Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1937 Picador Porky, directed by Tex Avery.
Porky would bullfight again three years later in the 1940 cartoon The Timid Toreador.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to watch with you one of our favorite, yet scandalously underrated comics, Kathleen Madigan
Kathleen should be more famous than she currently is - she is one of the funniest comics working.
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 1977 sci-fi drama Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. Close Encounters was an immediate critical and financial success. The film is a remarkably cinematic achievement, with striking photography and deft screenwriting that balances wonder with terror. Spielberg had envisioned this project even before Jaws, initially imagining the lead as a middle-aged man. He wanted Jack Nicholson for the part, but Richard Dreyfuss - who had appeared in Jaws - campaigned for the role and ultimately won it, proving himself to be a major talent. So, just push away from the table, get ready to enjoy this cinematic classic, and join us in watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Spielberg drew inspiration from Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s book The UFO Experience (1972). Hynek himself served as a technical advisor on the film and even appears in a cameo during the climactic landing strip scene. The character played by François Truffaut is based on French UFO expert Jacques Vallée, who worked with Hynek.
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