Milos Forman’s Amadeus is arriving on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray next month for the first time, and more details are here.
Just over 40 years since it first debuted, the terrific Amadeus is now enjoying a 4K restoration, as it heads to 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray for the first time. And it’s landing next month as well.
The winner of eight Oscars, including the big one, the movie stars Tom Hulce and F Murray Abraham, and it’s directed by the late Milos Forman. It’s the film that follows the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, played by Hulce, and his rivalry with Abraham’s Antonio Salieri.
Adapted from the play by Peter Schaffer – and he penned the screenplay himself – the resultant film comfortable stands the test of time. Mind you, you can check that out for yourself when the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray lands on 24th February.
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Just over 40 years since it first debuted, the terrific Amadeus is now enjoying a 4K restoration, as it heads to 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray for the first time. And it’s landing next month as well.
The winner of eight Oscars, including the big one, the movie stars Tom Hulce and F Murray Abraham, and it’s directed by the late Milos Forman. It’s the film that follows the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, played by Hulce, and his rivalry with Abraham’s Antonio Salieri.
Adapted from the play by Peter Schaffer – and he penned the screenplay himself – the resultant film comfortable stands the test of time. Mind you, you can check that out for yourself when the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray lands on 24th February.
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Amadeus Director's Cut
In the tailwind of the 20th anniversary release of "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial", "Amadeus" -- the best picture of 1984 and winner of eight Academy Awards overall -- is another standout 1980s movie to resurface in theaters (locally at Hollywood's restored Cinerama Dome) with a new look, added scenes and spruced-up sound. But this time there's no CGI-created Mozart needed to fix little problems.
Indeed, 20 minutes longer and boasting digitally remastered sound, "Amadeus Director's Cut" is akin to 1998's "The Last Emperor Original Director's Cut" in that the film is enriched overall by material filmed originally and edited out.
Without dramatically altering the experience or presenting new potential problems like with Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now Redux", and now exactly three hours, "Amadeus Director's Cut" is an absorbing recreation of the tragic life of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It's got more music, more drama, more of what made it a big winner with audiences and critics 18 years ago.
This limited theatrical release, supervised by director Milos Forman, producer Saul Zaentz and writer Peter Schaffer, is obviously not destined for the big payoff of the George Lucas and Steven Spielberg revivals of recent years. But Warner Bros. is to be praised for giving audiences a chance to see this magnificent film in theaters before a no-doubt successful DVD/video release.
A filmed-in-Czechoslovakia project that at once rivaled the opulence of Hollywood's gaudiest era -- the 1920s of Erich Von Stroheim -- and yet spoke passionately to contemporary audiences through the brilliant performances of F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce, "Amadeus" is in its own class. With longer segments of Mozart's works now included, one can appreciate and revel anew in the not-Oscar-anointed efforts of conductor and music supervisor Neville Marriner and Twyla Tharp's choreography and opera staging.
But as one leaves the theater perhaps even more devastated than the first time by the thrown-out-with-the-trash end of Mozart (Hulce) -- who in Shaffer's stage play and terrific screen adaptation is undermined and driven to an early grave by rival Viennese composer Antonio Salieri (Abraham) -- director Forman's expensive, not-catering-to-the-masses film seems so unique today. "Quills" recently mined the same territory, but the quiet, banal evil that silenced one of the late 18th century's unrivaled geniuses only achieves its full power with possibly the most cruel ending since the very different but devastatingly ironic "The Bridge on the River Kwai".
There's nothing like beginning with a suicide and ending in the madhouse to wake one up in this or any moviegoing season, but "Amadeus Director's Cut" -- including more of Elizabeth Berridge's adeptly nuanced performance opposite Hulce's tremendous characterization of the lead -- has many wondrous and dark things to reveal to current audiences and classic film aficionados.
Along with Oscar-winning art direction, costume design and makeup and memorable supporting players like Jeffrey Jones as Emperor Joseph II, Abraham's towering presence throughout is one of the great screen performances of the past two decades.
