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 | As Jack Black and Michael Cera's Year One opens in theaters today, audiences are preparing to take a trip back in time to an era that is part history, part biblical legend, and hopefully all hilarious. But as any fan of Monty Python or Mel Brooks can tell you, this is certainly not the first time-period specific movie spoof to come around. (read more)
|  | (Cert 12A) Two of the most famous events in 20th-century science are the splitting of the atom by Ernest Rutherford & co in Cambridge in 1932 and the splitting of the infinitive by Gene Roddenberry & co in Hollywood in 1966. Both were working in a mood of optimism, in Roddenberry's case embodying in the TV series Star Trek the spirit engendered by John F Kennedy that carried on for a while after his death. JFK took his social programme of the New Frontier into space by declaring after entering the ... (read more)
| | Mel Brooks and Burt Reynolds remember actor and comedian Dom DeLuise, who has died in Los Angeles at the age of 75. (read more)
| | Mel Brooks and Burt Reynolds remember actor and comedian Dom DeLuise, who has died in Los Angeles at the age of 75. (read more)
|  | The French director talks to Nick Bradshaw about judging music video competitions, working with Bjork and resisting the temptations of the internet "I think I have to be honest," says Michel Gondry down the phone from New York. "I got paid a great amount of money to do it." The music-video wunderkind and director of the head-spinning fantasias Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , The Science of Sleep and Be Kind Rewind was recently retained, along with the musician David Ford, as judge of the ... (read more)
|  | In Rachel Getting Married, the new Jenny Lumet-scripted Jonathan Demme film, the gut-wrenching tensions of a family are thrown into strangely displaced relief when the father challenges his future son-in-law to a dishwasher-loading competition. It's a beautifully unpredictable movie, and the energy this bizarre scene generates is hard to describe, so it stands to reason that it has its origins in fact, not fiction. When she was 11 years old, Jenny Lumet's father Sidney, the director of such classics ... (read more)
|  | Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou, 2006) 9am & 6.15pm, Sky Movies Indie This sumptuous movie - part martial arts epic, part flower festival - looked like a dress rehearsal for the Zhang Yimou-designed Beijing Olympic ceremonials. It stars Chow Yun-Fat and Gong Li as emperor and empress in 10th-century China - he's trying to poison her in a tale of court skulduggery, awesome night-time battles and many, many chrysanthemums. Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004) 11.05pm, Film4 An engaging piece of ... (read more)
|  | A high-budget remake of a Sixties spy spoof, with Mel Brooks as a consultant, should have been a winner. Alas... (read more)
| | Get Smart is one of the more likeable spin offs - a funny, fast-moving update of the old, spy-spoofing TV series conceived by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry.
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| | Forty years on, Mel Brooks takes Damon Wise through the milestones in the making of his ludicrous 1968 musical comedy with its high-kicking Nazis (read more)
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