Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1936 Porky's Poultry Plant, directed by Frank Tashlin.
This is Frank Tashlin's first cartoon with Warner Bros. as a director. He had briefly been an animator with the studio in 1933 but left after a dispute with Leon Schlesinger over rights to a comic strip Tashlin had created. He would stay with the studio until 1938, departing to become a writer for Disney, but would return once more in 1942.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is wondering if this is CGP Grey's new obsession, besides flags:
Well, money does make the world go around
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 1974 drama The Mirror (AKA Zerkalo), directed by Andrey Tarkovsky, and starring Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Alla Demidova, Anatoly Solonitsyn, and Larisa Tarkovskaya. The Mirror is loosely autobiographical, unconventionally structured, and incorporates poems composed and read by the director’s father, Arseny Tarkovsky. It's plot seems straight forward enough - a dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation. The film's loose, non-linear structure, was initially received with mixed reviews by critics and viewers alike. In recent years, the film is considered a masterpiece of cinema and Tarkovsky's best. So push away from the table, get settled in and join us in watching The Mirror.
This film was very close to Andrey Tarkovsky's heart: "As I began work on Mirror I found myself reflecting more and more that if you are serious about your work, then a film is not the next item in your career, it is an action which will affect the whole of your life. For I had made up my mind that in this film, for the first time, I would use the means of cinema to talk of all that was most precious to me, and do so directly, without playing any kinds of tricks."
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