Writer, director, producer and editor Robert Trachtenberg talks Mel Brooks: Make A Noise with American Masters.
Filmmaker Interview: Robert Trachtenberg, ‘Mel Brooks: Make A Noise’ writer, director, producer and editor
Features
Mel Brooks’ comedy is a resistance against the mundane
Clip | Bernadette Peters on Mel Brooks: “…he’ll get away with things because they were truly funny.”
Clip | Comic Legend Sid Caesar Discovers that Beethoven and Mozart are Dead!
Spaceballs: The Art of the Trope (or, making the cliché absurd)
Young Frankenstein: The Art of the Homage
Blazing Saddles: The Art of the Stereotype
Clip | The Difference Between Comedy & Tragedy Is…
Clip | Mel Brooks’ Debut
Clip | Do You Want To Know How ‘The Critic’ Came About?
Clip | The Insane & The Bizarre
Clip | Melon Balls Mean Money
Clip | Walking out on Hitler
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Clip | Rhinestones, Not Diamonds
Clip | The 2000 Year Old Man Revisited
Mel Brooks Biographical Timeline
Mel Brooks Biography
