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. 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.
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"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". 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. 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. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce, "Amadeus" is in its own class. 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. is to be praised for giving audiences a chance to see this magnificent film in theaters before a no-doubt successful DVD/video release. 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. It's got more music, more drama, more of what made it a big winner with audiences and critics 18 years ago. 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. 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. But this time there's no CGI-created Mozart needed to fix little problems.
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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. In the tailwind of the 20th anniversary release of "E.T.
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