F Murray Abraham won Best Actor for Amadeus, playing Salieri narrating from an asylum, and the performance requires him to age forty years and to convey envy as something close to religious agony.
He has said the award made it harder to get work, not easier. Scarface, The Name of the Rose and The Grand Budapest Hotel fill out the film career, and The White Lotus brought a late Emmy nomination. He works constantly in Shakespeare on stage.
Anthony QuinnLast Action Hero (1993) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Columbia made a deconstruction of the action film starring the biggest action star alive, marketed it to children, and opened it one week after Jurassic Park. The…
Ethan HawkeMoon Knight (2022) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Four episodes of the most distinctive television the franchise made, then two conventional ones. The asylum episode is the high point and the series never recovers from resolving…
Elizabeth BerridgeAmadeus (1984) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Not a biography and not trying to be. A film about a competent man given exactly enough talent to hear genius in somebody else and never produce it himself.
Christian SlaterJean-Jacques Annaud's 1986 Eco adaptation. Sean Connery as Franciscan monk investigating monastery murders.
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