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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (387)
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1965 Moby Duck , (co-starring Speedy Gonzales,) and directed by Robert McKimson.
This is the first Daffy and Speedy cartoon directed by Robert McKimson. From this cartoon onward, McKimson would direct the rest of the cartoons which feature Daffy Duck and/or Speedy Gonzales (save for only two Road Runner cartoons, Rushing Roulette and Sugar and Spies, and one Daffy/Porky cartoon, Corn on the Cop, which is instead directed by Irv Spector) throughout the DePatie-Freleng era, while the directing duties of the Road Runner shorts (except those two) were handed over to Rudy Larriva via Format Films.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has stumble upon a very interesting site - All Things Lost - and a very interesting documentary about the potentially never to be released live action/ animated film, Coyote vs ACME
As you know Wile E. Coyote is one of ACME's largest clients. We hope they can settle their suit amicably and this film will see the light of day.
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 classic 1969 drama, Kes, directed by Ken Loach, and starring David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, and Lynne Perrie. The film has become much admired in England, seen as a biting indictment of the British education system. In 2023, it was ranked seventh in the British Film Institute's Top Ten (British) The film was a word-of-mouth hit in Britain, eventually making a profit. However, it was a commercial flop in the US and was withdrawn after 2 days. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Kes.
The scene in the library where Billy is trying to borrow a book nearly had a different ending. As they were filming with hidden cameras, members of the public could walk into the library. One older lady heard Billy arguing with the librarian and told him to 'show some respect.' Billy naturally told her to bugger off and a further argument ensued, all improvised by David Bradley and which ended with him being hit with her umbrella. The cameraman kept filming but unfortunately the film had run out part way through so they weren't able to use it.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1965 Moby Duck , (co-starring Speedy Gonzales,) and directed by Robert McKimson.
This is the first Daffy and Speedy cartoon directed by Robert McKimson. From this cartoon onward, McKimson would direct the rest of the cartoons which feature Daffy Duck and/or Speedy Gonzales (save for only two Road Runner cartoons, Rushing Roulette and Sugar and Spies, and one Daffy/Porky cartoon, Corn on the Cop, which is instead directed by Irv Spector) throughout the DePatie-Freleng era, while the directing duties of the Road Runner shorts (except those two) were handed over to Rudy Larriva via Format Films.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has stumble upon a very interesting site - All Things Lost - and a very interesting documentary about the potentially never to be released live action/ animated film, Coyote vs ACME
As you know Wile E. Coyote is one of ACME's largest clients. We hope they can settle their suit amicably and this film will see the light of day.
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 classic 1969 drama, Kes, directed by Ken Loach, and starring David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, and Lynne Perrie. The film has become much admired in England, seen as a biting indictment of the British education system. In 2023, it was ranked seventh in the British Film Institute's Top Ten (British) The film was a word-of-mouth hit in Britain, eventually making a profit. However, it was a commercial flop in the US and was withdrawn after 2 days. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Kes.
The scene in the library where Billy is trying to borrow a book nearly had a different ending. As they were filming with hidden cameras, members of the public could walk into the library. One older lady heard Billy arguing with the librarian and told him to 'show some respect.' Billy naturally told her to bugger off and a further argument ensued, all improvised by David Bradley and which ended with him being hit with her umbrella. The cameraman kept filming but unfortunately the film had run out part way through so they weren't able to use it.
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Friday, June 21, 2024
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Balter -
— to dance gracelessly, without any particular art or skill, but perhaps with some enjoyment
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Sunday, June 16, 2024
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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (386)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1965 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House, (co-starring Speedy Gonzales, Granny, and Sylvester,) and planned by Friz Freleng and finished by Hawley Pratt.
The cartoon marked the first theatrical pairing of Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales, with Daffy serving as Speedy's new foe in the cartoons, it was also the only time where they paired together in a Friz Freleng cartoon.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has once again been checking out the very funny website, Letters Live, (where actors read actual letters from famous and not so famous people.) We stumbled upon this one, so lets watch it -
Peter Dinklage reading of Spalding Gray's essay becomes a love letter to New York City after the tragic destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.
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 classic 1969 Kung Fu movie, A Touch of Zen, (Hsia nu,) directed by King Hu, and starring Shih Chun, Hsu Feng, and Pai Ying. The film is considered on of King Hu's greatest work and the film is very influential throughout the genre.A Touch of Zen was the first Chinese film to win an award at Cannes, where it took home the Technical Grand Prize in 1975. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching A Touch of Zen.
