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Film As is the vogue, Amadeus is being re-released in a special edition with digitally re-mastered sound and picture. Which affords CHUD the chance to interview Tom Hulce and Saul Zaentz about the experience. I've always been fascinated by why scenes are cut from a film for time. Usually it's for the same reason:

"There were twenty minutes that were in the film - the last cut. Some friends of ours who we trust, who are filmmakers, who we see their pictures - they ask us, we ask them - brought up some things like, "three-hour picture," they said, "it's a costume picture," "nobody in it," "no stars in it for the public to grab onto."