Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has added an exciting roster of screen legends and beloved titles to the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival, including appearances by Maureen O’Hara, Mel Brooks and Margaret O’Brien, plus a two-film tribute to Academy Award®-winner Richard Dreyfuss. Marking its fifth year, the TCM Classic Film Festival will take place April 10-13, 2014, in Hollywood. The gathering will coincide with TCM’s 20th anniversary as a leading authority in classic film.
O’Hara will present the world premiere restoration of John Ford’s Oscar®-winning Best Picture How Green Was My Valley (1941), while Brooks will appear at a screening of his western comedy Blazing Saddles (1974). O’Brien will be on-hand for Vincente Minnelli’s perennial musical favorite Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), starring Judy Garland. The tribute to Dreyfuss will consist of a double feature of two of his most popular roles: his Oscar®-winning performance...
O’Hara will present the world premiere restoration of John Ford’s Oscar®-winning Best Picture How Green Was My Valley (1941), while Brooks will appear at a screening of his western comedy Blazing Saddles (1974). O’Brien will be on-hand for Vincente Minnelli’s perennial musical favorite Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), starring Judy Garland. The tribute to Dreyfuss will consist of a double feature of two of his most popular roles: his Oscar®-winning performance...
- 2/5/2014
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Fund This Film: ‘RiffLife’ Celebrates Movie Riffing and the Legacy of ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000′
What is movie riffing? It’s the practice of talking back to a movie with witty remarks, usually to lampoon or criticize (and in a way, celebrate) something of low or cheap quality. The best way to define the term is to just present, as Exhibit A, Mystery Science Theater 3000. The long-running TV show, which began as a local Minneapolis program and went on to cult popularity on Comedy Central then the Sci-Fi Channel, popularized if not originated the concept of watching a bad film through the viewership of a couple of funny characters who make fun of that film. As MST3K writer/producer/director/voice of Tom Servo Kevin Murphy points out in his introduction to the book In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000, this sort of riffing goes all the way back at least to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, namely the scene in which the Athenians vocally ridicule...
- 2/1/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Martin Scorsese will present Mel Brooks with the American Film Institute’s 41st Life Achievement Award – America’s highest honor for a career in film. The private black tie gala will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on June 6 and will air on TNT Saturday, June 15, at 9 p.m. Et/Pt and as part of an all-night tribute to Brooks on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Sunday, July 24, at 8 p.m. Et. Brooks will be recognized for his range of mastery as a director, producer, writer, actor and composer.
Martin Scorsese is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time having received the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to cinema, two AFI Awards, an Academy®Award, a Palme d’Or, Grammy® Award, two Emmys®, four Golden Globes®, a BAFTA and three DGA Awards. Scorsese’s body of work includes films such as The Departed,...
Martin Scorsese is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time having received the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to cinema, two AFI Awards, an Academy®Award, a Palme d’Or, Grammy® Award, two Emmys®, four Golden Globes®, a BAFTA and three DGA Awards. Scorsese’s body of work includes films such as The Departed,...
- 5/20/2013
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The goodies just keep piling up—for gift-giving or adding to your own library. I was delighted to contribute an essay about Mel Brooks’ career to Shout! Factory’s multi-disc set The Incredible Mel Brooks, but there is so much material in this collection I still haven’t gotten through it all. That’s Ok with me because I can’t get enough of Brooks, and he ties the myriad video clips, documentaries, and retrospectives together in his inimitable fashion. The lengthy piece about his early career with Sid Caesar is worth the price of admission alone, but there’s much, much more, from an unsold TV pilot to his Oscar-winning animated short The Critic. Mel...
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- 12/18/2012
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Mel Brooks considers his new prestigious five-dvd box set to be the Mel Brooks of prestigious five-dvd box sets. During our hour-long conversation in advance of The Incredible Mel Brooks: An Irresistible Collection of Unhinged Comedy, he points out that Shout Factory, the label putting it out, are actually the Rhino Records guys. “They did Billie Holiday and Mel Torme and Ella Fitzgerald!” It’s obvious that Mel considers himself to be as funny as those people. And truth in advertising, the box set is pretty incredible: It contains classic interviews with Dick Cavett and Johnny Carson; weird one-off specials on the BBC like An Audience with Mel Brooks; documentaries such as Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man; the pilot for Get Smart; Mel’s bizarre 1963 Oscar-winning animated short The Critic; and even his guest turn on Mad About You. The whole thing kicks off with his “Hitler Rap” from 1983. “I think I invented rap,...
- 11/13/2012
- by Steve Marsh
- Vulture
“Asking a writer what he thinks of critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.” No one has portrayed that Ann Landers quote better (or more directly) than Mel Brooks in History of the World: Part 1 in the sketch where a caveman critic pisses all over a newly envisioned cave drawing. Not only is the relationship between creator and critic as old as man, it’s also always involved urination. On the most recent edition of the Scriptnotes podcast, screenwriters John August and Craig Mazin discuss the looming spectre that is The Critic – a terrifying boogeyman for some, a knock-kneed weakling to others, and a complete non-entity to more. “Well this isn’t going to endear me with many critics,” begins Mazin (who recently explained the depressing state of screenwriting as a career to Reject Radio listeners). “I don’t care. I do not care. I don’t write movies for critics; I write...
- 8/14/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a tribute to Mel Brooks on July 24 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Hosted by film historian Leonard Maltin, the evening will feature an appearance by Brooks, film clips and the participation of such friends and colleagues as Richard Benjamin, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Carl Reiner, Tracey Ullman and Lesley Ann Warren.
Brooks won an Oscar for the original story and screenplay for 1968's "The Producers." He also earned nominations for the adapted screenplay of "Young Frankenstein," with Gene Wilder, and for the lyrics to the title song from "Blazing Saddles." "The Critic," for which he provided the narration, won an Oscar for cartoon short subject in 1963.
Hosted by film historian Leonard Maltin, the evening will feature an appearance by Brooks, film clips and the participation of such friends and colleagues as Richard Benjamin, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Carl Reiner, Tracey Ullman and Lesley Ann Warren.
Brooks won an Oscar for the original story and screenplay for 1968's "The Producers." He also earned nominations for the adapted screenplay of "Young Frankenstein," with Gene Wilder, and for the lyrics to the title song from "Blazing Saddles." "The Critic," for which he provided the narration, won an Oscar for cartoon short subject in 1963.
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