Production of A Touch of Zen began in 1967 but was not completed until 1969. Against director King Hu’s wishes, producers demanded that the film be exhibited in two parts (in 1970 and 1971) in Taiwan, where it languished at the box office. The famous bamboo-forest fight climax of the first part was reprised at the beginning of the second. Without Hu, the producers then recut the film into a two-hour version and rereleased it to theaters, where it performed no better. In 1973, Hu regained control of the film and recut it according to his original intentions: as a single three-hour film. That version premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1965 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House, (co-starring Speedy Gonzales, Granny, and Sylvester,) and planned by Friz Freleng and finished by Hawley Pratt.
The cartoon marked the first theatrical pairing of Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales, with Daffy serving as Speedy's new foe in the cartoons, it was also the only time where they paired together in a Friz Freleng cartoon.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has once again been checking out the very funny website, Letters Live, (where actors read actual letters from famous and not so famous people.) We stumbled upon this one, so lets watch it -
Peter Dinklage reading of Spalding Gray's essay becomes a love letter to New York City after the tragic destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.
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 classic 1969 Kung Fu movie, A Touch of Zen, (Hsia nu,) directed by King Hu, and starring Shih Chun, Hsu Feng, and Pai Ying. The film is considered on of King Hu's greatest work and the film is very influential throughout the genre.A Touch of Zen was the first Chinese film to win an award at Cannes, where it took home the Technical Grand Prize in 1975. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching A Touch of Zen.
Production of A Touch of Zen began in 1967 but was not completed until 1969. Against director King Hu’s wishes, producers demanded that the film be exhibited in two parts (in 1970 and 1971) in Taiwan, where it languished at the box office. The famous bamboo-forest fight climax of the first part was reprised at the beginning of the second. Without Hu, the producers then recut the film into a two-hour version and rereleased it to theaters, where it performed no better. In 1973, Hu regained control of the film and recut it according to his original intentions: as a single three-hour film. That version premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975.
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Friday, June 14, 2024
Thursday, June 13, 2024
That what they want you to think it isn't true -
Bunkies, beware, your house could be infested with house hippos.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2024
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Monday, June 10, 2024
Nodus Tollens —
— The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore - that although you thought you were following the arc of the story, you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don’t understand, that don’t even seem to belong in the same genre.
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Sunday, June 9, 2024
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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (384)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1964 The Iceman Ducketh, (co-starring Bugs Bunny,) and planned by Chuck Jones and finished by Phil Monroe and Maurice Noble.
The cartoon marks the last Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon featuring Bugs and Daffy together until Box Office Bunny almost 27 years later in 1991.
The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been in a nostalgic mood. we've all been sharing our favorite childhood meals (again the staff has led a very weird life, so this made sense to us.) The website Mashed had a perfect video for us -
I guess most of us are old (we have meatloaf at least once a week.) Secondly, most of us here, have a very hyper-developed palate (I have eaten every dish mentioned in this video.)
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 1969 surrealistic poem, The Color of Pomegranates, (Sayat Nova,) directed by Sergei Parajanov, and starring Sofiko Chiaureli, and Vilen Galstyan. The film, which depicts the story of an eighteenth-century Armenian troubadour, is not biographical but a poem about the poet’s images. The film uses lots of symbolism and metaphor to depict 18th century Armenia and the poet’s journey. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching The Color of Pomegranates.
The film Sayat Nova had been censored, re-cut, renamed (The Color of Pomegranates) and banned; its 1969 behind-the-scenes documentary Paradjanov: The Color of Armenian Land by Mikhail Vartanov was suppressed and the footage reappeared 20 years later in Mikhail Vartanov's influential documentary Parajanov: The Last Spring, which demystified the unique film language of Sayat Nova. The film appeared on many lists of The Greatest Films of All Time (Sight and Sound, Cahiers du Cinema, Movieline, Time Out, etc). Mikhail Vartanov famously wrote: "Probably, besides the film language suggested by Griffith and Eisenstein, the world cinema has not discovered anything revolutionary new until (Sergei Parajanov's) Sayat Nova - The Color of Pomegranates." Michelangelo Antonioni later added that the film "astonishes with its perfection of beauty."
