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	Amadeus (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amadeus is a 1984 film directed by Miloš Forman and based on the stage play Amadeus.
		Amadeus tells Mozart's story from the point of view of the court composer Antonio Salieri, who is presented as a caricature of jealous mediocrity.
		In the film, Shaffer employs an interlocutor (a young priest) for Salieri to achieve this same function, but the story is told from a more neutral, third-person perspective and there are more scenes without Salieri in them (especially in the Director's Cut).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amadeus_(film) (1736 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: Amadeus
		Not only is "Amadeus" one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all-time, it does something no other reissue has done in a while--it manages to remain the same, despite a few scene additions.
		The reissue is the director's cut, by that master of film Mr.
		Even if you think the film will be boring, listening to the music is well worth the 158 minutes running time, even more than that with the extended and added scenes.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/amadeus.html (326 words)

	Amadeus
		Before Amadeus, five of Peter Shaffer's plays had already been turned into films, but they were neither successful nor was Shaffer himself satisfied with the results.
		As Amadeus on stage was just as imaginative, impressive and 'uncinematic' as Shaffer's other plays, Forman struggled to convince the playwright of the need for "tearing the play apart and putting it together in a new form".
		In the film this important information is presented by showing the marriage of Mozart and Constanze directly, then in the following shot, we see Leopold Mozart reading his son's letter with the news of the marriage and crushing it violently.
	www.anglo-iren.de /amadeus/play7.htm (610 words)

	Review: Amadeus
		Amadeus is an achievement, and was deserving of every one of the eight Oscars it captured on that late March night in 1985.
		Amadeus is not intended to be a rigorously accurate depiction of the historical Mozart.
		Amadeus was filmed in Prague, because, in 1984, it was one of the few remaining cities in Europe that retained the flavor and architecture of the 18th century.
	www.patmedia.net /berardin/movies/a/amadeus.html (1792 words)

	Amadeus
		The film plays out like a Greek tragedy with dual tragic heroes: first Mozart, who is blessed with so much talent but no ability to manage a life, and later Salieri himself, who has been blessed with only enough talent to recognize the genius he so covets in someone else.
		The film is not actually intended to be a historically-accurate portrayal of Mozart's life, but in Shaffer's words, "a fantasy on themes in Mozart's life".
		The film's DVD presentation doesn't include any special documentaries, but there is a music-only track without the dialog, and a number of special on-screen commentaries about the film and about Mozart's life.
	www.greenmanreview.com /film/film_amadeus.html (1093 words)

	Amadeus: Director's Cut (1984)
		Historical films such as this all too often become deadly serious pseudo-documentaries that may inform us about the period but certainly do not entertain us.
		Amadeus appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		The film hasn’t aged a day, and it offers a lively and intriguing historical drama that brings its subjects to life with surprising energy.
	www.dvdmg.com /amadeusse.shtml (2533 words)

	Amadeus
		The film is marketed as a tale of murder, but there isn't enough evidence from even this speculative account to indict Antonio Salieri before any modern grand jury.
		The film is long, but it takes time to build characters and to know them well.
		It is sad that such a spectacular film, one worthy of Mozart himself, brought nothing much to its two leads in the seventeen years since its release.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /reviews/amadeus.htm (802 words)

	Flak Magazine: Review of Amadeus, 04-19-02
		But Amadeus may be his crowning achievement, because it brings so many of his themes together and, more importantly, gives them to us through the eyes of someone more like us than his iconoclast protagonists.
		Amadeus, written by Peter Shaffer from his own play, is told from the perspective of Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), the Habsburg court composer during Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's brief but ridiculously productive career and the man rumored to have facilitated, if not caused, the death of possibly the world's greatest musician.
		Mozart, at least as far as Amadeus is concerned, was an annoying, immature prankster, and at the film's end, when he is buried penniless in a potter's field, we feel sympathy for the wife and child he leaves behind, but not him.
	flakmag.com /film/amadeus.html (1065 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Amadeus: Director's Cut
		Though the film purports Mozart as not having any pupils, it is widely believed that his last student, Sussmayer, completed the work at the behest of Constanze, Mozart's wife.
		Amadeus is a rare gem in Hollywood, for it is a quality movie with a difficult subject that was still able to cross over and appeal to the general public.
		Seeing how fond I am of this film, I was surely tempted not to put anything in the rebuttal section, but I felt it would be a slight disservice as there are individuals who might not appreciate the delights of this film.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/amadeusdc.php (3684 words)

