24 Hours MOZART - Film: Amadeus (Director's Cut)
Time
2023/2/12(Sun) 02:30-05:20
Duration is approximately 180 minutes.
Venue: Concert Hall 3F Lobby
USA|1984|DCP|Color|180min|English, Italian|Chinese Subtitles
Director|Milos FORMAN
Stars|F. Murray ABRAHAM, Tom HULCE, Simon CALLOW
©The Saul Zaentz Company
Introduction
Amadeus (The Director's Cut), is the 2002 Special Edition based on Sir Peter SHAFFER's London and Broadway stage hit. The film includes 20 additional minutes of drama, music and sound not in the 1984 release, and which were all added with the enthusiastic approval of Milos FORMAN, Sir Peter and Saul ZAENTZ. In 1985 the original theatrical release of Amadeus won 8 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham, Best Screenplay Adaptation for Peter SHAFFER, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Make-up and Best Sound.
Playwright Sir Peter SHAFFER, who adapted the screenplay of Amadeus from his long-running London and Broadway stage hit, calls Amadeus "a fantasia based on fact. It is not a biography of Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART, nor was it intended to be. In telling a story about MOZART and his arch-rival, the court composer Antonio SALIERI, I have not violated the specific nature of MOZART the man, and certainly not MOZART the composer. Above all, the film of Amadeus, much more than the play, is a celebration of MOZART's music."