Peter Shaffer's 'Amadeus' is back on general cinema release today - in Forman's original 'Directors Cut'. With an extra 20 minutes of added footage the film that blew me away as a kid did it again.
I sat like a stunned 10 year old in and was blown away all over again - I sat and laughed at Mozart's antic's, marvelled at the absolutely amazing music (especially the scene's of Mozart conducting his Operas), and gasped as he descends into an illness and madness forced upon him by Salieri.
This is cinema as it's meant to be - MASSIVE. Watching it again after nearly 15 years I saw how it's influenced today's cinema - most notably 'Moulin Rouge'. Weighing in at nearly 3 hours, and with the seriousness of the film it's certainly not for lightweights - the largly empty cinema (3 other people were in there I think) a testament to that fact. I think this is a sad indication of the current filmgoing public when the horribly terrible 'Reign of Fire' was showing to a nearly sold out audience at 1.30 on a Friday afternoon (the dragon's were nice tho).
This is a film that people NEED to see. It's about genius, it's about love, it's about hate, it's about tragedy. It'll make you laugh, gasp, and cry. It really is that good. If your into music the whole spectacle will make your jaw drop - if your not into music you should see the film at least 3 times until you are. It's definitely one of my top 10 all time faves.
I sat like a stunned 10 year old in and was blown away all over again - I sat and laughed at Mozart's antic's, marvelled at the absolutely amazing music (especially the scene's of Mozart conducting his Operas), and gasped as he descends into an illness and madness forced upon him by Salieri.
This is cinema as it's meant to be - MASSIVE. Watching it again after nearly 15 years I saw how it's influenced today's cinema - most notably 'Moulin Rouge'. Weighing in at nearly 3 hours, and with the seriousness of the film it's certainly not for lightweights - the largly empty cinema (3 other people were in there I think) a testament to that fact. I think this is a sad indication of the current filmgoing public when the horribly terrible 'Reign of Fire' was showing to a nearly sold out audience at 1.30 on a Friday afternoon (the dragon's were nice tho).
This is a film that people NEED to see. It's about genius, it's about love, it's about hate, it's about tragedy. It'll make you laugh, gasp, and cry. It really is that good. If your into music the whole spectacle will make your jaw drop - if your not into music you should see the film at least 3 times until you are. It's definitely one of my top 10 all time faves.