Movies

November, 1984

Director Milos Forman's triumphant and courageous film adapted from Peter Shaffer's Amadeus (Orion) is unequivocally the grandest epic ever made about the life of a great composer. Admirers of the Shaffer play, which electrified Broadway and London theatergoers a couple of seasons ago, should brace themselves for an entirely irreverent, re-created homage to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), the profane and vulgar but peerless musical genius. Shaffer's stage drama was a work of blazing intelli...