Milos FormanFilmography

A Walk Worthwhile

Crew: Director

Actors: Jiri Suchy, Dása Zázvurková, Petr Stach, Petr Pisa, Tereza Hálová

Goya's Ghosts

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid, José Luis Gómez, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: The lives of a great artist, a corrupted holy man, and a beautiful woman cross paths at a crucial moment in history in this epic-scale historical drama from director Milos Forman. Near the end of the 18th century, Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgård) is a gifted but controversial artist whose Read More

Nomad

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kuno Becker, Jay Hernandez, Jason Scott Lee, Doskhan Zholzhaksynov, Ayanat Yesmagambetova

Synopsis: Czech New Wave leader Ivan Passer picks up the torch originally ignited by Russian director Sergei Bodrov to bring Central Asia's first-ever event film to the light of the silver screen. Penned by Russian screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov, Nomad tells the tale of 18th-century Kazak military Read More

Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco

Actors: Chris Columbus, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, George Lucas, Saul Zaentz

Synopsis: While Los Angeles has been the capital of major studio filmmaking in America since the early ears of the 20th Century, in the northern part of California, San Francisco has become home to a different breed of filmmaker -- artists who treasure their independence and carefully guard their creative Read More

Hair: Let the Sunshine In

Actors: Milos Forman, Keith Carradine, Ben Vereen, Tim Curry, Melba Moore

Synopsis: The cast and creators of the 60s-era musical Hair reflect on the remarkable cultural impact that their play had on the shifting American sociopolitical landscape as filmmakers Wolfgang Held and Pola Rapaport investigate the curious origins of the landmark production. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Read More

Well-Paid Stroll 2007

Tell Them Who You Are

Actors: Haskell Wexler, Mark S. Wexler, Peter Bart, James Becket, Verna Bloom

Synopsis: Mark Wexler is a successful photojournalist who has also distinguished himself as a documentary filmmaker, but in many ways he has spent much of his life in the shadow of his more famous father, Haskell Wexler. One of Hollywood's greatest cinematographers, Haskell is also known as a director (he Read More

Francois Truffaut, une Autobiographie

A Decade Under the Influence

Actors: Steven Soderbergh, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Ellen Burstyn

Synopsis: In the late '60s, American culture experienced a period of change as the youth movement challenged conventional attitudes about politics, sex, drugs, and gender issues, while the advancement of the Vietnam War found many citizens questioning the actions and wisdom of their government for the first Read More

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

Actors: Sydney Pollack, Charles Chaplin, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey, Jr., Woody Allen, Milos Forman, Marcel Marceau

Synopsis: American film historian and author Richard Schickel directs the documentary Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin. Schickel offers an exploration into Chaplin's life, from his childhood in London until his death in 1977. The film also contains insight on his multifaceted film career and Read More

Keeping the Faith

Actors: Edward Norton, Ben Stiller, Jenna Elfman, Anne Bancroft, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Actor Edward Norton debuts as a director with this comedy-drama about love, friendship, and faith. Priest Brian Finn (Norton) and rabbi Jacob Schram (Ben Stiller) have known each other since childhood. When Anna Reilly (Jenna Elfman), whom they both knew as children, returns to New York, both men Read More

Man on the Moon

Crew: Director

Actors: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti, Vincent Schiavelli

Synopsis: Comedian Andy Kaufman gave performances that were bizarre and difficult to categorize, in which he might do or say almost anything: show cartoons, impersonate Elvis Presley, play conga drums while singing children's songs, read aloud from The Great Gatsby, or take the audience out for milk and Read More

The People Vs. Larry Flynt

Crew: Director

Actors: James Carville, Brett Harrelson, Burt Neuborne, Richard Paul, Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, James Cromwell, Crispin Glover

Synopsis: "If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, then it'll protect all of you -- 'cause I'm the worst," declares Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt (as played by Woody Harrelson) in the midst of one of his many court cases. Milos Forman's film follows Flynt from his childhood in Read More

Who is Henry Jaglom?

Synopsis: Henry Jaglom is a filmmaker who was a pioneer of the independent film movement long before it had a name. Jaglom began his Hollywood career in the mid-Sixties as an actor, but in 1971 he wrote and directed his first feature film, A Safe Place, which starred his friends Orson Welles and Jack Read More

Why Havel?

Actors: Milos Forman

Synopsis: As the Iron Curtain countries eased their way out from under Soviet control, they began forming non-communist governments under the leadership of well-known dissidents. Perhaps the best known of these is the Czech writer and playwright Vaclav Havel, whose works were well known and widespread, and Read More

L'Envers du Decor

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Harrison Ford, Roman Polanski, Milos Forman, Nagisa Oshima

Synopsis: The modest, highly praised, award-winning cinematic production designer Pierre Guffroy is the subject of this reportedly somewhat uneven documentary. Among the notable directors he worked for were Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, Milos Forman, Jean Cocteau and Roman Polanski; not only that, but he Read More

New Year's Day

Actors: Maggie Jakobson, Gwen Welles, Melanie Winter, Henry Jaglom, Milos Forman, David Duchovny

Synopsis: Filmmaker Henry Jaglom plays the leading male role in his characteristically gabby New Year's Day. Jaglom is a writer who insists upon asking disturbing and intrusive questions to the revellers at a New Year's Eve party. His inclusion in the story is explained by having him sublet a California Read More

