Mel Brooks

‘The Elephant Man’: A Portrait of an Outcast Defeating His Fears and Deformities with Creativity, Wit and Compassion

  By Lovorko Marić   David Lynch, a name that is for many film enthusiasts the epitome for weird, surreal,…

7 years ago

‘Young Frankenstein’: Comedy Master Mel Brooks at the Peak of His Craft

The year 1974 was a rather big for then 48-year-old Mel Brooks. Seven years after his brilliant filmmaking debut with The…

9 years ago

‘Blazing Saddles’: The Career’s Highlight of a Man Without Whom the World of Comedy Would Be a Far Gloomier Place

Whenever we start talking about the genre of film parody, it's impossible not to think of the great Mel Brooks.…

9 years ago

‘The Producers’: An Unyieldingly Entertaining Satire that Launched Mel Brooks’ Career

The American 1968 dark comedy The Producers was written and directed by the one and only Mel Brooks, the absolute…

9 years ago