Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with a classic Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1954 My Little Duckaroo, (co-starring Porky Pig,) and directed by Chuck Jones.
This cartoon in many ways resembles the 1951 short directed by Chuck Jones entitled Drip-Along Daffy. In that animated piece, upon seeing a wanted poster with a reward of $10,000.00 for the dead or alive capture of Nasty Canasta, Daffy sets out alongside his companion Porky, and his trusty steed to retrieve the villain and collect on the money.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is very amused by my past life as a young man at a specialized school. My Art teacher is now a video blogger sharing classic Italian recipes. so, lets watch one -
Besides explaining why it was not unusual that Michelangelo's David had a small circumcised penis, she was totally into Queen and let us play their music during class.
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 1965 documentary The Battle of Algiers, (La Batalla de Argel), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Given what's going on in the world today, the film is seen by some as a textbook for 60s revolutionaries (but with a surprising even-handedness), The Battle of Algiers now feels like it's been ripped from today's headlines. The director, Gillo Pontecorvo worked as a foreign correspondent in Paris, as an assistant to Yves Allegret. Rather than get myself in trouble by commenting on the film, please just watch it with an open mind. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch The Battle of Algiers.
Director Gillo Pontecorvo and composer Ennio Morricone had regular disagreements over the movie's score. At one point, Pontecorvo had a melody stuck in his mind which he desperately wanted as a theme in the movie. He went to Morricone's apartment to play it for him, and hummed the tune all the way up to the top floor. Then Morricone asked him to wait with the tune, since he had conceived a melody of his own. To Pontecorvo's surprise, the tune was exactly the same as the one he had in mind, and he was delighted to find out that after all those months of struggling, they had finally found something, separate from each other, on which they could agree. It wasn't until months later at the Venice film festival that Morricone admitted that he had pulled a prank on him; he had already heard Pontecorvo humming the song while coming up the stairs, and decided to pretend he had come up with the same melody himself.
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