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		List Price: $35.99		Label: Warner Home Video Salesrank: 789 Released: February 10, 2009
		Our Price: $13.99
		Used Price: $11.94
		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
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.

Description of Amadeus (Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray]:
The satirical sensibilities of writer Peter Shaffer and director Milos Forman (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) were ideally matched in this Oscar-winning movie adaptation of Shaffer's hit play about the rivalry between two composers in the court of Austrian Emperor Joseph II--official royal composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), and the younger but superior prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce). The conceit is absolutely delicious: Salieri secretly loathes Mozart's crude and bratty personality, but is astounded by the beauty of his music. That's the heart of Salieri's torment--although he's in a unique position to recognize and cultivate both Mozart's talent and career, he's also consumed with envy and insecurity in the face of such genius. That such magnificent music should come from such a vulgar little creature strikes Salieri as one of God's cruelest jokes, and it drives him insane. Amadeus creates peculiar and delightful contrasts between the impeccably re-created details of its lavish period setting and the jarring (but humorously refreshing and unstuffy) modern tone of its dialogue and performances--all of which serve to remind us that these were people before they became enshrined in historical and artistic legend. Jeffrey Jones, best-known as Ferris Bueller's principal, is particularly wonderful as the bumbling emperor (with the voice of a modern midlevel businessman). The film's eight Oscars include statuettes for Best Director Forman, Best Actor Abraham (Hulce was also nominated), Best Screenplay, and Best Picture. --Jim Emerson

Amadeus (Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Excellent Film, Excellent Product
2009-11-08 - Blu-ray book review:
The Film- The image quality is a little soft, but a vast improvement to the DVD version. The sound quality is excellent.
The hd presentation of "Amadeus" is very good considering its age, and if that isn't enough to buy this DVD the wealth of supplimentals makes this a no brainer!
The disc comes in a digibook with about forty pages of production notes and cast and crew info (unfortunately the hardback cover of my copy was slightly dented in transit). There is a digital copy compatible with Windows Media Player. I really don't see myself watching a 3 hour film on my zune, but you might. Also included is an hour long documentary on the making of the film, which is quite good. The extras that I have enjoyed the most are the audio commentary and CD. For $13 this package is a steal!

Great All Around
2009-10-26 - I won't recap the movie itself, there is already plenty of that around. If you don't know the story yet definitely check it out, if you do know the story and have seen it then that's not what you're reading this for.

This blu-ray set is outstanding in every way. The short book/blu-ray combo is a great way to combine a dvd and a great tangible extra as well as eliminate that unnecessary plastic DVD/BR case waste. The quality of, and material in the booklet is great. And the remastering of both the sound and of the video in this blu-ray is absolutely outstanding, you really get to see the quality and benefits of blu-ray with this disk.

BAIT AND SWITCH!!! THE FALCO SONG ISN'T IN THIS MOVIE!!
2009-09-26 - This is the most blatant example of false advertising I've ever seen. This video calls itself "Amadeus" and guess what?? The song "Amadeus" isn't in the movie. Not even over the end credits. Instead it's about this guy from Victorian Egypt who makes classical music and some other classical music guy who hates him. They all run around in these limp-wristed puffy shirts. DUMB! DUMB! DUMB! AND BORING TOO!! I can see why they called it "Amadeus". No one would see it unless they made people think the Falco song was in it. WHICH IT"S NOT!!! I'm going to sue Warner Home Video (or Ripoff Home Video) over this.

Nice Offering, book, cd sampler and blu ray
2009-09-11 -
This is a Warner Bros type phenomenon in a sense that they always seem to have these digipack releases, in this case Amadeus. Doesn't come in the usual blu ray plastic case, Another version will be released soon without these included items, this version includes a hardcover book with the first cover having the blu ray as soon as you open it , in the middle you have 36 pages of words and pictures about the movie and the end cover of the book has a 'special cd compilation' with 8 tracks on it done by Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-fields. The price isn't too bad either. Get it now before it gets deleted!

What's the point?
2009-09-09 - I don't get the point of making a fictionalised version of a real person's story. Either tell the real story or present the work as pure fiction. Why overwrite Mozart's life story with your own?

Mozart was a genius. In this movie, he was portrayed as a buffoon. It was irritating, served no purpose and detracted from the story. The story itself is only very loosely based on history. If you like fiction, this would be fine for you, but if you want to learn about Mozart, I would recommend reading the book Loving Mozart: A Past Life Memory of the Composer's Final Years.

I give this movie a 1, at least for the nice music and opera.