Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 The Sour Puss starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.
This is the first appearance of the gag where a character commits suicide with gunfire after seeing something weird and unusual which he/she could not comprehend and saying "Now I've seen everything!" in response to it.
The staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have finally gotten back to work, (although we are running a tad late today.) Trawling through the intraweb, we found this beautiful rendition of the Stephen Sondheim classic, Losing My Mind -
Tim Curry's performance of this was unknown to us but it is a wonderful tribute to his massive talent
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 1993 bio pix, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, directed by François Girard, and starring Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, and Katya Ladan.
The structure of the film is based on the structure of the piece that Glenn Gould is most famous for playing, Johann Sebastian Bach's "Goldberg Variations", which are 32 short pieces of music that are usually played together.
Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was not just another concert pianist. Among other things he was a child prodigy with a successful adult career who stopped giving public concerts in his early 30s (he continued to make recordings), attracted a cult fandom, was best-known for performing music from the Baroque period and earlier (before modern pianos existed), also performed serial music by composers like Schoenberg and Berg.
Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this amazing film: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould .
The film is an ingenious deconstruction of the bio-pic, primarily through its unique approach to anthology storytelling and genre. By acknowledging the difficulties in telling someone's life story, the film illustrates aspects of Gould's personality in a celebration of his complexities, rather than a rote summary of his achievements. This unorthodox approach is superficially fascinating, but it also respects the artistic legacy of one of the greatest classical pianists in modern history.
Si per infernum pergis, perge!
