Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1956 A Star Is Bored, (co-starring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Yosemite Sam,) and directed by Friz Freleng.
The cartoon expands upon the rivalry depicted between Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in such films as Chuck Jones' Rabbit Fire, this time placing the action in a show-biz setting.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour wanted to post this since we've all seen it, but I've found it so disturbing, I keep saying no, until now -
So please direct all your complaints and feverish nightmares to the home office and not me.
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 1966 drama, Blow Up, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles. The Italian filmmaker’s first English-language feature, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London, creating this international sensation. Antonioni's film presents the central theme that the mere presence of an observer of a phenomenon always altered the reality of the event due to perception (similar to the theme of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window). Two later films were directly and strongly influenced by Blow-Up: Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation and Brian De Palma's Blow Out, but both substituted the photographic aspect with the theme of sound. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch Blow Up
As a way of bypassing Hollywood's Production Code, MGM created 'Premiere Productions'. This was a dummy company which had no agreement or affiliation with the Production Code and, therefore, did not have to adhere to its standards. MGM did not have to cut the full frontal nudity or other sexually explicit scenes and maintained all rights to the film. When the film opened to rave reviews and excellent box office, this defeat was considered the final blow for the Production Code's credibility and was replaced with a ratings system less than two years later. Because the film did not open with a studio logo, the version shown on Turner Classic Movies has a Warner Bros. logo at the start, it being the current owner of the film.
Demand Euphoria!
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