Amadeus (2-Disc Blu-ray with Bonus CD) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 10, 2009
- Originally Released: 1984
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tom Hulce & F. Murray Abraham | |
Performer: | Elizabeth Berridge, Jeffrey Jones, Karl-Heinz Teuber, Simon Callow & Vincent Schiavelli | |
Directed by | Milos Forman | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Shaffer | |
Composition by | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | |
Produced by | Saul Zaentz | |
Director of Photography: | Miroslav Ondricek | |
Executive Production by | Michael Hausman & Bertil Ohlsson |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1984 -
Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham
Academy Awards 1984 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Peter Shaffer
Academy Awards 1984 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1984 -
Best Costume Design: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1984 -
Best Director: Milos Forman
Academy Awards 1984 -
Best Makeup: Dick Smith
Academy Awards 1984 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1984 -
Best Sound: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 10/10 --
Amadeus is a movie masterpiece: engaging, beautifully performed and staged, and packed with emotional power.
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Fiction Machine
...An unexpected and strangely moving spectacle...
Sight and Sound
A grand movie entertainment.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: A+ --
Amadeus (1984) was director Milos Forman's stunning, opulent fictional biography of musical prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the Tony-winning Broadway play...
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AMC Filmsite
A class act.
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Rating: 10/10 --
One of the best American films of the 1980s.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: 4/4 --
The performance of Abraham, who won the Best Actor Oscar for it, is monumental, and so is Forman's direction.
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New York Daily News
Product Description:
In a lavish 18th century parlor in Austria, an elderly man is found, by his servant, with his throat slashed. The wound is self-inflicted, and the man is the little-known composer Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), contemporary and adversary of the now-famed, but once reviled, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce). Later, from his cell in an insane asylum, Salieri tells a priest (Herman Meckler) the story of his association with Mozart, confessing that he actually killed the brilliantly gifted but troubled young man. Based on the award-winning play by Peter Shaffer, Milos Forman's riveting, brilliant, Oscar-winning AMADEUS is a fictionalized account of the real-life mysterious death of Mozart. Abraham, in the role that won him the Best Actor Oscar, is the celebrated court composer to Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones)--his confidence and religious dedication shaken when he meets the boorish 26-year-old Mozart as he chases his future wife (Elizabeth Berridge) around a party while making obscene remarks. Furious that this clownish boy can produce such beautiful music, Salieri determines to keep Mozart's talent from lasting recognition and sets himself on a course for Mozart's destruction that leads to his own as well. Mozart continues to mount beautiful, moving operas (incredibly staged in the film), but becomes obsessed with writing a Requiem as his friends, family, health, and resources waste away, Salieri's manipulating presence always there. It is hard to imagine anyone--whether they are knowledgeable about classical music or not--who would not be held captive by this superb feast for the eyes and ears, a film whose excellence can be felt in every detail.