Amadeus

Year:	1984
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Costume Drama, Biography, Music
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	8.4 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	15 Have Seen, 1 Wishlist


Director	Miloš Forman
Selected Cast	F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri
	Tom Hulce as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
	Elizabeth Berridge as Constanze Mozart
	Jeffrey Jones as Emperor Joseph II
Producer	Saul Zaentz
Writer	Peter Shaffer

Notes

161 minutes

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

Amadeus - Warner Home Video - USA (1997)

DVD

Amadeus - Warner Home Video - USA (2002)

DVD

Amadeus - Creative Design - UK (1998)

VHS

Amadeus - Warner Home Video - Czech Republic (1998)

DVD

Amadeus - Warner Home Video - Italy (2000)

DVD

Amadeus - Warner Home Video - Hungary

DVD

Amadeus - Warner Home Video - Netherlands (2006)

VHS

Amadeus - Warner Home Video - UK (2000)

DVD

Amadeus - Warner Home Video - Netherlands (2002)

DVD

Amadeus - Lusomundo - Portugal (1999)

DVD Box Set

Best Of Warner Bros. 100 Film Collection - Warner Home Video - USA (2013)

Blu-ray

Best Of Warner Bros. 50 Film Collection - Warner Home Video - USA (2013)

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Comments and Reviews


Magic Marmalade 30th Jan 2024		Well this is a sticky one for physical media / home video... ...I found the original theatrical version on DVD the other week, and it's one of those: "Flip the disc" issues, where only a little over half the movie is on one side, with the remainder on the other side (1hr 38 on side one - 58 mins side two) - what a pain in the crack! ...And it gets worse: A more recent issue has the whole movie on one side, but from this point on, only the "Director's cut" is available this way, and even - form what I can find - the blu ray etc. are "director's cuts" editions. The director's cut, in my opinion, kills the dramatic impact of the movie, by disrupting the "flow" of the film, and only serves to make the film drag, spoiling all the, um... cinematic poetry of the experience. So it seems the only way to get the theatrical version of the movie all in one go (on one side of any media format) is to seek out the original VHS, which is now a goal I've set myself. (Sometimes, although you'd, on the whole, prefer the studio to butt out, and let the director give us the intended experience, I'm finding, ever more frequently, that actually, the studio / powers that be, are in the right to give the director a light metaphorical slap, when such requests are made, and say: "No! - you'll kill the thing!").



Magic Marmalade 1st Jul 2023		I think this the textbook example of that line from Liberty Valance: "When the legend becomes fact... print the legend" (More or less) ...In that the impact of this screenplay and movie has probably become the truth of the life and death of Mozart, and cast another historical figure: Composer: Salieri, in a very dim light indeed, to the extent the poor guy has been all but damned to hell, reputationally speaking. One thing has crossed my mind just recently, is how similar the parallels are between the recent movie: Whiplash, and this. (I wonder if this was an influence on it?)



jaimeeduardo 22nd Dec 2020

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