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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (504)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Porky's Hired Hand starring Porky Pig , directed by Friz Freleng.
1608 N Alvarado is a reference to Warner Bros. animator Pete Alvarado.
Long time viewer know that the staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour love mash-up videos. They found this fanatic assemblage of 198 clips strung together to sing Gorillaz's Feel Good Inc. -
I know you woke up today not expected to see Doris Day and Humphrey Bogart singing this classic 2005 song
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 1994 crime thriller, The Last seduction, directed by John Dahl and starring Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, and Bill Pullman.
The Last Seduction has gained a cult following over time, and its main character, Bridget Gregory, has been recognized as one of the most iconic femme fatales. Linda Fiorentino's performance garnered acclaim and generated talk of an Academy Award nomination, but she was deemed ineligible because the film was broadcast in July 1994 on HBO before its theatrical release on October 26. October Films and ITC Entertainment sued the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences but were unable to make Fiorentino eligible for a nomination.
According to an interview with screenwriter Steve Barancik, executives thought the would be a typical "Skin-e-max" movie popular on premium cable channels. One executive was upset when he viewed a scene in which Linda Fiorentino wore only a pair of suspenders instead of being completely topless. When viewing the dailies of the scene, the executive asked, "Are we making an art movie?!" He demanded that the scene be cut and made the principal cast and crew pledge that they had no "artistic pretensions."
Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this sexy thriller: The Last Seduction.
Peter Berg recalled the chain-link-fence sex scene with Linda Fiorentino: "What I remember most about it was we were shooting it at the end of the night. We never got a chance to talk about how we were going to do it. By the time we got outside to shoot, it was like 5 in the morning and the sun was coming up. We had no plan and I didn't want to do something that looked embarrassing or stupid. I didn't want to appear to be just this designated sex-toy without some plan. I was suggesting that we maybe come back another day to shoot. John Dahl was upset because he knew he didn't have the time to come back, and I was being all nervous, and Linda was just smoking a cigarette, watching. After about ten minutes of me rambling on, she threw down the cigarette, looked at me, told me to shut the fuck up, take my pants down, and get up against the fence. She said, 'John, get a camera,' and she climbed up on me against that fence and told John Dahl to shoot it, and that was the scene. She thought of it, she conceived it, she executed it. It was awesome."
Si per infernum pergis, perge!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Porky's Hired Hand starring Porky Pig , directed by Friz Freleng.
1608 N Alvarado is a reference to Warner Bros. animator Pete Alvarado.
Long time viewer know that the staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour love mash-up videos. They found this fanatic assemblage of 198 clips strung together to sing Gorillaz's Feel Good Inc. -
I know you woke up today not expected to see Doris Day and Humphrey Bogart singing this classic 2005 song
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 1994 crime thriller, The Last seduction, directed by John Dahl and starring Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, and Bill Pullman.
The Last Seduction has gained a cult following over time, and its main character, Bridget Gregory, has been recognized as one of the most iconic femme fatales. Linda Fiorentino's performance garnered acclaim and generated talk of an Academy Award nomination, but she was deemed ineligible because the film was broadcast in July 1994 on HBO before its theatrical release on October 26. October Films and ITC Entertainment sued the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences but were unable to make Fiorentino eligible for a nomination.
According to an interview with screenwriter Steve Barancik, executives thought the would be a typical "Skin-e-max" movie popular on premium cable channels. One executive was upset when he viewed a scene in which Linda Fiorentino wore only a pair of suspenders instead of being completely topless. When viewing the dailies of the scene, the executive asked, "Are we making an art movie?!" He demanded that the scene be cut and made the principal cast and crew pledge that they had no "artistic pretensions."
Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this sexy thriller: The Last Seduction.
Peter Berg recalled the chain-link-fence sex scene with Linda Fiorentino: "What I remember most about it was we were shooting it at the end of the night. We never got a chance to talk about how we were going to do it. By the time we got outside to shoot, it was like 5 in the morning and the sun was coming up. We had no plan and I didn't want to do something that looked embarrassing or stupid. I didn't want to appear to be just this designated sex-toy without some plan. I was suggesting that we maybe come back another day to shoot. John Dahl was upset because he knew he didn't have the time to come back, and I was being all nervous, and Linda was just smoking a cigarette, watching. After about ten minutes of me rambling on, she threw down the cigarette, looked at me, told me to shut the fuck up, take my pants down, and get up against the fence. She said, 'John, get a camera,' and she climbed up on me against that fence and told John Dahl to shoot it, and that was the scene. She thought of it, she conceived it, she executed it. It was awesome."
Si per infernum pergis, perge!
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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (504)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 The Sour Puss starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.
