Episode #439: 'The Testament of Ann Lee' with Emily St. James
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4.7 • 932 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're mine hanging bad. You're jamming my frequencies. |
| 0:05.0 | I may not always be right, but I never will. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to Maximum Film, Episode 439. I'm your host, Kevin Avery, and joining me as always. |
| 0:22.0 | He's a brilliant film critic and an author. And when he's not doing those things, he's here with us, it's Alonzo Duraldi. What's Good? Kevin, What's Good, is a two-part documentary currently on HBO now called Mel Brooks, the 99-year-old man. Oh, yes. co-edited,ited, co-directed rather by Judd Apatow who, uh, |
| 0:39.9 | interviews Mel Brooks on camera and cuts to a crazy treasure trove of talk show appearances and film |
| 0:48.1 | clips and all this other stuff for the last 50 years. So it's just one great, juicy Mel Brooks |
| 0:54.0 | anecdote after another. |
| 0:56.4 | The highs and the lows, you know, there was actually, there have been fallow periods of |
| 1:00.7 | his career, believe it or not. |
| 1:02.8 | But yeah, he's still with us and still has stories to tell. |
| 1:07.0 | And it's a really great celebration of a singular voice in American comedy and somebody who moved the needle in so many different ways. |
| 1:15.5 | So, yeah, I'm really loved watching it. |
| 1:19.0 | I hope more people check it out. |
| 1:20.5 | Mel Brooks, the 99-year-old man. |
| 1:22.8 | It sounds great, and I keep seeing it on my little TV sort of guide thing and |
| 1:29.3 | I have to watch it. |
| 1:31.5 | I'm very excited to see it. You are a slave |
| 1:33.4 | to the algorithm. I know. |
| 1:36.0 | As always. |
| 1:37.9 | Well, also joining us, she's |
| 1:39.3 | a producer and one of the top film festival |
| 1:41.2 | programmers in all the land but you can just |
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