Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1947 A Pest in the House , (co-starring Elmer Fudd,) directed by Chuck Jones.
The film is notable for featuring a sort of "in-between" interpretation of Daffy. He is not necessarily the zany, impish interpretation used famously by Tex Avery and Bob Clampett, nor is he the greedy, self-preservationist version that Chuck Jones later popularized in the 1950s.
Before the start of our feature presentation, As you bunkies know, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and I love movies. If it wasn't for the fact that we all work for the ACME Corp, we would all be working for one of the many film preservation organization. So this news feature we saw last week struck us close to home -
The video reminded us about Martin Scorsese other life's passion besides directing, film restoration and preservation:
If you can, think about donating to Martin Scorsese's fine organization - The Film Foundation.
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 1962 finale of a trilogy which was preceded by L'Avventura and La Notte , L'Esclisse, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, and starring Alain Delon, and Monica Vitti. L' Eclisse was the most radical of the three films, which not only explored themes of the rise of the cold war and the threat of world nuclear annihilation, but it included one of the boldest and most experimental endings in all of cinematic history. Some U.S. exhibitors were in fact so troubled by the ending that they lopped off the entire seven minutes, perhaps the most powerful sequence all in Antonioni's work. The film the Special Jury Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. Despite their influence on later generations of filmmakers, the films of Antonioni seem out of vogue and neglected. But whether or not you enjoy his work or even find the film interesting, attention must be paid. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching L'Esclisse. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
To prep for the film, Michelangelo Antonioni traveled to Florence to film an actual solar eclipse. He said of this experience: "There was a silence different from all other silences, an ashen light, and then darkness - total stillness. I thought that during an eclipse even our feelings stop. Out of this came part of the idea for L'Eclisse."
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