This is the first appearance of the gag where a character commits suicide with gunfire after seeing something weird and unusual which he/she could not comprehend and saying "Now I've seen everything!" in response to it.
The staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have finally gotten back to work, (although we are running a tad late today.) Trawling through the intraweb, we found this beautiful rendition of the Stephen Sondheim classic, Losing My Mind -
Tim Curry's performance of this was unknown to us but it is a wonderful tribute to his massive talent
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 1993 bio pix, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, directed by François Girard, and starring Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, and Katya Ladan.
The structure of the film is based on the structure of the piece that Glenn Gould is most famous for playing, Johann Sebastian Bach's "Goldberg Variations", which are 32 short pieces of music that are usually played together.
Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was not just another concert pianist. Among other things he was a child prodigy with a successful adult career who stopped giving public concerts in his early 30s (he continued to make recordings), attracted a cult fandom, was best-known for performing music from the Baroque period and earlier (before modern pianos existed), also performed serial music by composers like Schoenberg and Berg.
Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this amazing film: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould .
The film is an ingenious deconstruction of the bio-pic, primarily through its unique approach to anthology storytelling and genre. By acknowledging the difficulties in telling someone's life story, the film illustrates aspects of Gould's personality in a celebration of his complexities, rather than a rote summary of his achievements. This unorthodox approach is superficially fascinating, but it also respects the artistic legacy of one of the greatest classical pianists in modern history.
Si per infernum pergis, perge!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 The Sour Puss starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.
This is the first appearance of the gag where a character commits suicide with gunfire after seeing something weird and unusual which he/she could not comprehend and saying "Now I've seen everything!" in response to it.
The staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have finally gotten back to work, (although we are running a tad late today.) Trawling through the intraweb, we found this beautiful rendition of the Stephen Sondheim classic, Losing My Mind -
Tim Curry's performance of this was unknown to us but it is a wonderful tribute to his massive talent
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 1993 bio pix, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, directed by François Girard, and starring Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, and Katya Ladan.
The structure of the film is based on the structure of the piece that Glenn Gould is most famous for playing, Johann Sebastian Bach's "Goldberg Variations", which are 32 short pieces of music that are usually played together.
Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was not just another concert pianist. Among other things he was a child prodigy with a successful adult career who stopped giving public concerts in his early 30s (he continued to make recordings), attracted a cult fandom, was best-known for performing music from the Baroque period and earlier (before modern pianos existed), also performed serial music by composers like Schoenberg and Berg.
Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this amazing film: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould .
The film is an ingenious deconstruction of the bio-pic, primarily through its unique approach to anthology storytelling and genre. By acknowledging the difficulties in telling someone's life story, the film illustrates aspects of Gould's personality in a celebration of his complexities, rather than a rote summary of his achievements. This unorthodox approach is superficially fascinating, but it also respects the artistic legacy of one of the greatest classical pianists in modern history.
Si per infernum pergis, perge!
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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (503)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Prehistoric Porky starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.
The "magazine for cavemen" that Porky gets in the mail has a number of Warner Bros. employees' names on the cover (Cob Blampett = Director Bob Clampett, Mubby Tillar = Writer Melvin "Tubby" Millar, Tick Dhomas = Background Artist Richard H. "Dick" Thomas, Cohn Jarey = Animator John Carey, Reve Visto = Animator Vive Risto, Ray Blouse = Cameraman Ray Bloss, Tary M[cut off] = Ink and Paint Supervisor Mary Tebb), all of whom worked on this cartoon. Several others are also "honored:" Have Doffman = Dave Hoffman, Farren Woster = Warren Foster, Jorge Gordan = George Jordan. Cut off at the bottom of the list of names are the series titles "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies." And the illustration of a caveman on the cover looks suspiciously like producer Leon Schlesinger.br />
The staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has extended their vacation to include the Labor Day weekend, (I, myself, am in an undisclosed location.) Trawling through the intraweb, I found a link to this great re-interpretation of Life During Wartime. (Please check out the website I found it on - Nag on the Lake,)
It's truly disconcerting to see this song become reality
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 1993 drama, Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman, and the ensemble cast includes Matthew Modine, Julianne Moore, Fred Ward, Anne Archer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Downey Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Chris Penn, Jack Lemmon, Frances McDormand, Lori Singer, Andie MacDowell, Buck Henry, Lily Tomlin, Annie Ross, Huey Lewis, Lyle Lovett, and Tom Waits.
The film cast includes five Oscar winners: Jack Lemmon, Tim Robbins, Frances McDormand, Julianne Moore and Robert Downey Jr.; and seven Oscar nominees: Buck Henry, Bruce Davison, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Anne Archer, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Huey Lewis.
