This screening will feature a newly struck print from the Academy Film Archive.
AMADEUS LAUGHING SERIES
“Monday Nights with Oscar” is a monthly series showcasing high-quality prints of films that have been nominated for or won Academy Awards. The film also received nominations for Actor in a Leading Role (Hulce), Cinematography (Miroslav Ondricek) and Film Editing (Nena Danevic, Michael Chandler). In addition to the Best Picture Oscar (Saul Zaentz, producer), Amadeus won seven other Academy Awards: Actor in a Leading Role (Abraham), Art Direction (von Brandenstein Set Decoration: Karel Cerny), Costume Design (Theodor Pistek), Directing (Forman), Make-Up (Paul LeBlanc, Dick Smith), Sound (Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Todd Boekelheide, Chris Newman) and Writing – Screenplay based on material from another medium (Shaffer). Less so, however, is Tom Hulce’s childlike Mozart, who displays none of the inner darkness the role required. Forman’s film adaptation from Peter Shaffer’s Tony Award-winning play is a feast for the eye, and even though I wouldn’t say it fully succeeds as an exploration of the divine within, it does offer a handful of excellent performances (Abraham, Elizabeth Berridge, Jeffrey Jones) and some of the drama is quite affecting. Shot on location in Prague, Amadeus revolves around a highly fictionalized version of the relationship between 18th-century composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce and Christine Ebersole, and production designer Patrizia von Brandenstein will take part in an onstage discussion. Following the screening, Forman, actors F. Milos Forman’s sumptuous 1984 Oscar-winning drama Amadeus will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Monday Nights with Oscar” series on July 16, at 7 p.m.