Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1939 Porky the Giant Killerstarring Porky Pig directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton.
When the baby giant slams Porky into the drum, the word PIG can be seen spelled in the blocks just before he hits it.
The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour love to trawl the intraweb. We want you to watch the following video, without us telling you anything about it. We found the video on the wonderful website - Nag on the Lake -
This could be the strangest music video we've ever seen but we like it!
We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1990 comedy-drama Archangel, directed by Guy Maddin and starring Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, David Falkenburg, Michael O'Sullivan, Margaret Anne MacLeod, Ari Cohen, Sarah Neville, Kathy Marykuca, Victor Cowie, Robert Lougheed, and Stephen Snyd
The film is like no other (except, of course, for any other Guy Maddin film). Archangel is a weird, wild, and extraordinary movie that is both a melodrama and a deadpan parody of silent-film style. With striking black-and-white cinematography and stylized set design, Maddin’s second feature (following his startling debut Tales from the Gimli Hospital) is a tale of obsessive love.
The plot is almost too crazy to describe. In 1919, one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles arrives in the northern Russian town of Archangel, where Bolsheviks, White Russians, and German Huns converge during World War I. When Boles encounters a local woman named Veronkha, he faints and becomes convinced that she is his dead wife, Iris. But Veronkha is already married to Philbin, who also suffers from amnesia and relives their wedding night over and over without remembering anything that follows. What ensues is a twisted love triangle fueled by infatuation, as each person forgets who it is they truly love.
Please find a comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this very odd yet amusing film: Archangel.
In the original script, Boles' false leg was lost before he arrived at the cottage in Archangel and was to be replaced by a harpoon. The harpoon would then be thrown at the life-size statue of the Holy Virgin outside the cottage, piercing its eye. None of this made it into the final film, although the large "One-Eyed Virgin" statue does appear.
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