Session #402 - Blazing Saddles

Name: Session #402 - Blazing Saddles
Start: 2024-11-13T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-13T20:55:00-05:00
Location: Alamo Drafthouse DC Area (Ashburn)

Schedule

Wed Nov 13 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:55 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Alamo Drafthouse DC Area (Ashburn) | Ashburn, VA

Trailer:

Tickets: https://drafthouse.com/northern-virginia/event/film-club-blazing-saddles
MEL BROOKS' AUDACIOUS SATIRE OF THE OLD WEST
Decency forbids us from presenting some of the best quotes from Mel Brooks’ astonishing – and astonishingly timely – masterwork BLAZING SADDLES, but that’s ok because you already know how funny this savage and silly satire of white supremacy and its role in America’s history is.
Mel Brooks’ comedy spans the lowest to the highest in the course of this film, and there’s no joke he won’t mine mercilessly for the last little laugh. A testament to just how well surgical satire can undercut and expose the racist truths that lay under American history, BLAZING SADDLES allows us to confront our nation’s past while also laughing at it.