Episode 590: Milos Forman

A_Freudian_Fan says:

It’s perhaps not surprising that you forgot to mention “Taking Off”, Forman’s first American film. It’s a delightful little movie, very much in the vein of his Czech comedies, but it was such a box-office failure that Forman decided to change course and, since then, shot only “big stories”. Of those I now like “Goya’s Ghosts” the most – it seems the most uncompromising, least concerned with how the audience might react. And Goya is clearly Forman, a spectator to the madness of history more than a active force in it, an artist who has to adapt and make compromises in order to survive and to be able to do what he loves the most.