Egyptian Theatre (Venue Partner)
6712 Hollywood Blvd
323.466.3456
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Film: Double Feature
Blazing Saddles and Silent Movie w/ Mel Brooks In Person
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BLAZING SADDLES Poster
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- When
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Sunday July 25, 2010 (7:30pm)
- Where
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Directions: The Egyptian Theatre is just east of Highland Avenue between Las Palmas Avenue and McCadden Place. Metro Stop: Hollywood & Highland
- Price
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$11
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“While the festivities of the Hollywood Walk of Fame 50th anniversary proceed outside, within the historic Egyptian Theatre, two of comic genius Mel Brooks' films of the 1970s will be screened. Blazing Saddles, the most brilliant and beloved of the two movies, is frequently characterized as racist, but is in fact a fiercely funny satire of racial prejudice. The charms of the underappreciated Silent Movie, about a director undertaking a silent film decades after Hollywood ceased producing them, are subtler than those of Blazing Saddles, but it's nonetheless a hilarious and original parody of the film business. Mel Brooks will participate in a Q and A between the films.”
Karin E. Baker, Flavorpill
Walk of Fame 50th Anniversary! Double Feature: BLAZING SADDLES, 1974, Warner Bros., 93 min. Director Mel Brooks’ third film as director took his politically-incorrect humor (with a screenplay co-written by Richard Pryor) to new levels of hilarity. A corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff to cause havoc in a Western town, but is surprised when the new lawman (Cleavon Little) becomes a force to be reckoned with. With Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn and Harvey Korman.
SILENT MOVIE, 1976, 20th Century Fox, 87 min. Director Mel Brooks plays a washed-up film director who sees a new silent film production as the way to save both his career and Hollywood, and he enlists the aid of pals Dom DeLuise and Marty Feldman. Discussion between films with Mel Brooks.
