Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1936 Porky's Moving Day, directed by Jack King.
This was Jack King's final cartoon before returning to Disney. He left with hopes that he would be able to direct cartoons in color, something Leon Schlesinger had only allowed Friz Freleng and Tex Avery to do for much of the decade.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour wants to watch with you, one of the most recent NPR Tiny Desk Concert
So remember, everybody gotta get a gimmick
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 A Woman Under the Influence), directed by John Cassavetes, and starring Gena Rowlands, and Peter Falk. A Woman Under the Influence opened to somewhat mixed reviews: some found the film breathtakingly raw and honest, others found the performances sometime veered into the melodramatic. The film is now considered one of Cassavates' masterpieces and Gena Rowlands' performance nothing less that brilliant. I will be honest - this is an intense film, possibly too difficult to get through. Even if yo have to take a break or two to get through watching the film, do yourself a favor and do it! So push away from the table, get settled in and join us in watching A Woman Under the Influence.
John Cassavetes could not find a distributor for the film after completion, and was at one point literally carrying the reels under his arm, from one theater to another, in hopes of getting one to play his movie. Finally, Martin Scorsese, who had recently become critically acclaimed following his film Mean Streets happened to be a huge fan of Cassavetes' work and threatened to pull his film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore from a major New York film festival unless they accepted this film.
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