Milos Forman

A TV jingle caught my ear the other day. What was that melody? Why did it sound so deeply familiar? And what was it selling? I did name that tune. But, really, I wish I did not. You see, it was "Let the Sun Shine In," the anthem from the end of "Hair" -...

NESTLED IN the hills to the west of the Hollywood sign, Runyon Canyon is a see-and-be-seen hiking circuit, heavy on the unleashed dogs. As a workout, it's a dust-bowl journey of around 45 minutes, during which one sometimes passes -- amid the halter-...

By Richard Rayner "He had the build of a plunging halfback, with big shoulders and a neck like the stump of a Douglas fir," wrote Malcolm Cowley, who taught Ken Kesey in a writing class at Stanford in 1960. "Chapters of a novel were read aloud in a...

Director/co-writer Milos Forman explores the brutality and suspicion of 18th century Spain through the work of painter Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgård) and two of his subjects: Brother Lorenzo (Javier Bardem), a dishonorable member of the Inquisition,...

(C+) The creative team behind the movie version of Amadeus, director Milos Forman and producer Saul Zaentz, return to themes from their biggest success with Goya's Ghosts - and emerge spattered in blood, not glory. They trace the survival skills and...

A summary of the movies playing Oct. 11 to Nov. 15, 2007 at the 22nd Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Most tickets are $10 general admission; $5 for members and free for holders of FLIFF Fast Pass. Parties and special events are priced...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) — Danny DeVito will receive a special award for his outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the 42nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The festival in the western Czech spa of Karlovy Vary opened...

Director/co-writer Milos Forman explores the brutality and suspicion of 18th century Spain through the work of painter Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgard) and two of his subjects: Brother Lorenzo (Javier Bardem), a dishonorable member of the Inquisition,...

"Goya's Ghosts" is Milos Forman's first film since 1999, but you sincerely wish it wasn't. A logy, rambling period piece, it feels about as far away from the spirit of "Amadeus" as it's possible to get with wigs and britches. Focusing only incidentally on...

Screenwriters Michael Arndt ("Little Miss Sunshine"), Guillermo del Toro ("Pan's Labyrinth"), Peter Morgan ("The Queen") and Iris Yamashita ("Letters From Iwo Jima") were splayed across a lounge at the Writers Guild headquarters in Beverly Hills. They had...

MICHAEL APTED'S "49 Up" (airing as part of the documentary series "P.O.V."), the seventh installment in a documentary series that began in 1964, comes to American television this week. What had originally been a "glimpse of Britain's future" as embodied...

In the 10 years since Milos Forman championed freedom of blue speech in "The People vs. Larry Flynt," filmmakers have succumbed to periodic fits of porn nostalgia. Thom Fitzgerald's "Beefcake," Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbeto's "Inside Deep Throat" and...