Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1957 Show Biz Bugs, (co-starring Bugs Bunny,) and directed by Friz Freleng.
Show Biz Bugs portrays the modern interpretation of Daffy in a more sympathetic light: In this film, Daffy is a jealous and arrogant competitor to Bugs, but his shabby treatment by the theater management and audience is depicted as being unfairly out of proportion to the genuine talent he possesses.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour very tickled pink to watch two English men who don't quite know how to say no to doing a favor -
Don't worry, David and Martin are the best of friends.
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 1967 comedy, PlayTime, directed and starring Jacques Tati.. At the time, PlayTime was the most expensive film ever made in France and the film was a financial failure upon release but is now widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. The plot of the film is secondary; characters and dialogue are given a backseat as we instead watch social situations. In working with wide images, audiences become active participants and observers and can scan entire frames and focus on a certain part of the created image. In abandoning a conventional narrative, Jacques Tati provides us with a meditative experience. The audience, along with his camera, wanders around Paris throughout the course of a full day, encountering various situations and people. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch PlayTime
The elaborate set of Tativille had its own roads, electrical systems and - in one of the office buildings - a fully working elevator. To cut production cost cardboard cut-outs were used as extras in the background. To give them life some human extras would interact with the cut-outs.
Demand Euphoria!
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