AMADEUS DIRECTOR'S CUT
Warner Bros.
The Saul Zaentz Co.
Director:Milos Forman
Original stageplay and screenplay by:Peter Shaffer
Producer:Saul Zaentz
Executive producers:Michael Hausman, Bertil Ohlsson
Director of photography:Miroslav Ondricek
Production designer:Patrizia Von Brandenstein
Editors:Nena Danevic, Michael Chandler
Costume designer:Theodor Pistek
Color/stereo
Cast:
Antonio Salieri:F. Murray Abraham
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Tom Hulce
Constanze Mozart:Elizabeth Berridge
Emanuel Schikaneder:Simon Callow
Leopold Mozart:Roy Dotrice
Emperor Joseph II:Jeffrey Jones
Running time -- 180 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Indeed, 20 minutes longer and boasting digitally remastered sound, "Amadeus Director's Cut" is akin to 1998's "The Last Emperor Original Director's Cut" in that the film is enriched overall by material filmed originally and edited out.
Without dramatically altering the experience or presenting new potential problems like with Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now Redux", and now exactly three hours, "Amadeus Director's Cut" is an absorbing recreation of the tragic life of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It's got more music, more drama, more of what made it a big winner with audiences and critics 18 years ago.
This limited theatrical release, supervised by director Milos Forman, producer Saul Zaentz and writer Peter Schaffer, is obviously not destined for the big payoff of the George Lucas and Steven Spielberg revivals of recent years. But Warner Bros. is to be praised for giving audiences a chance to see this magnificent film in theaters before a no-doubt successful DVD/video release.
A filmed-in-Czechoslovakia project that at once rivaled the opulence of Hollywood's gaudiest era -- the 1920s of Erich Von Stroheim -- and yet spoke passionately to contemporary audiences through the brilliant performances of F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce, "Amadeus" is in its own class. With longer segments of Mozart's works now included, one can appreciate and revel anew in the not-Oscar-anointed efforts of conductor and music supervisor Neville Marriner and Twyla Tharp's choreography and opera staging.
But as one leaves the theater perhaps even more devastated than the first time by the thrown-out-with-the-trash end of Mozart (Hulce) -- who in Shaffer's stage play and terrific screen adaptation is undermined and driven to an early grave by rival Viennese composer Antonio Salieri (Abraham) -- director Forman's expensive, not-catering-to-the-masses film seems so unique today. "Quills" recently mined the same territory, but the quiet, banal evil that silenced one of the late 18th century's unrivaled geniuses only achieves its full power with possibly the most cruel ending since the very different but devastatingly ironic "The Bridge on the River Kwai".
There's nothing like beginning with a suicide and ending in the madhouse to wake one up in this or any moviegoing season, but "Amadeus Director's Cut" -- including more of Elizabeth Berridge's adeptly nuanced performance opposite Hulce's tremendous characterization of the lead -- has many wondrous and dark things to reveal to current audiences and classic film aficionados.
Along with Oscar-winning art direction, costume design and makeup and memorable supporting players like Jeffrey Jones as Emperor Joseph II, Abraham's towering presence throughout is one of the great screen performances of the past two decades.
AMADEUS DIRECTOR'S CUT
Warner Bros.
The Saul Zaentz Co.
Director:Milos Forman
Original stageplay and screenplay by:Peter Shaffer
Producer:Saul Zaentz
Executive producers:Michael Hausman, Bertil Ohlsson
Director of photography:Miroslav Ondricek
Production designer:Patrizia Von Brandenstein
Editors:Nena Danevic, Michael Chandler
Costume designer:Theodor Pistek
Color/stereo
Cast:
Antonio Salieri:F. Murray Abraham
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Tom Hulce
Constanze Mozart:Elizabeth Berridge
Emanuel Schikaneder:Simon Callow
Leopold Mozart:Roy Dotrice
Emperor Joseph II:Jeffrey Jones
Running time -- 180 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 4/5/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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