Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1936 Shanghaied Shipmates, directed by Jack King.
The title refers to the act of "Shanghai"-ing someone who is kidnapped and forced into servitude usually on an ocean going vessel that is very difficult to escape from while in mid-ocean.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to watch another offering for the folks at Letters Live, this time, the ever amusing Stephen Fry, reads a letter complaining about a deplorable act that occurred at the BBC Prom:
Two takeaways from this: please don't moon the people at the concert. and if you do, have Stephen Fry tell us about it.
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 1973 comedy-drama Amacord, directed by Federico Fellini. Amarcord, a larger-than-life journey through Fellini's remembrances of his childhood town, was considered a success upon it's release. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Fellini has denied that the movie is autobiographical, but agreed that there are similarities with his own childhood. So push away from the table, get settled in, and join us in watching Amarcord.
The title is the phonetic translation of the words "Mi ricordo" (I remember) as spelled in the dialect of Rimini, the town in which the director Federico Fellini was born, and where the film is set. The correct spelling should be "A m'arcord".
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