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Mel Brooks: 5 essential films

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By Mike Sutton Lists, Adam Nayman Verified, David Parkinson Verified, Mike Sutton
| BFI
The Producers (1967) Mel Brooks’s first feature film has become the stuff of legend, spawning not only a successful Broadway musical – which itself became a film – but also an entire season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. It’s basically a theatrical in-joke – two Broadway impresarios put on the worst musical ever produced in order to hoodwink the shareholder but are surprised to find that their sure-fire flop becomes a hit.
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10 great Canadian debut features

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By Adam Nayman Verified, David Parkinson Verified, Sophia Satchell-Baeza
| BFI
Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron has emerged as an unlikely but worthy critical darling. Swathed in international festival laurels, it’s the most auspicious Canadian feature debut in years. The film is a family portrait made up of stolen glances and overheard conversations, mediated by analogue cameras, camcorders and iPhones and filtered through the director’s own memories of growing up in British Columbia in the early 2000s.
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A history of 1960s British cinema in 10 songs

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By David Parkinson Verified, Sophia Satchell-Baeza, Katherine McLaughlin
| BFI
When the talkies hit Hollywood 99 years ago, it seemed as though every picture contained a song in order to exploit the new technology. The same was also true in the case of British cinema in the 1960s, as producers sought to cash in on the beat boom by shoehorning groups into their films or commissioning chart-friendly tunes to play over montages or credit sequences.
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