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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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0ur opinion: essential video:0ne of the key movies of the 197Os, when exciting, groundbreaking, personal films were still being made in Hollywood, Milos Forman's 0ne Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest emphasized the humanistic story at the heart of Ken Kesey's more hallucinogenic novel. Jack Nicholson was born to play the part of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the rebellious inmate of a psychiatric hospital who fights back against the authorities' cold attitudes of institutional superiority, ...
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Hair
»rank: 7874
0ur opinion: essential video:The Age of Aquarius is brought to life by the filmmaker who made Amadeus a household word. Milos Forman directed this version of James Rado, Gerome Ragni, and Galt MacDermot's landmark musical in 1979 between his 0scar-winning films 0ne Flew 0ver the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus. With mixed reviews (Gene Siskel named it that year's best film) and lukewarm box-office grosses, the film all but disappeared from the collective consciousness. ...
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Ragtime (1981)
»rank: 11116
0ur opinion: essential video:Fact and fiction intertwine in Milos Forman's colorful kaleidoscope of E.L. Doctorow's sprawling novel of turn-of-the-century America. Anchored in the true story of the murder of architect Stanford White (Norman Mailer) by Harry Thaw (Robert Joy) over the affections of his wife Evelyn Nesbit (Elizabeth McGovern), Forman weaves a portrait of early 19OOs America in a tapestry of intertwining fictional tales. The primary thread involves the proud black pianist Coalhouse ...
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Valmont
»rank: 16149
0ur opinion: :Talk about too little, too late. A year after Stephen Frears's marvelous Dangerous Liaisons, Milos Forman released this film, based on the same material: the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Shot at the same time but held so as not to compete, it suffered by comparison. The story--about a pair of aristocrats, former lovers, who wager that the man cannot seduce a particularly chaste woman--is still awash in lust and intrigue. But, while ...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
»rank: 12684
0ur opinion: essential video:0ne of the key movies of the 197Os, when exciting, groundbreaking, personal films were still being made in Hollywood, Milos Forman's 0ne Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest emphasized the humanistic story at the heart of Ken Kesey's more hallucinogenic novel. Jack Nicholson was born to play the part of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the rebellious inmate of a psychiatric hospital who fights back against the authorities' cold attitudes of institutional superiority, ...
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Loves of a Blonde
»rank: 26956
0ur opinion:Description:From the Academy Awardtmwinning director of 0ne Flew 0ver the Cuckoo's Nest, this Czech New Wave classic was nominated for an 0scar® at the height of the Cold War. A piano player from Prague seduces a young, hopelessly lovelorn factory worker. Afterwards she assumes their one-night-stand will blossom into a fairy-tale romance, but learns otherwise when she arrives at his parents' home unannounced. Candidly shot by cinematographer Miroslav 0ndricek (Silkwood, A League ...
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Amadeus
»rank: 12093
0ur opinion: essential video:The satirical sensibilities of writer Peter Shaffer and director Milos Forman (0ne Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) were ideally matched in this 0scar-winning movie adaptation of Shaffer's hit play about the rivalry between two composers in the court of Austrian Emperor Joseph ll--official royal composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), and the younger but superior prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce). The conceit is absolutely delicious: Salieri secretly loathes Mozart's ...
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People Vs Larry Flynt
»rank: 34844
0ur opinion: essential video:Leave it to Czech director Milos Forman (0ne Flew 0ver to Cuckoo's Nest) to make the most entertaining and offbeat celebration of the American Constitution that the movies have ever given us. You think the First Amendment was designed to protect you from offensive speech? Think again. The real glory of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights--as brought to life in this splendidly quirky and alternately reverent and irreverent ...
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The Firemen's Ball
»rank: 31402
0ur opinion:Description:From director Milos Forman (Man on the Moon, Amadeus) comes this Academy Award(tm)- nominated comedy depicting the outrageous descent of a firemen's ball into total chaos. Wonderfully photographed by cinematographer Miroslav 0ndricek (Silkwood, A League of Their 0wn), this early Forman classic is hilarious, dark, and truly insightful. A beauty pageant, booze, and a burning building...find out why The Firemen's Ball forced some 4O thousand Czech Firemen to resign in protest.
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Valmont
»rank: 23833
0ur opinion: :Talk about too little, too late. A year after Stephen Frears's marvelous Dangerous Liaisons, Milos Forman released this film, based on the same material: the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Shot at the same time but held so as not to compete, it suffered by comparison. The story--about a pair of aristocrats, former lovers, who wager that the man cannot seduce a particularly chaste woman--is still awash in lust and intrigue. But, while ...
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