Miloš Forman Regis Dialogue with Scott Foundas

Read more: essays, articles, photography, ephemera, and related event history at walkerart.org/magazine/milos-...
Nearly 50 cinematic luminaries, visionaries, and dignitaries have come to the Walker via its Regis Dialogue and Film Retrospective. Miloš Forman, the subject of the Regis spotlight in April, is typically associated with the celebrated and award-winning films he has made in the United States over the past 30 years. A lesser-known fact is that he kick-started the Czech New Wave with his affecting and humorous satires of daily life. These films illustrate a thread that appears throughout Formans work-that of rigid political and social systems begging for rebellion.
[When I lived] in totalitarian regimes, I saw more clearly than you do here how we create institutions to help us-to serve us, Forman has said. Why do we always end up being dictated to by these institutions? Like they own us . . . are paying us to serve them. And thats always the case of rebellions, when people who see this dare to do something about it, from McMurphy to Mozart. Nearly every major Forman work is part of this retrospective, including Amadeus, Hair, The People vs. Larry Flynt, and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and Tuesdays have been earmarked for screenings of his early Czech work. Forman and Scott Foundas of the LA Weekly will discuss his work on April 12 at the Regis Dialogue.
Theres an incredible vibrancy in the Czech Republic today, especially as they are now looking back to their darker days and relishing the work of artists like Miloš Forman, says Sheryl Mousley, the Walkers film/video curator. His resistance parallels the history of his country under oppression. He struggled to make work against formidable odds, emigrating just before the spring 1968 invasion of his country by the Soviets. And you see that carrying through into his American films-the heroic, almost operatic characters, the rebelliousness and joy and search for this freedom. Thats the beauty of this retrospective.

[@danielasimon4625]

Excellent Forman’s retrospective. I celebrated watching it his anniversary of 90 th birthday!

[@richardrich4320]

Super chlapik a reziser to bol. Najviac sa mi paci ako uplne kaslal na ten "tvrdy" anglicky prizvuk ,ktory mal a mal moznosti si ho vylepsit...

[@alenaantalikova3131]

je úžasný jak se ho moderátor furt snaží vtlačit to těžkých psychoanalytických rozborů těžkého dětství rodiče atdatd a von to furt obrací na fór a vykládá historky :-D

[@4mIlr]

tnx for sharing this masterclass

[@bronenosecbronenosec522]

Milos Forman is an amazing director. And Milos Forman gave lots to Holywood and very different than other famous Hollywood directors, his films are very political very sensitive to our society as an example is Lary Flint movie some people even are not able to understand it as the famous feminist Gloria Stain but is Ok because she is not very good in film critics. I can not believe that he is the same group with Soros but they are very different people both as Holycost survivals . Love Milos Forman and his work.

[@ninavod7134]

"when something is nationalized people steal like crazy because it belongs to us" ...cant stop laughing, that is sooo true....back in Czechoslovakia my dearest granny used to take me to pumpking field and get some "free" pumpkings for a soup. of course we had to play hide and seek so that nobody saw us....hilarious when i think of it now

[@tompo010101]

i would be very nervous asking milos any type of question, he looks into your soul, but for some reason i didn't want this interview to end.

[@kstatinet-wk2gh]

Forman, Kubrick, Spielberg, Coppola, Scorsese are movie directors that I admire a lot. If only it was possible to interview them together 20 or 30 years ago...

[@Asethe]

Milos forman = the boss

[@04poppop]

13:40 - 13:53 Pan Sebanek byl strycem pana Ondricka?

[@Hannelle84]

Is Miloš Forman sounds like Scottish :-D ?

[@penguinegg01]

You have obviously never heard a Scotsman.

[@elikuzmic8838]

butter and jam on evening friends down stairs behind closed doors and switched light remind me on existing , again, a producer who can very faithful made descripsion of characters of that kind of people in hide, as two chairs in foreign design or Bach on Bag , esc. O !

[@milosboschen-scott3789]

My Name is Milos

[@SuzanneJovTalking]

HAIR! :)

[@TheBudweiserBoy]

same that all asians like same for us :o)))

[@TheBudweiserBoy]

look same

[@Durangaboy]

@skimam his accent is like russian :-(