GATEWAY CINEMA, a conversation – Episode 8: Performance: “Amadeus (Director’s Cut)”

GATEWAY CINEMA is a multi-part series of conversations centered on key ideas in film studies. In these conversations, we interpret and celebrate a set of eclectic feature films from across generations and from around the world, including “La Haine”, “Drum”, “Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)”, “Come and See”, “Perfect Days”, “Sweet Smell of Success”, “The Swimmer”, “Amadeus (Director’s Cut)”, “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia”, “Friday”, “Marie Antoinette”, “The Night of the Hunter”, “Crank” and “Crank 2: High Voltage”, “Portrait of a Lady Fire”, “The Fabulous Baron Munchausen”, “Joker: Folie a Deux”, “Welcome to the Dollhouse”, “Heathers”, and “The Death of Stalin”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 8:

• "Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)” (David Fincher, 1992/2003)
• “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (Steven Spielberg, 1984)
• “Ghostbusters” (Ivan Reitman, 1984)
• “Gremlins” (Joe Dante, 1984)
• “The Karate Kid” (John G. Avildsen)
• “Purple Rain” (Albert Magnoli, 1984)
• “Silver Spoons” (Martin Cohan, Howard Leeds, and Ben Starr, 1982-1987)
• “Red Dawn” (John Milius, 1984)
• “Stop Making Sense” (Jonathan Demme, 1984)
• “The Terminator” (James Cameron, 1984)
• “At the Movies” (Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, 1982-1986)
• “Conan the Barbarian” (John Milius, 1982)
• “Body Double” (Brian De Palma, 1984)
• “The Killing Fields” (Roland Joffé, 1984)
• “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (Wes Craven, 1984)
• “Beverly Hills Cop” (Martin Brest, 1984)
• “Dune” (David Lynch, 1984)
• “The Cotton Club” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1984)
• “The Cotton Club: Encore” (Francis Ford Coppola, 2017)
• “Starman” (John Carpenter, 1984)
• “E.T.” (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
• “The Thing” (John Carpenter, 1982)
• “Come and See” (Elen Klimov, 1985)
• “Star Wars” (George Lucas, 1977)
• “Time Bandits” (Terry Gilliam, 1981)
• “The Smurfs and the Magic Flute” (José Dutillieu, 1975)
• “Style Wars” (Tony Silver, 1983)
• “Mary Poppins” (Robert Stevenson, 1964)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 8:

• “Amadeus (Director’s Cut)” (Miloš Forman, 1984/2002), including “Piano Concerto In E Flat, K. 482; 3rd Movement” (1785), “Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail: Finale” (1781), “Symphony 29 in A Major, 1st Movement” (1774), https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq6-EneBMiNHmdqqE_5TmkJ9neViFMvTL
• “Rock Me Amadeus” by Falco (1985), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XA&list=RDcVikZ8Oe_XA&start_radio=1
• “Purple Rain” (Albert Magnoli, 1984)
• “Come and See” (Elem Klimov, 1985), including “Requiem in D minor, K. 626: Sequentia, Lacrimosa” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791)