This summer, Milos Forman was back in the Czech Republic, two-thirds of the communist Czechoslovakia that he fled in 1968, for the world premiere of "A Walk Worthwhile," his first film in Czech in ...

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France wasn’t the only European country to experience a New Wave in filmmaking in the 1960s. This weekend, the J. Paul Getty Museum is presenting “Czech Film and the Prague Spring,” a series ...

The Czech Republic’s ranking as cinema hothouse is longstanding, particularly since the rise of Milo Forman, Jiří Menzel and the rest of the Czech New Wave in the 1960s, and again during the ...

When film buffs talk “New Wave,” they are most likely referring to the French film critics-turned-directors who invigorated world cinema in the early 1960s, or Germany’s cinematic renaissance in the ...

PRAGUE (AP) - Film director Jan Nemec, a representative of the new wave of Czechoslovak cinema in the 1960s, has died. He was 79. Czech public television, citing his wife, says Nemec died Friday. No ...

As part of the series “Prison Break!: Great Escape Films of the 20th Century,” the University of Chicago’s Doc Films Club is screening One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the famous Jack Nicholson ...

Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, whose American movies “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus” won a deluge of Academy Awards, including best director Oscars, died Saturday. He was 86. Forman ...

Milan Kundera’s first novel, “The Joke,” won him critical praise and set the tone for a robust career in the spring of 1967, debuting just in time to catch the rising tide of freedom of expression ...

Influential Czech director Jiri Menzel, whose 1966 movie "Closely Watched Trains" won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, has died at age 82, his wife, Olga Menzelova, said on her ...

He was prominent in the new wave of Czechoslovak cinema of the 1960s. By Vladimir Kozlov Czech director Jan Nemec, who took a prominent part in the new wave of Czechoslovak cinema in the 1960s, died ...