Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1958 Robin Hood Daffy , (co-starring Porky Pig) and directed by Chuck Jones.
This was the final Porky Pig short to be directed by Chuck Jones, as well as the last of Jones' Daffy and Porky parody shorts that began with the western-themed Drip-Along Daffy.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour staff has watched the greatest piece of editing executed and we want to share it with you -
This was so good, I think it can bring Freddie back.
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 charming french musical, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, (The Young Girls Of Rochefort), directed by Jacques Demy, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, George Chakiris, Michel Piccoli, and guest starring, Gene Kelly and Danielle Darrieux. At the time, The Young Girls Of Rochefort did well at the box office. The classic homage to the Hollywood musical is considered one of the greatest musical ever produced. The film displays the director's unique and ever-present combination of melancholy and euphoria, American commercialism and French provincialism, and the curious relationship between chance and fate. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch The Young Girls Of Rochefort.
Jacques Demy originally thought of casting Brigitte Bardot and Audrey Hepburn as the twin sisters. Françoise Dorléac, Catherine Deneuve's actual sister, was tragically killed in a car accident at age 25 just three months after the film's release in France and almost a year before it was released in the U.S.
Demand Euphoria!
No comments:
Post a Comment