“my favorite movie” this is simply my favorite movie, the blu ray looks incredible, directors cut footage is great.

music cd included. what more do you want, just buy it if you like mozart.

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Product Description

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.

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.

The director’s cut of Amadeus finally accords this masterful work the DVD treatment it deserves. The handsome anamorphic widescreen picture is accompanied by a choice of Dolby 5.1 or Dolby stereo sound options, and it’s all contained on one side of the disc. Director Milos Forman and writer Peter Shaffer provide a chatty though sporadic commentary, but they’re obviously still too mesmerized by the movie to do much more than offer the odd anecdote. The second disc contains an excellent new hour-long “making of” documentary, with contributions from Forman, Shaffer, Sir Neville Marriner, and all the main actors, taking in the scriptwriting, choice of music, casting, and problems involved in filming in Communist Czechoslovakia with half the crew and extras working for the Secret Police. –Mark Walker

Absolutely the best depiction
of Mozart and the era he lived in. The music is superb, the costumes, the acting, the settings are exceptionally well done. But most of all, the pace that carries the viewer through the emotions and keeps it up till the end is outstanding. It’s not at all often that one connects to a high level to the character’s lives. If I could own only one DVD, this would be the one….more info

Digital copy work only on non Mac computer!
Just be aware that the digital copy does not work on Mac computer (it should be illegal to advertise the product as having digital copy but not let the consumer know that it does not work on Mac, without opening the product packaging). Another similar product is DIe Hard 4 which also advertise as having digital copy but until you open the product you would not know that it does not work on Mac computers….more info

Embarrassing release
This disc features a grain filtered transfer with no 1080p detail whatsoever, instead you get smeary textures everytime something moves. Completely unacceptable for a film of this stature. WB, show some respect and release a decent and film-like version of this film on Blu Ray, not this video travesty….more info

Extra scenes are a bit racy, but great movie!
Love this movie. One scene was particularly revealing, so be careful when watching with children….more info