ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (384)

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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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