varsity Cinema, $5

Sunday, July 16, TBD. National Theatre Live: Good, Varsity Cinema, $25