NPR

50 years ago, 'Blazing Saddles' broke wind — and box office expectations

Fifty years ago, Mel Brooks released Blazing Saddles to gales of laughter and a mighty roar of flatulence jokes. Also to mixed reviews from harrumphing critics. Typical was Vincent Canby, whose New ...
CNN

Opinion: The right-wing misreading of ‘Blazing Saddles’ is so telling

“Blazing Saddles” is the kind of unreproducible film that doesn’t need a remake. But if it were remade, it almost certainly wouldn’t be the left who would object. Like most Brooks films, “Blazing ...
MassLive

Here’s where, when you can see ‘Blazing Saddles’ on the big screen again

Fifty years ago, actor and director Mel Brooks released what many consider to be one of the greatest films in American cinema, “Blazing Saddles,” a movie that highlighted the struggles of the American ...
The Boston Globe

The common clay of the new West: Blazing Saddles at 50

Excuse our film critic while he whips out an appreciation of Mel Brooks’s brilliant western parody starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. On Sept. 1, 2016, I attended a screening of the western ...