Music and how it reflects and affects people's lives is a running theme in this movie. Annie Ross' "I'm a Prisoner of Life" is particularly poignant; and is probably the main theme of the movie; an anthem to the cruelty and joy of life itself. (It's no mistake that she sings it again during the closing credits of the movie). To go along with this Altman hires many musicians to be in the cast; most notably jazz singer Annie Ross and her cello player daughter Lori Singer; both of whom are accomplished musicians in real life; just as their characters are. Singers Lyle Lovett, Huey Lewis and Tom Waits are also in the
Only Robert Altman could’ve made a three-hour film that seems to be a sweeping analysis of an entire population, and have it be such a charming and bubbly experience.
Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this amazing film: Short Cuts .
Robert Altman originally wanted Madeleine Stowe to play the controversial role ultimately played by Julianne Moore that called for the actress to play a long scene naked from the waist down exposing her pubic hair and rear. But Stowe refused saying she couldn't find a justification for the character being nude in the scene. it." Though Stowe did agree to play the part of Moore's character's sister who poses fully nude for a painting because she felt "it was essentially a comic scene, and I didn't feel exposed in the same way."
In an interview, Julianne Moore revealed that Robert Altman warned her that the role of Marian Wyman had a lengthy monologue while bottomless and that her shirt wouldn't cover anything below her waist, so both sides of her would be visible most of the time as she's walking around. The actress said she not only agreed to take the role on the spot but also told Altman that she had a bonus for him: "I really am a redhead."
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Prehistoric Porky starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.
The "magazine for cavemen" that Porky gets in the mail has a number of Warner Bros. employees' names on the cover (Cob Blampett = Director Bob Clampett, Mubby Tillar = Writer Melvin "Tubby" Millar, Tick Dhomas = Background Artist Richard H. "Dick" Thomas, Cohn Jarey = Animator John Carey, Reve Visto = Animator Vive Risto, Ray Blouse = Cameraman Ray Bloss, Tary M[cut off] = Ink and Paint Supervisor Mary Tebb), all of whom worked on this cartoon. Several others are also "honored:" Have Doffman = Dave Hoffman, Farren Woster = Warren Foster, Jorge Gordan = George Jordan. Cut off at the bottom of the list of names are the series titles "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies." And the illustration of a caveman on the cover looks suspiciously like producer Leon Schlesinger.br />
The staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has extended their vacation to include the Labor Day weekend, (I, myself, am in an undisclosed location.) Trawling through the intraweb, I found a link to this great re-interpretation of Life During Wartime. (Please check out the website I found it on - Nag on the Lake,)
It's truly disconcerting to see this song become reality
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 1993 drama, Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman, and the ensemble cast includes Matthew Modine, Julianne Moore, Fred Ward, Anne Archer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Downey Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Chris Penn, Jack Lemmon, Frances McDormand, Lori Singer, Andie MacDowell, Buck Henry, Lily Tomlin, Annie Ross, Huey Lewis, Lyle Lovett, and Tom Waits.
The film cast includes five Oscar winners: Jack Lemmon, Tim Robbins, Frances McDormand, Julianne Moore and Robert Downey Jr.; and seven Oscar nominees: Buck Henry, Bruce Davison, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Anne Archer, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Huey Lewis.
Music and how it reflects and affects people's lives is a running theme in this movie. Annie Ross' "I'm a Prisoner of Life" is particularly poignant; and is probably the main theme of the movie; an anthem to the cruelty and joy of life itself. (It's no mistake that she sings it again during the closing credits of the movie). To go along with this Altman hires many musicians to be in the cast; most notably jazz singer Annie Ross and her cello player daughter Lori Singer; both of whom are accomplished musicians in real life; just as their characters are. Singers Lyle Lovett, Huey Lewis and Tom Waits are also in the
Only Robert Altman could’ve made a three-hour film that seems to be a sweeping analysis of an entire population, and have it be such a charming and bubbly experience.
Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this amazing film: Short Cuts .
Robert Altman originally wanted Madeleine Stowe to play the controversial role ultimately played by Julianne Moore that called for the actress to play a long scene naked from the waist down exposing her pubic hair and rear. But Stowe refused saying she couldn't find a justification for the character being nude in the scene. it." Though Stowe did agree to play the part of Moore's character's sister who poses fully nude for a painting because she felt "it was essentially a comic scene, and I didn't feel exposed in the same way."
In an interview, Julianne Moore revealed that Robert Altman warned her that the role of Marian Wyman had a lengthy monologue while bottomless and that her shirt wouldn't cover anything below her waist, so both sides of her would be visible most of the time as she's walking around. The actress said she not only agreed to take the role on the spot but also told Altman that she had a bonus for him: "I really am a redhead."
Demand Euphoria!
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