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ONGOING SERIES OSCAR ® SUNDAYS EVERY SUNDAY | 7:30PM
42nd Street Sun, Apr 2 | 7:30pm | DGT
This ongoing series celebrates films that have been honored at the Academy Awards.
MARCH: MEL BROOKS Screen legend Mel Brooks will join us in person as the museum kicks-off this celebration of the writer-director-producer-actor’s trio of Oscar-nominated features, all of them among cinema’s greatest comedies. APRIL & MAY: WARNER BROS. CENTENNIAL Founded by Albert, Sam, Harry, and Jack Warner, Warner Bros. will celebrate its centennial on April 4, 2023 and throughout the year. Countless cinematic classics and Academy Awards later, the museum pays tribute to a few of WB’s most beloved and iconic Oscar-winning or nominated films. Programmed by Bernardo Rondeau. Notes by Robert Reneau.
earning Oscar nominations for the screenplay by Brooks and Gene Wilder and for its Sound. When Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Wilder), the grandson of the notorious scientist, returns to the family castle he finds himself continuing his ancestor’s work and creating a new monster (the endearing Peter Boyle). Filmed in authentic black-and- white with a haunting score by John Morris, Brooks’s film manages to be uproarious yet surprisingly touching, with Teri Garr and Madeline Kahn providing priceless support. DIRECTED BY: Mel Brooks. WRITTEN BY: Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks. WITH: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn. 1974. 106 min. USA. B&W. English. Rated PG. DCP.
MARCH: MEL BROOKS The Producers Sun, Mar 5 | 7:30pm | DGT
Mel Brooks’s debut as a feature writer-director is arguably one of his funniest films, earning Brooks an Original Screenplay Oscar and inspiring a record-breaking Broadway musical. Zero Mostel is Max Bialystock, a seedy impresario relying on the generosity of lonely older women to finance his creative endeavors, who schemes with meek accountant Leo Bloom (an Oscar-nominated Gene Wilder, hysterical in every sense) to make a fortune on a deliberate flop, the unforgettable stage play Springtime for Hitler . DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Mel Brooks. WITH: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars. 1968. 88 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG. 35mm.
Blazing Saddles Sun, Mar 26 | 7:30pm | DGT
A Black railroad laborer (Cleavon Little) becomes the sheriff of a Western town in the first of Mel Brooks’s parody films—still one of the best of the genre. Brooks satirizes racism in what is arguably his most taboo-breaking film, full of dialogue both unprintable and endlessly quotable. Blazing Saddles earned nominations for its Film Editing, the uproarious title song by Brooks and score composer John Morris, and Madeline Kahn’s
Young Frankenstein Sun, Mar 19 | 7:30pm | DGT
This loving homage to the Golden Age of Hollywood horror films is one of Mel Brooks’s most enduringly popular movies,
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