Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1939 Jeepers Creepers starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.
This animated short was digitally colored by Warner Bros. in 1990.
The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour, would likes to give a special birthday shout out to an old codger, who's been around this planet of our and celebrated the planet's bio-diversity more than many of us have had a hot meal-
Happy 100th birthday David Attenborough
We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1989 comedy-drama Trust directed by Hal Hartley (in the second film of his Long Island trilogy,) and starring Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Merritt Nelson, Edie Falco, and John MacKay.
Trust has the stark, no-frills look of a small-budget, grimly serious independent production, which only serves to make its deadpan hilarity all the more jarring and amusing. Everyone speaks with a rapid-fire intensity, as though each character is determined to cram the most information, or the greatest threat, into a listener’s limited attention span.
Please find a comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this black comedy: Trust.
In an interview, Hal Hartley once explained that he made the movie on the spur of the moment because he wanted to work with Adrienne Shelly again immediately after making The Unbelievable Truth, so he had very little money and very little time. The movie was shot in 11 days. The reason he could do that, he said, was because so much of the direction was implied in the dialogue. The dialogue pretty much told the actors what to do.
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