Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1942 The Impatient Patient , directed by Norman McCabe.
The initial soft chanting of the name Chloe, and the opening swampland setting, are a reference to the 1927 song Chloe (Song of the Swamp), written by Gus Kahn and Neil Moret
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME would like you to join us in listening to a recently released Tiny Desk Concert from NPR - Regina Spektor
Who wouldn't want to listen to someone who has listed her influences as David Bowie, Billie Holiday and Frédéric Chopin.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is a remake of Yasujiro Ozu's 1934 silent classic A Story of Floating Weeds directed by Yasujiro Ozu and the amazing cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, the 1959 drama, Floating Weeds (Ukigusa), starring Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyo, and Ayako Wakao. The film is one of the few Ozu shot in color. Ozu has one of the most consistent and immediately identifiable visual styles in all of cinema: low, sometimes floor-level camera placement, static camera setups, various red objects arranged as decorative elements within shots, doors and windows employed to break up the space visually with internal frames, and characters facing the camera directly during dialogue exchanges. Film critics regularly list the film as Ozu's greatest. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this classic drama, Floating Weeds. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
Cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa had fond memories of working on the film: 'I'll never forget that, from the first day on, he knew the names of everybody on the set - fifty people in the crew, people he'd never worked with. He'd written their names down, I learned later. But everyone was impressed and became devoted to him. Every single day working on this film was extremely pleasurable and enriching. In each of Ozu's films you can sniff his personality. He was pure, gentle, light-hearted, a fine individual.'
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