Movies Make You Smarter: See Amadeus at The Paramount

Amadeus Director’s Cut At The Paramount
Wednesday, September 2 & Thursday, September 3, 7:15 p.m.
Paramount Theater (713 Congress Avenue)
$7 for online advanced tickets, $8 at the door
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If listening to Mozart for fifteen minutes a day will make you smarter, imagine what watching a two hour movie can do!

Well, probably not so much. Despite the fact that Zell Miller, former Govenor of Georgia, wanted a classical music cd for every child (ahhhh, socialism . . .), the Mozart Effect most likely doesn't exist.

Nevertheless, there's something good your brain can absorb when you check out Amadeus at the Paramount Wednesday or Thursday night.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a classic eccentric, prodigy-savant, as strong a figure as music has produced, and the film is all over it. Amadeus won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1985 and although—like all biopics—some of it is probably very far-fetched, this is a great time to see the director's cut of a classic film in a very apropos venue.

Thursday night's screening gets fancy, featuring the live tunes of a pianist in the lobby (pretty sure he'll be playing some Mozart).

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By lukequinton in Arts & Entertainment on September 1, 2009 4:15 PM 0 Comments

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oh steph

I'm not lying when I say that those three hours FLEW by. Of course, I've loved the film since the first time I saw it in my wee years, but that is beside the point. F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce are mesmerizing.