Miloš Forman: What Happened Was... (2007)

Winner of two Academy Awards for Best Director, Miloš Forman talks at length about his days as a film student in then communist Czechoslovakia, how film festivals and the international success of "Loves of a Blonde" (1965) enabled him to travel abroad, why his last Czech film was "The Firemen's Ball" (1967), coming to America to make "Taking Off" (1971) and why that was a total flop, the remarkable chain of events that brought him to "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" (1975), making "Hair" (1979), "Ragtime" (1981) and getting James Cagney out of retirement, casting F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce in "Amadeus" (1985) and Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love in “The People vs. Larry Flynt” (1996), arguing with authors and directing actors, to his last film "Goya's Ghosts" (2006) and why Napoleon's invasion of 19th Century Spain should have been a cautionary tale for more recent military adventures. An extraordinary life, and a master filmmaker.

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*Fantastic* interview.

[@Jack-2day]

Legend! After this, inspired to view all of Milos films. Best director twice for good reason Cheers

[@leventalioglu2234]

He directed Amadeus.For me THE BEST MOVİE EVER MADE.That's enough for me.R.I.P.

[@f4ust85]

He speaks like an old general and has this charming, completely direct way of talking, extremely rare in the west.

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Oh, how under-viewed this video is! Too true of all great things This was great Thank you for making this You are gifted What are you lately doing? I will pray for America. Please pray for me. God Bless you.

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Love your interviews, you have great questions and sense of humor

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Well thank you! Much appreciated.

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Larry Flynt was 1996