Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1937 Porky the Wrestler, directed by Tex Avery.
Mel Blanc is the voice of the "woo-hoo" noises. His first major appearance in a WB cartoon would not be until Picador Porky.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is starting to think about what are next thematic screenings will be once we watch all of the films listed in Steven Jay Schneider's excellent book, (not that we are close to the end. But as we draw closer to more recent films listed, the less likely we will find an embeddable versions of them.) We came upon this video and it seems like a good source for some films we can watch together.
The only quibble I have is that most of these films are far from forgotten.
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 1975 mystery drama Picnic at Hanging Rock, directed by Peter Weir, and starring Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray, and Jacki Weaver.. Picnic at Hanging Rock was both a commercial and critical success when it was first released. It was voted the best Australian movie of all time in a poll by the Victorian Centenary of Cinema Committee and the NFSA. The film displays both a remarkable sense of eerie foreboding and lush surrealist sensibility, which justifies it's masterpiece status. The film has been restored in 4K resolution this year. The restoration was supervised by Peter Weir himself. So just push away from the table, get ready to enjoy this feast for the eyes and join us in watching Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Even though both the movie and the book it was based on claim to be inspired by real events, the story is completely fictional. Author Joan Lindsay, who wrote the novel, enjoyed the hype that her publisher created by claiming that the story was true, so she as well never decisively confirmed or denied whether her story was based on or inspired by true events or not.
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