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film · Monday 31 August 2026 · 6:00pm 
Amadeus - Triskel Cinema Cork
At Triskel Christchurch · Tobin Street, Cork City, Co. Cork
At Triskel Christchurch · Tobin Street, Cork City, Co. Cork
Milos Forman’s Amadeus is one of those films that holds up completely on a big screen - the period detail, the Mozart score, the theatrical force of F. Murray Abraham’s Salieri. Triskel Arts Centre is showing it across four evenings from Monday 31 August to Thursday 3 September 2026, which is exactly the right setting for it. This is a film to see in a proper cinema with an audience. If you haven’t seen it before, it runs 161 minutes in the Director’s Cut and earns every one of them. If you saw it years ago, the restored footage adds scenes that deepen Salieri’s obsession considerably.
The film dramatises the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through the jealous eyes of Antonio Salieri, his older, more disciplined rival at the court of Emperor Joseph II in Vienna. Tom Hulce plays Mozart as a giggling, vulgar prodigy; Abraham plays Salieri as a man slowly destroyed by proximity to genius he cannot match. It won eight Academy Awards in 1985 including Best Picture and Best Director, and has lost none of its power. The Director’s Cut, released in 2002, restored nearly 20 minutes of footage cut from the theatrical release.
Triskel Christchurch is a fully restored neoclassical Georgian church on Tobin Street, converted into a cinema and performance space in 2011. The auditorium retains the original church pews, and the screen pulls up when the space switches to live music. Cork’s dedicated arthouse cinema, it runs world cinema, documentaries, and classic film seasons. Seeing Amadeus here, in a Georgian interior with a proper audience, is a genuinely different experience to a multiplex.
Triskel Christchurch is on Tobin Street in Cork city centre, a short walk from Patrick Street and the Grand Parade. Bus Eireann and Expressway coaches connect Cork to Dublin, Limerick, Galway, and most other Irish cities, with Parnell Place Bus Station nearby. Kent Station is about 15 minutes on foot across the river, or a short taxi ride. If driving, the Grand Parade multi-storey and Parnell Place car parks are the nearest options.
Cork city rewards a few hours before or after the film - the English Market is a short walk away and open until early evening most days. There is more to see in Cork and across Co. Cork.
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