a fine use for your DVD player!

Rating: Null/10 (2 July 2000)

I wish I owned a Dolby 5.1 receiver, but even w/ just Dolby Pro Logic Amadeus is a pleasure to see and hear. So much talented collaboration collaboration from every field: Peter Shaffer, Milos Forman, Tom Hulce... all provide beautiful key elements that lift Amadeus to the highest shelf on my meager DVD rack.
The DVD features an interesting set of bonus materials, such as a music-only rendition, but the video quality to me seems not quite up to par with more recent DVD releases. The disc also uses only one layer, and must be flipped halfway through.
Despite these very minor setbacks, there are few better ways to put your home theater system to the task of delivering a thoroughly enjoyable yet somewhat disturbing suggestion of Mozart's life and death. Was it rheumatic fever, or was it the music itself? The answers are not here, but you will find a a screen full of fabulous costumes against a glorious soundtrack. The music-only mode provides well enough spirit to convey the film just as effectively as when the dialogue is included.