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It was the year of 1988,the year of my decision to work and take some important steps in my life.i chose to work at CCM, but it was a bad choice because i knew then i would be comdemned as a lazy bureaucrate just like many technicians and directors who stayed hammered in the darkened desks of CCM.
That year i wached a film directed by Kauffman and i thought it was Milos Forman's Russian tanks did harm things to eastern countries just like Checkoslovakia ,the film was 'insoutenable légèreté de l'être, a film by Philip Kaufman. I wached it at 7eme Art cinema situated right in the heart of Rabat .What i never forgot was the terrible and scary noise that made Russian Tanks when they entered Checkoslovakia,,The same noise of Casablanca tanks in 1982/83 when political troubles were invaded Morocco .
However, Formen would direct crazy eras that eastern countries had had and that reflected his oscared movie"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)' Psychology kills ratioanality as portrayed by Jack Nicklson as a super actor .
Allal EL Alaoui
ecause his parents died in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz, Jan Tomás became an orphan very early on. Later, he studied direction at the School of Cinema in Prague. In his Czechoslovakian films, Cerný Petr (1964), Lásky jedné plavovlásky (1965), and Horí, má panenko (1967), he created his own style of comedy. During the invasion of his country by the troops of the Warsaw pact in the summer of 1968 to stop the Prague spring, he left Europe for the United States. In spite of difficulties, he filmed Taking Off (1971) there and achieved his fame later with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) adapted from the novel of Ken Kesey, which won five Oscars including one for direction. Other important films of Milos Forman were the musical Hair (1979) and, certainly, his biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amadeus (1984), which won eight Oscars.
(IMDB)
Milos Forman
Czech New Wave filmmaker known primarily for the distinctly American films that he made after his immigration to the United States.
Forman grew up in a small town near Prague. Orphaned when his parents, a Jewish professor and a Protestant housewife, died in Nazi concentration camps, he was reared by two uncles.
Director:
* 2000s
* 1990s
* 1980s
* 1970s
* 1960s
1. Goya's Ghosts (2006)
... aka Fantasmas de Goya, Los (Spain: dubbed version)
2. Man on the Moon (1999)
... aka Mondmann, Der (Germany)
3. The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
... aka Larry Flynt (Canada: French title)
4. Valmont (1989)
5. Amadeus (1984)
... aka Amadeus: The Director's Cut (USA: director's cut)
... aka Peter Shaffer's Amadeus (USA: complete title)
... aka Peter Shaffer's Amadeus: Director's Cut (USA: director's cut)
6. Ragtime (1981)
... aka Love and Glory (Philippines: English title)
7. Hair (1979)
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
9. Visions of Eight (1973) (segment "The Decathlon")
... aka München 1972 - 8 berühmte Regisseure sehen die Spiele der XX. Olympiade (West Germany)
... aka Olympiade München 1972 (West Germany: TV title)
... aka Olympic Visions (USA: TV title)
10. Taking Off (1971)
11. I Miss Sonia Henie (1971)
... aka Nedostaje mi Sonja Henie (Yugoslavia: Serbian title)
12. Horí, má panenko (1967)
... aka Al fuoco pompieri! (Italy: alternative title)
... aka Fuoco, ragazza mia (Italy)
... aka Hoří, má panenko (Czechoslovakia: Czech title)
... aka Like a House on Fire
... aka The Fireman's Ball (UK)
... aka The Firemen's Ball (USA)
... aka The Firemen's Ball and Lottery (USA: DVD title)
13. Dobre placená procházka (1966) (TV)
... aka A Well-Paid Walk (International: English title: literal title)
14. Lásky jedné plavovlásky (1965)
... aka A Blonde in Love
... aka The Loves of a Blonde (USA)
15. Cerný Petr (1964)
... aka Černý Petr (Czechoslovakia: Czech title)
... aka Black Peter (USA)
... aka Peter and Pavla (International: English title)
16. Kdyby ty muziky nebyly (1963)
... aka If It Weren't for Music
... aka If There Were No Music
... aka The Glory of the Brass Bands
... aka Why Do We Need All the Brass Bands? (USA)
17. Konkurs (1963)
... aka Audition (USA)
... aka Competition (USA)
... aka Talent Competition (International: English title)
18. Laterna magika II (1960)
... aka Magic Lantern II (International: English title)
Writer:
* 2000s
* 1980s
* 1970s
* 1960s
* 1950s
