Tag: Amadeus
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Cillian Murphy’s Favorite Oppenheimer Scenes Were The Most Harrowing To Film
This post contains spoilers for “Oppenheimer.”Cillian Murphy wasn’t about to phone in his “Oppenheimer” performance. The actor had been waiting since 2005, when he played The Scarecrow/Dr. Jonathan Crane in Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins,” to take the lead in one of the director’s films. In the almost 20 years since that movie debuted, Murphy has…
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Chevalier review – entertainingly soapy portrait of a Black 18th-century maestro
Kelvin Harrison Jr commands the screen in Stephen Williams’s brashly anachronistic drama about the French composer, violin virtuoso and champion fencer Joseph BologneIn 1985, Miloš Forman’s screen adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s stage play Amadeus swept the Academy Awards, winning eight Oscars, including best picture. In that acclaimed film, F Murray Abraham’s Antonio Salieri seethed at…
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Elvis review – blistering, turbocharged chronicle of the King
With electrifying performances from Austin Butler as Elvis and Tom Hanks as Colonel Parker, Baz Luhrmann’s whirlwind biopic is cinematic dynamiteFrom an opening that cheekily evokes the dropped snow globe of Citizen Kane to an Unchained Melody finale that had me crying in the chapel, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is a turned-up-to-11 treat. This blistering pop…
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‘WandaVision’ Actress Kathryn Hahn Compares Agatha and Wanda to ‘Amadeus’
Emmy-nominated WandaVision actress Kathryn Hahn is speaking the right words when drawing comparisons between Agatha, her witchy character on Marvel’s first Disney+ series, and a jealous court composer named Salieri, played by F. Murray Abraham, in the Oscar-winning 1984 film Amadeus. Wanda Maximoff equals Mozart, of course. The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony is set…
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‘Purple Rain,’ ‘Clerks, ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ Added to National Film Registry
“Purple Rain,” “Clerks,” “She’s Gotta Have It,” “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “Amadeus,” “Sleeping Beauty,””Boys Don’t Cry” and “The Last Waltz” are among this year’s additions to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.The list also includes 1944’s “Gaslight,” starring Ingrid Bergman in an Oscar-winning performance; the 1955 film noir “The Phenix City Story,” based…
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‘Purple Rain,’ ‘Amadeus,’ ‘Boys Don’t Cry,’ ‘Clerks’ Enter National Film Registry
Purple Rain, Amadeus, She’s Gotta Have It and Clerks — this year’s biggest public vote-getter — plus seven films directed by women, including Boys Don’t Cry, are among the latest cinematic treasures chosen for the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, it was announced Wednesday.The list of 25 films picked to be preserved for future…
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Milos Foreman And Casey Affleck Will Be Part Of 2018 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Cannes may be right around the corner and Tribeca may be wrapping up, but we’re almost two months away from the start of the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Today Kviff announced that legendary filmmaker Milos Foreman will be honored with his signature Czech film “Love of a Blonde” being selected as the opening…
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Milos Forman Appreciation: A Civilized Filmmaker Who Loved Rebels
Milos Forman, who died last week at 86, directed only 12 dramatic features, a startlingly compact résumé when you consider that his career spanned 60 years and more than a few filmmaking epochs, from the Czech New Wave of the ’60s to the New Hollywood ’70s to the post-indie ’90s. Yet almost every one of…
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Movie Talk: Breaking Down the Weekend Box Office, Plus ‘Terminator’ Casting
On this episode of Collider Movie Talk, Mark Ellis, Kristian Harloff, and Jon Schnepp discuss the following: Oscar winning filmmaker Milos Forman passed away on Friday at 86 years old. He won the Best Director Oscar twice for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus. Well known character actor R. Lee Ermey also passed…
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Miloš Forman obituary
Oscar-winning director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and AmadeusWhen Miloš Forman, who has died aged 86, travelled to Prague to shoot the film Amadeus in 1984, it was the first time he had set foot in his homeland for 16 years. He had fled communist Czechoslovakia in 1968 just before the Russians put…