OSCARS '82: My Favorite Year
“I HAD ONE LINE!!!…I forgot it…”
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of alcoholism, shame, abandonment.
This film is both incredibly highly regarded and somehow lost to time, because neither of us knew a single thing about this movie other than some Oscar trivia. But what was originally a Mel Brooks tale of his wild days at Your Show of Shows transforms into a tight, funny, and remarkably poignant movie about the perils of fame and the hard work of redemption. All in a 90 minute farce. It might not be the most memorable film, but it’s certainly an outstanding, underrated comedy with a strong emotional core, and it deserves some more attention. So we’ll give it some love today as Oscars '82 continues this week with My Favorite Year on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpts taken from the film My Favorite Year are © 1982 Warner Bros. Entertainment. All Rights Reserved.
Excerpt taken from the film History of the World, Part I is © 1981 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.
Excerpt taken from “An Actor’s Life (Main Title)” from the motion picture soundtrack to Tootsie. Composed and arranged by Dave Grusin. © 1982, 1983 Columbia Motion Pictures Industries, Inc.
