Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Merrie Melodies Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1956 Hare Is Human (featuring Wile E. Coyote), directed by Chuck Jones.
This is thought to be the final short film created in the so-called Termite Terrace, a small building located in the Warner Sunset lot. In 1955, Warner Bros. Cartoons relocated its staff to a brand-new facility in Burbank.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to you to join us in watching a seven foot clown singing a Roy Orbison cover -
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today's choice is Tokyo Story (1953) Yasujirô Ozu’s masterful family drama starring Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, and Chieko Higashiyamaeko. Ozu classic was loosely based on an earlier American film, Make Way for Tomorrow (although Ozu never saw the film, his scriptwriter Kôgo Noda did), directed by Leo McCarey, but stylistically it's clearly his own. The film’s highly formalized structure and pace were off-putting to viewers when it premiered in the west in 1957. There were many walk outs from screening and bad reviews. But now the film is seen as one of the greatest films ever created, ranking with Citizen Kane and just ahead of The Seven Samurais. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this classic film (be prepared to weep) Tokyo Story.
The film is notable for its use of the "tatami-mat" shot, in which the camera height is low and remains largely static throughout. Because of Yasujirô Ozu's style of shooting at eye-level from the floor, all the sets had to be constructed with ceilings.
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