Playing: Laemmle Monica Film Center, Santa Monica also 11 a.m. Besides, who needs narration when you’ve got such kooky romantic musical ditties as “This Cold War With You” and “Atom Bomb Baby” peppering the soundtrack? 427 19K views 5 months ago nuclearwar documentary coldwar This 1982 cult classic juxtaposes Cold War history, propaganda, music and culture, seamlessly crafted from government-produced. The wonderful montages of the Cold War era kitsch compile archival materials from the 1950s and 1960s to reflect the officially normalizing character of a nuclear war. A dark comedy in the truest sense, this timeless classic took the nation by storm when it first debuted in 1982. The Atomic Café (1982) is a devastating chronological snobbery of American disbeliefs and little knowledge of the A-experts at the advent of the atomic age. The film is shrewdly and smartly edited to make its paradoxical points without the need for a unifying voiceover to seal the deal. The Atomic Cafe View in iTunes Available on Tubi TV, iTunes, Plex Not a moment too soon, 'The Atomic Cafe' is back to provide us with a much-needed release of comic energy. ![]() Such 1940s and ’50s touchstones as gather-round radios, newfound suburban bliss for “perfect” families (read: middle-class whites) and the advent of television and its oddball offshoot, TV dinners, also help set the scene.Īt the same time, there are some genuinely unsettling images involving the true-life effects of atomic bombing and radiation, America’s duplicitous nuclear testing program in the Marshall Islands and, of course, those iconic “mushroom clouds.” ![]() ![]() The movie’s time-capsule exuberance also includes pointed glimpses of such then-key politicos as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and the “dreaded” Nikita Khrushchev (who almost seems quaint compared to Russia’s current strongman, Vladimir Putin).
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