Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1942 To Duck .... or Not to Duck , (co-starring Elmer Fudd, in his first pairing with Daffy,) directed by Chuck Jones.
The duck referee is intended to be the same plump and jovial referee from Count Me Out. In Count Me Out, the referee was voiced by Tex Avery, while here the referee is voiced by Mel Blanc, since Avery had already left Warner Bros. for MGM at the time the latter cartoon was made.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME would like to watch with you a special weekend moment of Zen:
Spending any amount of time with Julia is always good for the soul.
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 the 1960 drama L'Avventura (The Adventure) directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, and Lea Massari. The film made a star of Monica Vitti, who plays Claudia, the missing woman’s friend. The film has always been seen as the flip side of Fellini's La Dolce Vita. Both directors were Italian, both depicted their characters in a fruitless search for sensual pleasure, both films ended at dawn with emptiness and soul-sickness. The film has always had strong mixed reactions - at its premiere at the Cannes festival, the audience booed, but it won the Jury Prize and became a box-office success all over the world. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this though provoking drama, L'Avventura. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
According to the screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet, many shots in the "continental" part of the film are taken from the point of view of an unseen character, as if Anna was following Sandro and Claudia to see what they would do. When asked, Antonioni told Robbe-Grillet that the "missing" scene (showing Anna's body recovered from the sea) was scripted and actually filmed but did not make it into the final cut, apparently for timing reasons.
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