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Amadeus - The Director's Cut [Blu-ray] [1984] [Region Free]

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F. Murray Abraham (Actor), Tom Hulce (Actor), Milos Forman (Director) Rated: Parental Guidance Format: Blu-ray
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  • Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Christine Ebersole
  • Directors: Milos Forman
  • Producers: Saul Zaentz
  • Format: PAL, Anamorphic, Widescreen, Colour, Digital Sound
  • Language: German, Spanish, English, French
  • Subtitles: Italian
  • Region: All Regions (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.40:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 16 Feb. 2009
  • Run Time: 180 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (273 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001MUK7G4
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Gripping human drama. Sumptuous period epic. Glorious celebration of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This marvelous winner of eight Academy Awards(R) portrays the rivalry between the genius Mozart (Tom Hulce) and the jealous court composer (Best Actor Oscar(R) Winner F.Murray Abraham) who may have ruined Mozart's career and shortened his life.

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A note-perfect cinematic event whose immortality was assured from its opening night, Amadeus is an unlikely candidate for the director's-cut treatment. Like one of Mozart's operas, the multiple Oscar-winning theatrical version seemed perfectly formed from the outset--ideal casting, costumes, sets, cinematography, lighting, screenplay, music, music, music--so the reinstatement of an extra 20 minutes simply risks adding "too many notes." Yet though this extended cut can hardly be said to improve a picture that needed no improvement, it does at least flesh out a couple of small subplots and shed new light on certain key scenes. Here we learn why Constanze Mozart bears such ill will towards Salieri when she discovers him at her husband's deathbed, and we see deeper into the reasons why Mozart has no students. The structure of the picture is otherwise unaltered. --Mark Walker

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3.0 out of 5 starsAmazing film...Lazy Transfer
By hellodavey on 20 Feb. 2009
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
This film is definitely one of my favourites films. The fact it won 8 oscars underlines just how amazing the film is - the story,the acting, the editing and the music are extraordinary.

However I gave this 3 stars (and not 6!) simply because the video quality struck me as very lucklustre very quickly. I currently own the directors's cut DVD and to me the difference in quality throughout the film was only marginal. The majority of the transfer definitely showed a deeper range of colour and less signs of video compression. However it just isn't enough to warrant a release on blu ray. Indeed some scenes looked pretty much the same as my DVD, particularly the opening scene. And I'm in the group of people trying to persuade others how good blu ray is.

I mean if you look at how they have restored the Bond films from the 60s, this "upgrade" might well be seen as a rip off. I remember some of the scenes in Dr. No looked spectacular - as if they had been filmed yesterday with bitrates often above 30Mbps in visually rich scenes. Amadeus is certainly not short of visually rich scenes with all the costumes, palaces, salons and stages but nothing was made of it. The VC-1 transfer seemed to hover at around 15Mbps for the majority of the film sometimes climbing to the twenties (and rarely to 30) and sometimes dropping to 6Mbps.

So... if you own the film already on DVD, make sure you really love this film enough to buy it on blu ray. It is better quality - but with the smallest justifiable margin.

If you have not seen the film, buy it already - this film IS brilliant and this is still the best quailty in which you can view it.

EDIT: Some useful comments have been made below regarding the use of excessive Digital Noise Reduction. Plus the Audio Quality does deserve a mention - it is brilliant and is a better upgrade than that of the video quality.
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5.0 out of 5 starsSuperlative and Very Different
By taking a rest HALL OF FAME on 19 Oct. 2002
Format: DVD
"Amadeus", was a great success on stage prior to becoming a film that garnered 8 Academy Awards, together with dozens of other international honors. This director's cut version of the film not only adds 20 minutes to bring this exceptional film to 3 hours, it also has created a spectacular new digital transfer, and most interestingly a new film.
Many special editions and director's cut offerings are little more than the addition of scenes that were dumped prior to the film's original release, and rarely have any fundamental impact on the story that is told. Fully one third of all the chapters in this film have new footage, and the changes have a very real impact on the film. Most of the new exposition is about Salieri and it makes him a much darker character, this Salieri is much more than a jealous admirer of Mozart. This man makes demands of persons and actively intervenes much more in the professional destruction of Mozart in Vienna.
One of the film's mysteries for me was why Mozart's wife held such hatred for Salieri at the close of the film. This question is answered, and it again makes for a major change in how you will view Constanze. And of course more insight is given to Mozart as well. If you are a devotee of the original film you may have trouble warming to this version, you may even be well advised to avoid it. For once you see this film you will never be able to watch the shorter version and confine your thoughts to what they were prior to seeing the additional 20 minutes of film.
There is a second disc that includes extended interviews with Milos Forman, Peter Shaffer, and many of the main characters. An interesting aspect that is shared is that this entire film was shot behind the Iron Curtain of the USSR when it was still the nemesis of The United States.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsAlways a great movie and now even better!
By Peter H on 31 July 2009
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A morality play about how genius is God-given and all wanting and yearning in the world won't bring it to your own door.

Mozart may have been the biggest musical genius in the history of the world, but paradoxically he remained enigmatic, strange and quite possibly very common and vulgar. Not the "class act" that many would presume.

Given that so little is known about him (as is the case of most 18th Century figures outside of kings and queens) that virtually everything should be filed under fiction and hearsay - bar the music.

This film is not really about Mozart (read the synopsis) and is presented to me as non lover of classical music (although I love music), but is nevertheless is so well made and is so entertaining I was totally won over. The directors cut explains more - but makes the backside ache too much for one sitting, it should really have been represented as a three part mini-series (like the Godfather) rather than as an elongated film.

The blu-ray works in many key scenes (ballroom and street) - in others the image looks almost like upscaled DVD. The sound is wonderful (even through TV speakers) and the extras are entertaining if not absolutely essential.

This film is art - so if you think the whole world is Kill Bill and Die Hard stay well clear.
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3.0 out of 5 starsTheatrical Cut much better
By Alexandre on 30 July 2012
Format: DVD
(Some of this review is posted below in response to criticisms of the story itself.)

There are plenty of valid criticisms of this director's cut and the DVD issue. I find that the director's cut diminishes the film with the inclusion of scenes that do nothing to advance the plot or the flow of the story.

As for the story itself, for those of you whinging: "It's not historically accurate": it is NOT meant to be a biography of Mozart. It is an adaptation of an old play by Peter Schaffer, which in turn was an adaptation of Pushkin's novel "Mozart and Salieri," which itself was made into an opera by Rimsky-Korsakov. That Mozart was a legendary and enigmatic figure in the Age of Enlightenment meant that stories were told and written, and suppositions were made about his life, his activities and his death. It is true that a mysterious figure in black commissioned the Requiem, and hounded Mozart and his wife for it, but no one knows who this might have been. Legends make great stories, and we go to the movies to see them played out in film. This is entertainment, and it is enjoyable. If I want history, I look in books, not films (and, for those of you who are purists, do not even look to documentaries to find accurate history, for you will not find it there)!

What really makes Amadeus shine as a film are the wonderful period costumes, sets, attention to detail and atmosphere. Some of the acting is weak, particularly from Constanze, but the rest of the actors are well-cast and together make it a most enjoyable film, without the need for a director's cut.Read more ›
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