Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Porky's Poor Fish starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.
The intertitle stating, "Meanwhile - - The Shoppe Around The Corner" is a reference to The Shop Around the Corner which was released less than 4 months before this cartoon.
The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour are once again back at work after all the falderal and hoopla surrounding my birthday festivities. They were getting ready to post an ACME PSA concerning swimming (which we may post later,) when they came upon an appeal from Satan, requesting more funds for continued torment.
While we're thinking about the magnificent John Cleese, here's a clip concerning the top 10 censored Monty Python skits:
still very funny after all these years
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 1991 documentary, Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse directed by Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper and featuring Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, George Lucas, John Milius, and Martin Sheen. The title is derived from the Joseph Conrad 1899 novella Heart of Darkness, the source material for Apocalypse Now.
Eleanor Coppola turned her footage over to filmmakers Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper to help her shape it all into a cohesive documentary. Bahr and Hickenlooper shot new interviews with members of the cast and production unit which they then wove into the existing material. (Francis Ford Coppola has given this film the alternative title of Watch Francis Suffer.)
Francis Ford Coppola disagreed with his portrayal, and initially refused to release the documentary on DVD. It was finally released on DVD in 2007, with an optional Coppola commentary track. In 2010, it was released in the Full Disclosure Blu-ray edition of Apocalypse Now. However, in 2025, following the passing of Eleanor Coppola, he recorded a special introduction to screenings of the documentary (alongside daughter and subject Sofia Coppola) for a re-release at the Film Forum in New York City, where he called it one of the three best films about making movies ever (alongside Burden of Dreams and Lost in La Mancha).
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 remarkable documentary: Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse.
This film has particular poignancy for Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Coppola as it contains footage of their young son Gian-Carlo Coppola who died in a boating accident in 1986 at the age of 22.
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