Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.The Towering: AmadeusDirector Milos Forman’s Oscar-gobbling biopic of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lands on just about every critical list of the Best Movies Ever Made.
It has good reason: it may just be a perfect movie. Out gay actor Tom Hulce stars in the title role as the ever-horny, ever-flirtatious composer of some of the most iconic music ever.
The film takes the unusual step of retelling Mozart’s life through the eyes of one of his chief rivals, Antonio Salieri (F. Murry Abraham), a scheming fellow composer who views Mozart with acidic envy.