1. Goya's Ghosts (2006) (written by)
... aka Fantasmas de Goya, Los (Spain: dubbed version)
2. Valmont (1989)
3. Mâle du siècle, Le (1975) (idea)
... aka Male of the Century
4. Taking Off (1971)
5. Pince à ongles, La (1969)
... aka The Nail Clippers (UK)
6. Horí, má panenko (1967) (screenplay)
... aka Al fuoco pompieri! (Italy: alternative title)
... aka Fuoco, ragazza mia (Italy)
... aka Hoří, má panenko (Czechoslovakia: Czech title)
... aka Like a House on Fire
... aka The Fireman's Ball (UK)
... aka The Firemen's Ball (USA)
... aka The Firemen's Ball and Lottery (USA: DVD title)
7. Lásky jedné plavovlásky (1965) (screenplay) (story)
... aka A Blonde in Love
... aka The Loves of a Blonde (USA)
8. Cerný Petr (1964)
... aka Černý Petr (Czechoslovakia: Czech title)
... aka Black Peter (USA)
... aka Peter and Pavla (International: English title)
9. Kdyby ty muziky nebyly (1963)
... aka If It Weren't for Music
... aka If There Were No Music
... aka The Glory of the Brass Bands
... aka Why Do We Need All the Brass Bands? (USA)
10. Konkurs (1963)
... aka Audition (USA)
... aka Competition (USA)
... aka Talent Competition (International: English title)
11. Laterna magika II (1960)
... aka Magic Lantern II (International: English title)
12. Stenata (1957)
13. Nechte to na mne (1955)
... aka Leave It to Me (International: English title)
Personal Quotes
"I know this sounds so little, and not serious enough, but I believe that I have to have fun. We all have to have fun - me, the actors, the cameraman, everybody should feel as if we are making a home movie, because that is the only way to open the film to a certain kind of lightness. If everybody involved feels the seriousness, the heavy weight of money being stamped on movies, it somehow influences the result in a way which is anesthizing to life."
"The theatre is different from the movies, which is very right for the theatre, because you know when the curtain goes up, that nothing is real, that everything is stylized. The tree is not a real tree, it's stylized. The language is stylized and must be stylized because you don't have editing. You have to write lines so that you can communicate to the audience everything so they will understand. It's stylized for that purpose. But film is very different because you see that everything is real. The trees are real, the buildings are real, the sky is real, so people better be real too and not stylized like on the stage."
"Who doesn't have sympathy for the underdog? Of course, I do. We create institutions, governments and schools to help us live, but every institution has a tendency, after a while, to behave not as if they should be serving you, but that you should be serving them. That's when the individual gets in conflict, because we are paying these institutions with our taxes, we are paying them to serve us and help us live, and not to tell us how to live and dominate us. I wouldn't say it's the underdog but it's always the conflict within the individual and the institutions. Instead of underdogs, let's talk about dogs. If you corner a dog, he's ready to bite you. That's the reality. Otherwise he's a loveable, wonderful creature. If you corner him, he can behave abominably. And so does a human being. When an individual is cornered by society or an institution, well, he can behave abominably and I can't really hide it or glorify it. Neither. It's just a fact of life."
"Director is little bit of everything, little bit of the writer, little bit of an actor, little bit of an editor, little bit of a costume designer. Good director is the director who chooses for this profession people who are better than he is. Yes, I can write, but I have to have a writer who is a better writer than I am, I have to have actors who are better actors than I am, I have to have sound engineers who are better sound engineer than I am, you know. It's a strange profession, ....visually it's your vision."
"Some scenes have to be done exactly as they are written in the scripts because otherwise the pace would suffer, like that. But then there are scenes which allow a space for improvisation and then I like to encourage improvisation, but you have to always have exact script because 90% of improvisation is usually very boring, unusable. But the 10% or even less, even if you have 1%, you can get such a gem of unrepeatable moments of films that it's worth it to try to improvise. But if improvisation doesn't work you have to have a solid script to go back to."
