Milos Forman Articles

Former Czech Republic president Václav Havel died from respiratory problems earlier today. Havel, who had been a heavy smoker, was 75. Besides his role as a political dissident during the Communist regime and as a representative of Czechoslovakia's transition from Communist rule to economically and politically troubled constitutional democracy, Havel was also a playwright. A number of his plays were filmed for television throughout the [...]

Christophe Honoré's Les bien-aimés / The Beloved will close the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on May 22. The out-of-competition screening will take place after Robert De Niro and his Official Competition jury hand out the Palme d'Or and other awards. The Beloved follows a couple of love stories in 1960s Prague and 1980s London, in addition to Paris in the early 21st century. The Beloved [...]

A Well Paid Walk by Milos Forman (top); Vaclav Havel in Citizen Havel by Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek (middle); The Karamazovs by Petr Zelenka (bottom) New Czech Films at New York's BAMcinématek. The series includes works by two-time Academy Award winner Milos Forman and Jan Hrebejk, whose Divided We Fall (2000) was nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar. Václav Marhoul's war drama [...]

Host Chris Frayling (left), Oscar-winning writer Peter Shaffer (center) and two-time Oscar-winning director Milos Forman at the reception preceding the 25th anniversary screening of Amadeus, presented by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, at the Soho Hotel Screening Room in London on Friday, July 31, 2009. Photos: Simon Leibowitz / ©A.M.P.A.S. Click on the photos to enlarge them. Peter Shaffer, Milos Forman Sophie [...]