Maybe it's the state of affairs all around us, but I've been in a particularly sensitive mood these days...for so many days, it seems. Almost anything can make me bust out in tears - usually something beautiful; a song, a moment from a film, a memory. And when it comes to comedy, I simply can no lon read more
The Producers
Directed by Mel Brooks
Written by Mel Brooks
1967/US
Crossbow Productions/Springtime Productions/U-M Productions
Repeat viewing/Amazon Instant
One of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Like his later films, Mel Brooks’s film debut is totally over-the-top – and v read more
This is my entry in the Classic Movie Blog Association's Outlaws Blogathon. Click here for more outrageous cinematic lawbreakers.
Zero + Gene = Love
They're adorable, they're hysterical, they're lovable. They're desperate con men and deliberate thieves. They're Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom and t read more
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Bottom Line: Even as a first-time director Mel Brooks is brilliant. A fine “production”. [singing] “Springtime / for Hitler / and Germany!” –musical ensemble Directed by: Mel Brooks
Starring: Dick Shawn, Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel Cheerfully dark satire about a theatri read more
This is my entry in the Classic Movie Blog Association's Comedy Blogathon. Please click here to see the entire gleefully, hysterically, deliriously funny line-up.
Great drama, action, and romance are fine, but there is no greater gift to the world than the pure joy of a good laugh that com read more