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The cartoon marks the last Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon featuring Bugs and Daffy together until Box Office Bunny almost 27 years later in 1991.
The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been in a nostalgic mood. we've all been sharing our favorite childhood meals (again the staff has led a very weird life, so this made sense to us.) The website Mashed had a perfect video for us -
I guess most of us are old (we have meatloaf at least once a week.) Secondly, most of us here, have a very hyper-developed palate (I have eaten every dish mentioned in this video.)
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 1969 surrealistic poem, The Color of Pomegranates, (Sayat Nova,) directed by Sergei Parajanov, and starring Sofiko Chiaureli, and Vilen Galstyan. The film, which depicts the story of an eighteenth-century Armenian troubadour, is not biographical but a poem about the poet’s images. The film uses lots of symbolism and metaphor to depict 18th century Armenia and the poet’s journey. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching The Color of Pomegranates.
The film Sayat Nova had been censored, re-cut, renamed (The Color of Pomegranates) and banned; its 1969 behind-the-scenes documentary Paradjanov: The Color of Armenian Land by Mikhail Vartanov was suppressed and the footage reappeared 20 years later in Mikhail Vartanov's influential documentary Parajanov: The Last Spring, which demystified the unique film language of Sayat Nova. The film appeared on many lists of The Greatest Films of All Time (Sight and Sound, Cahiers du Cinema, Movieline, Time Out, etc). Mikhail Vartanov famously wrote: "Probably, besides the film language suggested by Griffith and Eisenstein, the world cinema has not discovered anything revolutionary new until (Sergei Parajanov's) Sayat Nova - The Color of Pomegranates." Michelangelo Antonioni later added that the film "astonishes with its perfection of beauty."
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Friday, June 7, 2024
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Remember Bunkies -
Have your children learn traffic safety tips from a man in snug fitting tights.
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024
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Saturday, June 1, 2024
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (383)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1963 Aqua Duck, directed by Robert McKimson.
This was the final Daffy Duck cartoon directed by Robert McKimson in the classic era until the cartoon Moby Duck with Speedy Gonzales in the DePatie-Freleng era after Warner Bros. cartoons shut down in 1963. It was also the last solo appearance of Daffy Duck in the classic era until Suppressed Duck.
The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have had a busy week. We all accidental fell upon this vert funny supercut video about the word 'Welcome' by the folks at Burger Fiction that that made several years ago -
I guess I've never thought about how many times people say 'Welcome'.
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 1969 drama, Fellini Satyricon, directed by Federico Fellini, and starring Martin Potter, and Hiram Keller. The film was loosely based on Petronius' work Satyricon, written during the reign of Emperor Nero and set in Imperial Rome. Another movie had registered the title Satyricon first. Federico Fellini fought to use the title for his movie but lost the case. Subsequently the title was changed to Fellini - Satyricon. It’s, by design, an overwhelming film, and sometimes an exhausting one, but the melancholy and wariness keep it grounded. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Fellini Satyricon.
According to an episode of the NPR-WNYC radio program Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, future fitness guru Richard Simmons is in this film. An American student living in Rome in the late 1960's, he was cast as an obese nobleman in the banquet scene.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1963 Aqua Duck, directed by Robert McKimson.
This was the final Daffy Duck cartoon directed by Robert McKimson in the classic era until the cartoon Moby Duck with Speedy Gonzales in the DePatie-Freleng era after Warner Bros. cartoons shut down in 1963. It was also the last solo appearance of Daffy Duck in the classic era until Suppressed Duck.
The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have had a busy week. We all accidental fell upon this vert funny supercut video about the word 'Welcome' by the folks at Burger Fiction that that made several years ago -
I guess I've never thought about how many times people say 'Welcome'.
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 1969 drama, Fellini Satyricon, directed by Federico Fellini, and starring Martin Potter, and Hiram Keller. The film was loosely based on Petronius' work Satyricon, written during the reign of Emperor Nero and set in Imperial Rome. Another movie had registered the title Satyricon first. Federico Fellini fought to use the title for his movie but lost the case. Subsequently the title was changed to Fellini - Satyricon. It’s, by design, an overwhelming film, and sometimes an exhausting one, but the melancholy and wariness keep it grounded. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Fellini Satyricon.
According to an episode of the NPR-WNYC radio program Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, future fitness guru Richard Simmons is in this film. An American student living in Rome in the late 1960's, he was cast as an obese nobleman in the banquet scene.
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