On Valmont (1989): "We were in the middle of our script already when they announced their version, based on the play. Of course we immediately learned they were rushing into it very fast. With the concept I had, we all knew I couldn't be faster. We couldn't beat them. So, I was expecting a call from the producers saying 'Sorry, Milos, we can't take the risk.' The call came. They asked me, 'Does it really bother you that another film is going to be made?' I said of course not. And I felt like, god, Hollywood is still crazy. That's good."
On his twin sons: "Originally we were going to name the baby Andy, because I was doing a film about Andy Kaufman. Then we learned we were having twins, and we said, OK, it will be Andy and Tony, after Andy's famous character, Tony Clifton. But then my son's wife gave birth to a daughter, and they named her Toni. I couldn't have a Tony, so we chose Jim. When you choose names for your children, you want to name them after somebody you like very much, so the name will always ring beautifully in your ears. And that was how I felt about Jim Carrey."
"Give me $100,000 and I will make the film for $100,000. Give me $10m and I will make the film for $10m. Give me $100m and I will spend it."
Milos FORMAN présidera la 7éme édition du Festival du Film de Marrakech
Rabat : Le réalisateur d'origine tchèque Milos Forman présidera la 7e édition du Festival international du film de Marrakech, qui se tiendra du 7 au 15 décembre 2007, a annoncé vendredi le comité d'organisation.
Milos FORMAN
Milos FORMAN
Détenteur de deux Oscars du meilleur réalisateur pour "Amadeus" et "Volau-dessus d'un nid de coucou", Milos Forman présidera le jury quiremettra notamment l'Etoile d'or, le grand prix décerné dans la villedu Sud marocain.
L'Egypte, qui fête les cent ans de soncinéma, sera à l'honneur pour l'édition 2007 du Festival, avec unequarantaine de films projetés en présence d'acteurs égyptiens.
La sélection officielle de la 7e édition sera révélée à la mi-novembre 2007.
La précédente édition, en décembre 2006, s'était déroulée sous la houlette du cinéaste Roman Polanski avec 15 longs métrages de 14 nationalités en compétition pour l'Etoile d'or.
Le portail du Festival
Miloš Forman ?
Jan Tomáš Forman (18 février 1932 - ), plus connu sous le nom Miloš Forman un réalisateur de cinéma et acteur tchèque.
Biographie
Il est né à Čáslav (Tchécoslovaquie) et devient orphelin, ses parents sont déportés à Auschwitz et y meurent.
Il est élevé avec ses frères par le reste de sa famille et étudie le cinéma à l'École du cinéma de Prague. Il réalise des courts métrages et comédies, puis son premier long métrage, L'as de pique (1963) qui le fait connaître au-delà des frontières de son pays.
En 1968, à la suite de la répression du Printemps de Prague, il émigre aux États-Unis. Il réalise d'abord une comédie sociale Taking Off, puis change totalement avec Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou qui lui apporte la renommée internationale et l'Oscar du meilleur film, qu'il remporte à nouveau en 1985 pour Amadeus.
Il continue les biographies en réalisant Larry Flynt (1996) et Man on the Moon (1999), inspiré de la vie du comique américain Andy Kaufman.
Filmographie
les titres originaux en tchèque sont marqués (cs:); en anglais (en:)
* 1963 : L'Audition (cs:Konkurs)
* 1963 : S'il n'y avait pas de guinguettes (cs:Kdyby ty muziky nebyly)
* 1963 : L'As de pique (cs:Cerný Petr)
* 1965 : Les Amours d'une blonde (cs:Lásky jedné plavovlásky)
* 1967 : Au feu, les pompiers ! (cs:Horí, má panenko)
* 1971 : Taking Off
* 1971 : I Miss Sonia Henie
* 1973 : Visions of Eight, segment Le Decathlon
* 1975 : Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou (en:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
* 1979 : Hair
* 1981 : Ragtime
* 1984 : Amadeus
* 1989 : Valmont
* 1996 : Larry Flint
* 1999 : Man on the Moon
* 2006 : Goya's Ghosts
Joue un rôle clef dans le film "La brûlure" (The heatburn), de Mike Nichols, en 1986.
MAP et autre ( limage.com)
