Live stream preview

Watch this video and more on The Criterion Channel

Watch this video and more on The Criterion Channel

Start your free trial

Already subscribed? Sign in

Amadeus

Newly Added • 2h 40m

Directed by Miloš Forman • 1984 • United States
Starring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge

Sumptuous, deliciously irreverent, and graced with immortal music, Miloš Forman’s marvelous adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s play returns in a new restoration. One of the great cultural events of the 1980s, this lavish saga of genius, rivalry, and treachery was not only a critical triumph but a box-office hit, garnering eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Director. From a nineteenth-century insane asylum, aged composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham, delectably diabolical) recalls the events of three decades earlier, when the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce, memorably giddy, giggling) first gains favor in the court of Austria’s Emperor Joseph II. Salieri rues the fact that his own music never rises above mediocrity, and he remains permanently incensed that God would bless so vulgar and obnoxious a young whippersnapper as Mozart with divine genius. Unable to match Mozart’s talent, Salieri devises a duplicitous scheme that will be the downfall of them both.

Up Next in Newly Added

  • Dancer in the Dark
    2:20:47
    Dancer in the Dark

    Dancer in the Dark

    Directed by Lars von Trier • 2000 • Denmark, France
    Starring Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse

    A heartbreaking performance from avant-pop icon Björk lights up this singular, emotionally wrenching musical from Lars von Trier, who made use of over a hundred handheld digital video cameras to br...

  • Collateral
    1:59:59
    Collateral

    Collateral

    Directed by Michael Mann • 2004 • United States
    Starring Jamie Foxx, Tom Cruise, Jada Pinkett Smith

    Michael Mann’s ever-stylish eye turns Los Angeles into a sleek neonoir night world in this precision-crafted thriller. Tom Cruise is icy-cool charismatic as Vincent, a silver-haired professional c...

  • A Fish Called Wanda
    1:48:08
    A Fish Called Wanda

    A Fish Called Wanda

    Directed by Charles Crichton • 1988 • United Kingdom, United States
    Starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline

    Screenwriter, costar, and “Monty Python” legend John Cleese revived the eccentric spirit of the classic British Ealing comedy (even enlisting a veteran of the studio, Charles C...

×