Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1938 The Daffy Doc (co-starring Porky Pig,) directed by Bob Clampett.
(Sorry, this is a slightly edited version.) Both Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones grew to hate this short due to it using an iron lung for a gag prop, which they felt was in bad taste to those who suffered from polio.
It's graduation season again, before our feature presention,The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching a fun Commencement speech mash-up from NPR -
So remember, keep reaching for the stars and follow your dreams!
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is one of the most famous Polish films, the 1958 World War II drama Ashes and Diamonds (Popiól i Diament,) directed by Andrzej Wajda and starring Zbigniew Cybulski and Ewa Krzyzewska. Ashes and Diamonds is considered by film critics to be one of the great masterpieces of Polish cinema and arguably the finest Polish realist film. Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola have cited the film as one of their favourites. Because of the film's nihilistic tone, the Polish authorities were not keen on it being exhibited outside of the country. Until a low-level official had a print shipped out to the Venice Film Festival where it played to great acclaim. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this important film, Ashes and Diamonds. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
Citizen Kane - and Gregg Toland's cinematography in particular - was a huge influence on Andrzej Wajda at the time. Like Toland, the first thing the film's cinematographer Jerzy Wójcik did was convince production designer Roman Mann to include ceilings in all the sets.
Demand Euphoria!
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