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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Phil Bagnall, The 250 is a trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT, with the occasional weekend off.

This time, Miloš Forman’s Amadeus.

Following a failed suicide attempt, ageing composer Antonio Salieri is consigned to psychiatric institution while babbling incoherently. When a young priest comes to visit, Salieri offers an account of his life. In particular, he elaborates upon a confession that he made on the night that he tried to take his life, that he murdered an illustrious young rival by the name of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 82nd best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 15th April 2018.
• This special episode was recorded to commemorate the passing of director Miloš Forman. In fact, the idea of recording this tribute to Forman came from guest Phil Bagnall.
• Amadeus at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Read Phil’s reviews at Scannain.
• Roger Ebert discusses Amadeus, April 2002.
• David Shariatmadari at The Guardian on Amadeus as his favourite film, December 2011.
• Vincent Canby reviews Amadeus for The New York Times, September 1984.
• Adi Robertson at The Verge on Time Cube, September 2015.
• 30 Rock parodies Amadeus at the climax of Succession, April 2008.
• Family Guy parodies Amadeus in It Takes a Village Idiot and I Married One, May 2007.
• Writer Peter Schaffer discusses the origins of Amadeus, January 2013.
• Blake Goble at Consequence of Sound on the production of Amadeus, September 2014.
• Alex von Tunzelmann on the historical inaccuracies of Amadeus at The Guardian, October 2009.
• Joe Moore introduces his own radio drama Maligned Master: The Glory of Salieri for Hawaii Public Radio, May 2016.
• Erica Jeal at The Guardian on the fictionalised rivalry between Mozart and Salieri, December 2003.
• Erin Blakemore at the Smithsonian Magazine on the recently discovered collaboration between Mozart and Salieri, February 2016.
• Lukáš Vendl performs that collaboration, Per la Ricuperata Salute di Offelia, for the Czech Museum of Music, February 2016.
• David Leigh at Slate on what makes Mozart a better composer than is contemporaries, January 2014.
• An example of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart writing to his cousin, November 1777.
• Jane Rule on Mozart’s Laugh in the Journal of Lesbian Studies, October 2000.
• Allan Kozinn in The New York Times on Mozart’s “naughty” texts, March 1991.
• Aidin Ashoori and Joseph Jankovic ask whether Mozart had Tourette’s Syndrome in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, November 2007.
• Donal Henahan at The New York Times on the myth of Mozart as a divine instrument, February 1981.
• Mozart.com on the question of whether Mozart and Beethoven ever met.
• Jason Pirodsky at The Prague Reporter on how Mark Hamill was almost Mozart, December 2017.
• Kurt Loder interviews Mick Jagger for Rolling Stone, November 1983.
• Michael London on the box office strategy behind the release of Amadeus for The Los Angeles Times, March 1985.
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