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Column: Nearing age 100, it’s springtime for Mel Brooks in new Judd Apatow documentary
The documentary features interviews with notable comedians and family, capturing Brooks’s legacy and nearly four hours of archival footage, now streaming on HBO Max.
- On Jan. 20, 2026, Mel Brooks attended the Los Angeles premiere of Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!, a two-episode, almost four hours documentary now streaming on HBO Max.
- Apatow says the film aims to celebrate Brooks’s career by tracing him from Brooklyn upbringing and WWII service to early TV work and moviemaking, with input from his family and collaborators.
- Brooks’s family and loved ones appear, notably his son and granddaughter, and the film recalls his marriage to Anne Bancroft, who died in 2005.
- Reviewers say the film enriches viewers’ appreciation by highlighting Brooks’s quick wit and memory, and note Apatow’s affection makes the nearly four-hour runtime forgivable.
- By showing peers’ testimony, the documentary positions Brooks as a generational influence, with David Lynch crediting him for saving his career and noting he had not had a hit since 1977.
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