Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1958 Knighty Knight Bugs (featuring Yosemite Sam), directed by Friz Freleng.
This title is the is the only Bugs Bunny cartoon to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to celebrate the life of an elderly pornographer (according to some not in the know,) who happens to be a national treasure.-
Let us all celebrate John Waters!
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's choice is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1954 film, Sansho The Bailiff, starring Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyoko Kagawa, and Eitaro Shindo. This film is based on an ancient folktale about a family separated and sold into slavery in eleventh century Japan. Sansho the Bailiff holds the distinction of being perhaps the saddest story ever put to film. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching Sansho the Bailiff. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
This film, like several films by director Kenji Mizoguchi from this period, was widely praised in both Japan and the West for its smoothly flowing camera work. But these camera movements were, in fact, planned and blocked by his great cameraman, Kazuo Miyagawa, rather than by the director, who gave Miyagawa free rein in his use of the camera.
Demand Euphoria!
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