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Blazing Saddles

Sunday, December 29, 2019, 2 p.m., Dryden Theatre
Still from Blazing Saddles

Blazing Saddles (1974). Photofest.

(Mel Brooks, US 1974, 93 min., 35mm)

The Canon. Mel Brooks’s third feature, and his first box-office blockbuster, turns the western upside down and inside out. Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder star as our heroes and Harvey Korman is their nemesis, Hedy (er, Hedley) Lamarr. Along with their one-liners, toilet humor, and inside showbiz jokes, Brooks and his co-writers (including the late Richard Pryor) also play off all-kinds of cultural stereotypes. It’s hard to imagine a more transgressive, or funnier, movie being made today.

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Event Details

Dryden Theatre
$7 members
$10 nonmembers
$5 students with ID

About This Series

The Canon

There are certain films that transcend the medium. These are films that have become part of the fabric of our culture, known through images, quotes, music, and story by more than just the people who have seen them. To see these classic films the way they were meant to be, on archival 35mm, has become a rarity. Rochester audiences, however, are lucky enough to still experience cinema this way, here at the Dryden Theatre. Starting in October and throughout the fall, the Dryden will bring some of these beloved films out of the vault for the entire family to enjoy.

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