	Amadeus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amadeus is the title of a stage play written in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, loosely based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri.
		Amadeus was inspired by Mozart and Salieri, a short play by Aleksandr Pushkin (later adapted into an opera of the same name by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov), and was itself later adapted into the film Amadeus.
		In the film, Shaffer employs an interlocutor (a young priest) for Salieri to achieve this same function, but the film is told from a more neutral, third-person perspective and there are more scenes without Salieri in them (especially in the Director's Cut).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amadeus (1825 words)

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		The film spans the life of the protagonist, Antonio Salieri, who has desired, since a child, to be a great composer.
		Another element in Amadeus is the behavior of Mozart who is often portrayed as a childish and unworthy person to be bestowed with such overwhelming genius.
		One of Mozart's traits in Amadeus is that Mozart was unfaithful to Constanza (his affair with Caterina Cavalieri in the movie) and that he became an alcoholic as he became destitute.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/2915/amadeus.html (2170 words)

	Amadeus: Director's Cut (2002): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Amadeus reminds us that movies can be lyrical as well as vulgar, ambitious as well as playful, brilliant as well as down and dirty -- just like Amadeus himself.
		One of the finest qualities of Amadeus is that it reminds us of those rare occasions when an Oscar sweep is actually merited.
		The superbly edited original version of Amadeus used overlapping sound cues for a lively flow between scenes, and the new version breaks up some of that flow with lengthy, talky interludes.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/amadeus (1216 words)

	PETER SHAFFER'S AMADEUS: DIRECTOR'S CUT - TWO-DISC SPECIAL EDITION DVD
		Amadeus works because of Forman's gift for the seedy (and portraying asylums--he directed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, after all) and because of Abraham's deeply-felt performance.
		As good as Warner's DVD of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus: Director's Cut is, it's a wasted opportunity that the two-disc set doesn't utilize seamless branching technology to make simultaneously available the original theatrical version, which is already on DVD but in a decidedly inferior presentation interrupted by a side-break.
		Both renditions of Amadeus have their strengths, and it would be a shame for the one that received the Oscar for Best Picture to disappear into the ether.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/amadeusdc.htm (638 words)

	Amadeus (1984)
		The film took on a somewhat soft appearance during darker scenes, which caused significant parts of the movie to seem a bit murky.
		Overall, the image of Amadeus looked fairly good given the age of the release, and at times it seemed very positive.
		That last category just lists the prizes the film won, whereas each of the other sections offer some rudimentary but reasonably interesting information about the film.
	dvdmg.com /amadeus.shtml (1814 words)

	Amazon.com: Amadeus - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition): DVD: F. Murray Abraham,Tom Hulce,Elizabeth ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Amadeus creates peculiar and delightful contrasts between the impeccably re-created details of its lavish period setting and the jarring (but humorously refreshing and unstuffy) modern tone of its dialogue and performances--all of which serve to remind us that these were people before they became enshrined in historical and artistic legend.
		Amadeus fits the definition as much as Casablanca, Gone With the Wind, and many other films that are still watched and discussed to this day.
		When I first saw this film in 1984, I was incredibly moved by Mozart's story and his astounding music, and by the breathtaking scope of the film.
	www.amazon.com /Amadeus-Directors-Cut-Two-Disc-Special/dp/B00006DEFA (3163 words)

	Amadeus (1984) - Film Talk
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		Amadeus is told through the chracter of Antonio Salieri (Abraham), who attempts suicide and is placed in an asylum.
	www.film-talk.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=11206 (1024 words)

	DVD Review - Amadeus: Director's Cut - Special Edition
		It is a film that could have been made fifty years ago or today (albeit as an independent film, most likely.) The excellent attention to detail crafts some of the most gorgeous sets and costume to grace the screen, and not only do they look good, but they feel lived in.
		And of course, one can't mention the film with mentioning the score, which, as an adaptation of Mozart's music, is some of the best work you'll hear in a film score.
		Instead of forcing a two-and-a-half-hour movie onto a single layer, and thus losing image quality, many of these films were split on different sides of one disc, forcing the viewer to eject the disc and flip it over to continue watching the film.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews2/amadeusse.html (1343 words)