Valmont

Crew: Director

Actors: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Sian Phillips

Synopsis: The third adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' classic novel Les Liasons Dangereuses, Milos Forman's Valmont was released one year after Stephen Frears' more famous version of the de Laclos original, Dangerous Liaisons. The plot remains the same: two debauched, depraved 18th century French Read More

Completely Cuckoo

Synopsis: This 1988 documentary describes the tumultuous process involved in bringing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to the screen. After having his script confiscated by Czech authorities in the early '60s, Milos Foreman would have to wait nearly ten years before Kirk and Michael Douglas could secure Read More

Heartburn

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: Though she always played coy about the fact in interviews, Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn is a thinly disguised "a clef" rehash of her marriage to Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein. Meryl Streep plays Rachel, an influential food critic who marries charismatic columnist Mark (Jack Nicholson) Read More

50 Years of Action!

Actors: Stanley Ackerman, Woody Allen, John A. Alonzo, Warren Beatty

Synopsis: One of the few documentaries to shine a spotlight on directors in Hollywood, this informative film sketches out the 50-year history of the Directors Guild of America. Formed at a time when people were still fighting for unions in the United States, the guild also had its problems when the studios Read More

Amadeus

Crew: Director

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice

Synopsis: For this film adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Broadway hit, director Milos Forman returned to the city of Prague that he'd left behind during the Czech political crises of 1968, bringing along his usual cinematographer and fellow Czech expatriate, Miroslav Ondricek. Amadeus is an expansion of a Read More

Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

Actors: Jay Leyda, Robert L. Rosen

Synopsis: At the beginning of this documentary on early cinematographer Edwin S. Porter (1869-1941), director Charles Musser gives some background on the "nickelodeons" or theaters that charged a nickel as an entrance fee, and their early (presumably cheaper) predecessors. The men who set up the programs at Read More

Ragtime

Crew: Director

Actors: James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Kenneth McMillan, Pat O'Brien, Donald O'Connor, James Olson, Mandy Patinkin, Howard E. Rollins, Jr.

Synopsis: E. L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime was a sprawling fictional account of American manners and mores in the years between 1900 and 1913. Among the mosaic of colorful factual and fictional characters in the novel were escape artist Harry Houdini and radical Emma Goldman. Both characters are all but Read More

James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy

Synopsis: Born in 1899, James Cagney managed to become one of America's greatest and most imitated actors. Some of his best-known films are also ones in which his sister Jeanne played a role: Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Time of Your Life, A Lion Is in the Streets, and Man of a Thousand Faces. He received an Read More

Hair

Crew: Director

Actors: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Nicholas Ray, Annie Golden

Synopsis: Milos Forman's adaptation of the tribal rock musical Hair stars John Savage as Claude, a quiet young man from the Midwest who becomes friendly with a group of New York hippies on his way to begin basic training in the military. The repressed Claude is quite taken with Berger (Treat Williams) and Read More

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Dean R. Brooks, Scatman Crothers

Synopsis: With an insane asylum standing in for everyday society, Milos Forman's 1975 film adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel is a comically sharp indictment of the Establishment urge to conform. Playing crazy to avoid prison work detail, manic free spirit Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is sent to the Read More

Visions of Eight: The Olympics of Motion Picture Achievement

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This documentary of the 1972 Summer Olympics, held in Munich, is remarkable for bringing eight of the world's most notable film directors to work on it. They are: Milos Forman, Yuri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch and John Schlesinger. Each Read More

Taking Off

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Linnea Heacock, Georgia Engel, Tony Harvey

Synopsis: Czech filmmaker Milos Forman's first American production stars Linnea Heacock as Jeannie Tyne, a runaway teenager. While she wanders aimlessly around New York, her suburban parents, Lynn (Lynn Carlin) and Larry (Buck Henry), desperately search for their "missing" daughter. Larry and his best Read More

I Miss Sonia Henie

Crew: Director

The Firemen's Ball

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Vaclav Stockel, Josef Svet, Josef Valnoha, Jan Vostrcil, Josef Kolb, Frantisek Debelka

Synopsis: Firemen's Ball was Czechoslovakian director Milos Forman's final film in his home country; he was scouting locations in Paris when the Russians moved their tanks into Prague in 1968 causing Forman to decide to remain an expatriate. Because of the supercharged political climate of the era, critics Read More

Loves of a Blonde

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Hana Brejchova, Vladimir Pucholt, Vladimir Mensik, Antonin Blazejovsky, Jiri Hruby

Synopsis: Out in the Czech countryside, a shoe factory owner petitions the People's Army to station a division of soldiers in his town, where the women outnumber the men sixteen to one. The arrival of the troops is greeted with great excitement, but the girls in the town are disappointed to see that the men Read More

Black Peter

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martinkova, Pavel Sedlacek, Bozena Matuskova

Synopsis: Czech director Milos Forman won first prize at the Locarno film festival for his first feature film, Black Peter. This coming-of-age story about a shy teenager who falls in love, bears the heavy influence of Francois Truffaut, as do most other "new wave" productions of the era. Even at this early Read More

Competition

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jan Vostrcil, Vladimir Pucholt, Jiri Suchy

Synopsis: This two-part comedy consists of "Why Do We Have All These Brass Bands?" and "The Audition." In the former, two brass bands practice to compete in an honorary ceremony. The two units are made up of primarily elderly musicians, but each has a youthful member as well. When the two young musicians Read More