Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melody cartoon, the 1965 Corn on the Cop, {co-starring Porky Pig and Granny) directed by Irv Spector.
This is the final official appearances of Porky Pig and Granny in the Golden Age of American Animation.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has always been a big fan of Patton Oswald and we found a clip of him critiquing Sci -Fi films. We found it entertaining, we hope you do as well:
While we didn't agree with all of his choices, we love the confidence of his convictions
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 1970 drama, Tristana, directed by Luis Buñuel, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, and Franco Nero. The film represents a return to film making in Spain for Buñuel aafter years of working abroad. The film was well received upon release and was nominated for an Academy Award. In many ways, Tristana is one of the more straightforward and accessible Bunuel films, but "straightforward Bunuel" is still pretty strange.... So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Tristana.
Luis Buñuel was a big fan of the works of Benito Pérez Galdós, the author of the novel which served as the source material for this film. However, Buñuel was quite critical of this particular Galdós novel, which shares the same name as this film. Buñuel found the novel to be kitschy, predictable, and among the author's worst works. Nonetheless, the director believed that it would make an excellent film translation, and worked to get the film produced for many years.
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