New 4K Restoration!

Friday, July 19 at 6:30 p.m.: Q&A with producer Paul Zaentz moderated by film critic Jordan Hoffman

Winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Director, Forman’s lush, rollickingly entertaining drama explores the mysteries of creativity and divinely-bestowed genius, as well as jealousy, addiction and disapproving dads. In a remote asylum, elderly composer Antonio Salieri (a riveting, Oscar-winning F. Murray Abraham) regales a priest with the story of his long-ago frenemyship with the legendary Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce, also nominated for Best Actor). Flashing back to 18th-century Vienna, the pious and pompous Salieri eagerly anticipates meeting Europe’s greatest musical genius—only to discover that Mozart is also crass, immature and deeply annoying. Knowing that the talent of a “dirty-minded little creature” far surpasses his own drives Salieri to teeth-grinding aggravation and, ultimately, an obsession to destroy his rival.

“Enthralling… made on so lavish a scale as to make you think you had died and gone back to the Golden Age of Movie Making.” - Los Angeles Times