#Elizabeth Berridge and Tom Hulce

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Amadeus (1984) | dir. Miloš Forman

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Amadeus, 1984

The man, the music, the madness.

Amadeus is one of those films that leaves you in a profound, meditative state for a day or two. I don’t think I will ever be able to fully articulate the kind of impact it had on me or do proper justice to its review.

Miloš Forman’s widely celebrated masterpiece details the rivalry between composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. Every moment of this film deserves praise. It is not intended to be a biopic, as it’s based on the play Amadeus by Peter Shaffer, which in turn was inspired by the 1830 play Mozart and Salieri by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Shaffer even called it "a fantasia on the life of Mozart and Salieri." The play uses a rumor to explore the nature of providence and the tragedy of being consumed by envy.

Amadeus is a three-hour-long odyssey that seems to fly by, made all the more remarkable by the fact that the camera rarely moves. Forman has crafted a magnetic film, with soaring music (by Mozart, of course) placed immaculately, matched only by impeccable performances from Tom Hulce and Elizabeth Berridge, with F. Murray Abraham shining the brightest. The film serves as a cautionary tale and an incredible dialectic on envy, faith, power, and finding joy in life by not raging against things you cannot truly change.

Mozart's nickname, "Amadeus," in Latin means "God's beloved." This is the central theme of the film, as Salieri believes Mozart's music is so perfect that the only explanation is that Mozart is merely a vessel for God, who is truly composing the music, or that God bestowed this ultimate talent upon Mozart. Finally, the most incredible and mind-boggling thing about Mozart is that he was even better than what is portrayed in the film.

The film earned 11 Academy Award nominations, winning 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, Art Direction, Costume Design, Directing, Makeup, Sound, Shaffer’s Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham.

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'Amadeus' – the voice of God from a devilish imp on Criterion Channel

F. Murray Abraham won an Oscar playing court composer Antonio Salieri, a modest man turned into a monster when he’s confronted with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), a giggling, profane creature with the ability to create music worthy of the angels, in Amadeus (1984). Directed by Milos Foreman and written by Peter Schaffer, who reimagined his award-winning stage play for the screen, the film…

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TOM HULCE, ELIZABETH BERRIDGE & CHRISTINE EVERSOL in AMADEUS

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F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri

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[thatmarygirl93]

Elizabeth Berridge is so fucking beautiful 🥹💕

Constanze Mozart’s Outifts in Amadeus (1984) - for @fdhsgbkjd

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Year of Lists

June Films

Short but sweet:

Train to Busan (부산행) 2016 *7.5 - was surprised this didn’t come out earlier based on how much it has inspired subsequent work. Hell.Yeah. I love love love that it takes off so quickly and aggressively, infection rates are insane ——— attention: the zombies are not slow. This is a leaning forward, elevated heart rate watch through and through. Events unfolding are a constant surprise, not the gasp, I didn’t expect that kind, because this movie is so good at breadcrumbing for peak emotional destruction.

Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One 2023 *6 - meh, coulda been better. The AI stuff was interesting but I prefer my no way moments to come in stunt only form. The plot felt too farfetched to be believable but only because it wasn’t brewed well enough.

Amadeus (Director’s Cut) 1984 *8 - first watch, at my favourite cinema, the Prince Charles - and if I remember correctly this was screened on film. I don’t have much to say, it’s superb, a feat of storytelling.

Notable series mentions: Jujutsu Kaisen 2020 *9 and Normal People 2020 *8 - omg omg omg for both of these

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Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)

Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay, Kenneth McMillan, Richard Frank, Cynthia Nixon. Screenplay: Peter Shaffer, based on his play. Cinematography: Miroslav Ondricek. Production design: Patrizia von Brandenstein. Film editing: Michael Chandler, T.M. Christopher, Nena Danevic. Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; music editor: Mark Adler. 

Of all human phenomena, genius may be the most puzzling. What combination of heredity and environment produced a Shakespeare, a Leonardo, a Newton, a Mozart? For the Antonio Salieri of Peter Shaffer's play and the screenplay he based on it, the only answer has to be God. And his jealousy of Mozart leads him to a rejection of God and an attempt to destroy God's creation, whom he sees as a giggling, smutty-minded clown unworthy of the musical talent God has lavished on him. Amadeus is not a biopic; Shaffer called it a "fantasia" based on the lives and careers of Mozart and Salieri, and he plays fast and loose with the details of both. That has disturbed many who know the facts, but the sumptuous entertainment of the movie almost justifies the distortions and prevarications of the story it tells. That it's filled with Mozart's music is certainly most in its favor, and the performances of F. Murray Abraham as Salieri and Tom Hulce as Mozart add to it. Sometimes a beautiful lie is more satisfying than the truth. 

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top 5 movies!

😳 i wasn’t expecting anyone to actually ask asdfghjk, BUT THANK YOU ERIN — i’ve forgotten every movie i’ve ever seen….

1. Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) dir. Peter Webber

all time favorite, i love this movie with all my heart 😭 i love the pacing, setting, characters — when i watch a movie i will 100% be inserting myself into it and it is very easy to do with this movie

2. Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron

this movie and it’s two vhs tapes will forever be apart of my brain chemistry. it’s the only movie that i know every single line to and can perform as a one-woman show 

3. Barbie (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

hi barbie! <3

4. Amadeus (1984) dir. Milos Forman

listen to me; the costumes suck 😩 but tom hulce???? kiss me. i watched this movie as a romance hating teen and the way he and elizabeth berridge made me believe in love?? shut up

5. Cyrano (2021) dir. Joe Wright

TALK OF THE BLANK SPACE BEHIND THE SUN WHERE YOU TOLD ME YOU’D MEET ME WHEN EVERYONE’S GONE

[thatmarygirl93]

Honestly, same ❤️

I hate it when I come home after leaving my husband and I find Antonio Salieri is sleeping in my sons bed

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84 From '84: Amadeus

A The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart’s talent and claimed to have murdered him. Cast: F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri Tom Hulce as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Elizabeth Berridge as Constanze Mozart Roy Dotrice as Leopold Mozart Simon Callow as Emanuel Schikaneder Christine…