Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For The Pop Culture That Made Us Who We Are
Displaying 2 items of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag "gene wilder".
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Young Frankenstein
October 12th, 2026 | 2 hrs 22 mins
1970s, 70s, Gene Wilder, Halloween, cloris leachman, comedy, entertainment, film, films, frankenstein, horror, madeline khan, marty feldman, mary shelley, mel brooks, movie, movies, parody, spoof, teri garr
We're puttin' on the ritz revisiting another of Mel Brooks' timeless comedies, "Young Frankenstein". This abby normal send-up of James Whale's "Frankenstein" and the Universal horror classics is a pitch-perfect masterclass, as Brooks, Gene Wilder, and the rest of the stellar cast put on a comedy clinic that, like the film's subject, achieved immortality. We're joined by comedian Tarik Davis (https://tarikdavis.com/) and film podcaster Sophia Ricciardi from Moviestruck (https://moviestruck.transistor.fm/) to celebrate Mel and Gene's giddy love letter to the black and white terror tales of the 1930s.
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Blazing Saddles
May 20th, 2024 | 2 hrs 9 mins
1970s, 70s, BLM, Black Lives Matter, Gene Wilder, Race, cleavon little, comedy, empathy, madeline kahn, mel brooks, racism, satire, spoof, tolerance, western
Mel Brooks' crowning achievement, Blazing Saddles blazed a trail and confronts racism with equal parts ferocious satire and wild cartoon abandon. Writer/comedian/filmmaker Tarik Davis (@tarikrdavis) joins us to celebrate 50 years of this film's uncompromising hilarity and empathy. We are awake, but we are very puzzled.