	Amadeus
		Amadeus is a joy to behold, lavish in execution both visually and aurally.
		Amadeus is a masterful combination of acting and storytelling, of sight and sound.
		In a film of grand gestures, some of the finest moments are very subtle.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/amadeus (929 words)

	Amadeus
		TEACHERS: A film can be an alternative educational experience and highlight points covered by the curriculum.
		"Amadeus" is a creative work about the jealousy, rage and cosmic betrayal felt by some talented and accomplished human beings who have not be graced with genius.
		for 270 films which can be used by teachers as lesson plans and by parents as study guides.
	www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/amadeus.html (382 words)

	Liquidtheater.Com: Amadeus
		Amadeus isn't a movie about Mozart, it is a movie about wraith.
		To Salieri, Amadeus is "a perverted obscene little man" that cuts Salieri's one prayer, to worship God through the beauty of music.
		Amadeus is one of the best movies of our time.
	liquidtheater.com /review_89.html (867 words)

	Amadeus, directing wish list
		In the early 1950s, Forman enrolled in the newly founded Film Institute at the University of Prague, where he worked with many of the major figures of the "Golden Age of Czech Cinema." It was there that he first began to form his unique visual style...
		Amadeus : A Play by Peter Shaffer by Peter Shaffer -- 0riginating at the National Theatre of Great Britain, Amadeus was the recipient of both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award.
		Amadeus is a must-have for classical music buffs, theatre lovers, and aficionados of historical fiction.
	shows.vtheatre.net /amadeus.html (863 words)

	Amadeus (1984) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		As the court composer of the Emperor of Austria, all Salieri desires are fame and recognition as a composer; it is all he had wanted his whole life.
		It is no wonder why Amadeus won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, with 5-Star performances by F. Murry Abraham as Antonio Salieri and Tom Hulce as Mozart.
		Amadeus is an emotionally charged and tragic piece, a story of the life of one of the world's most famous composers, as seen through the eyes of his worst enemy.
	www.imdb.com /Title?Amadeus+(1984) (435 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Amadeus / DVD-Video
		Amadeus triumphs as gripping human drama, sumptuous period epic, glorious celebration of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart--& as the winner of eight 1984 Academy Awards, including Best Picture (produced by Saul Zaentz), Actor (F. Murray Abraham), Director (Milos Forman) & Adapted Screenplay (peter Shaffer).
		Films that depict a genius with all his flaws has a leg up, it brings the exalted somewhat down to earth.
		The film focuses on the aged recollections of Antonio Salieri
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/movie.asp?movie_id=544 (394 words)

	Amadeus Movie -The 80s Rewind «
		So incredibly talented was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that nearly 300 years after his death the world still has questions pertaining to his life, his death, and most certainly his music.
		Amadeus is narrated by Antonio Salieri who (according to rumor) was both immensely enamored and insanely jealous of Mozart.
		Elizabeth Berridge, who played Amadeus' wife Constanze, also played the Senator's maid on the short-lived TV series "The Powers that Be", which was spun off from Cheers: the Senator's daughter, Maris, was married to Frasier Crane's brother Niles, who was secretly in love with Berridge's maid character.
	www.fast-rewind.com /amadeus.htm (1888 words)

	The Ultimate AMADEUS Website // The Main Menu
		This website's purpose is to contain anything and everything related to this breathtaking film, as well as the actors and characters portrayed within the production.
		This website is a unofficial, fan-based website and is not intended to infringe upon the rights of Warner Brothers, Inc., Milos Foreman, or any other associates with the film.
		All content on this website is copyrighted to their original owner(s) and may not be used elsewhere without prior permission.
	www.angelfire.com /film/theamadeus/main.html (130 words)

	Amadeus - DVD - Title A Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Then there is Amadeus, which doesn’t sit comfortably with either definition, but which can most readily be described as being historic fiction.
		Unlike other films taking major liberties with historical fact, Amadeus is most certainly one of the best movies I have ever seen and one that is just a pleasure to return to time and time again.
		Based on the stage play by Peter Shaffer, Amadeus deals with the confession of Antonio Salieri, one time court...
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /dvd-title-a/amadeus (229 words)

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