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The Ghost of Munich

The Prague Post reports on a potentially intriguing film collaboration between two of the elder statesmen of Czech culture: playwright and former president Václav Havel and director Miloš Forman. Inspired by (as opposed to based on) the novel The Ghost of Munich by French journalist Georges-Marc Benamou, it's an account of the British and [...]

The Firemen’s Ball

I'm just taking a quick break from Sarajevo Film Festival reviews to recommend this exhaustive, heavily illustrated and multi-authored discussion on Miloš Forman's The Firemen's Ball (Hoří, má panenko!, 1967) in the Film of the Month Club blog. It's in several sections, so here are quick links: Introduction (by Marilyn Ferdinand) 'I Laugh at [...]