Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1966 A-Haunting We Will Go, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales) directed by Robert McKimson.
This is the last Looney Tunes short featuring Witch Hazel, as well as the last Looney Tunes short with June Foray's voice acting in the Golden Age of American Animation.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour saw a Monty Python special that we've never seen before:
If you have the time, look up the Python special day that the BBC did that covered this whole 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 1970 drame, Zabriskie Point, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, and starring Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, and Rod Taylor. The film was an overwhelming commercial failure, and was panned by most critics upon release. Zabriskie Point at last garnered some critical praise, mostly for the stark beauty of its cinematography and innovative use of music in the soundtrack. We must say this is one film that we're not really sure why it's on the list but all means you should watch it if you haven't seen it before. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Zabriskie Point.
Michelangelo Antonioni's assistant and casting director, Sally Dennison, first spotted Mark Frechette having an argument with a woman at a bus stop in Los Angeles. Frechette was not an actor but a carpenter at the time so when Dennison brought him to Antonioni's attention, she told him "He's twenty and he hates". Antonioni cast him on the spot.
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