Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1966 Swing Ding Amigo, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales) directed by Robert McKimson.
By the time of this short, Daffy was known for being a greedy loco duck rather than just a daffy loony character.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been watching a bunch of AI trailers of famous films -
Jar Jar Bing is even more upsetting. Not really sure I would have checked out this flix.
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 genre-twisting 1971 western, McCabe & Mrs. Miller , directed by Robert Altman, and starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, and William Devane. The film was met with very diverse critical reviews but over the years, McCabe & Mrs. Miller is now considered a classic, a great anti-Western, and is often found on greatest films lists . I don't want to spoil the film by saying to much. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching McCabe & Mrs. Miller.
During post-production on this film, Robert Altman was having a difficult time finding a proper musical score, until he attended a party where the album Songs of Leonard Cohen was playing and noticed that several songs from the album seemed to fit in with the overall mood and themes of the movie. Cohen, who had been a fan of Altman's previous film, Brewster McCloud, allowed him to use three songs from the album -The Stranger Song, Sisters of Mercy and Winter Lady - although Altman was dismayed when Cohen later admitted that he didn't like the movie. A year later, Altman received a phone call from Cohen, who told him that he changed his mind after re-watching the movie with an audience and now loved it.
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