Editing Miloš Forman (section)

=== 1964–1971 ===
''[[Black Peter (film)|Black Peter]]'' is one of the first and most representative films of the [[Czechoslovak New Wave]]. It won the [[Golden Leopard]] award at the [[Locarno International Film Festival]]. It covers the first few days in the working life of a Czech teenager. In Czechoslovakia in 1964, the aimless Petr (Ladislav Jakim) starts work as a security guard in a busy self-service supermarket; unfortunately, he is so lacking in confidence that even when he sees shoplifters, he cannot bring himself to confront them. He is similarly tongue-tied with the lovely Asa (Pavla Martínková) and during the lectures about personal responsibility and the dignity of labor that his blustering father (Jan Vostrčil) delivers at home. ''[[Loves of a Blonde]]'' is one of the best–known movies of the [[Czechoslovak New Wave]], and won awards at the [[Venice Film Festival|Venice]] and [[Locarno International Film Festival|Locarno]] film festivals. It was also nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]] in 1967.<ref name="Oscars1967">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1967 |title=The 39th Academy Awards (1967) Nominees and Winners |access-date=9 November 2011|work=oscars.org}}</ref>

In 1967, he directed ''[[The Firemen's Ball]]'' an original Czechoslovak–Italian co-production; this was Forman's first [[color film]]. It is one of the best–known movies of the Czechoslovak New Wave. On the face of it a naturalistic representation of an ill-fated social event in a provincial town, the film has been seen by both film scholars and the then-authorities in Czechoslovakia as a biting satire on East European Communism, which resulted in it being banned for many years in Forman's home country.<ref name="VarietyObit"/> The Czech term ''zhasnout'' (''to switch lights off''), associated with petty theft in the film, was used to describe the large-scale [[asset stripping]] that occurred in the country during the 1990s.<ref name="Grapevine"/> It was nominated for the [[Academy Award]] for [[List of submissions to the 41st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Film]].<ref name="Oscars1969">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1969 |title=The 41st Academy Awards (1969) Nominees and Winners |access-date=15 November 2011|work=oscars.org}}</ref>

<blockquote>"When [[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia|Soviet tanks rumbled into Prague in August 1968]], Forman was in Paris negotiating for the production of ''[[Taking Off (film)|Taking Off]]'' (1971), his first American film. Claiming that he was out of the country illegally, his Czech studio fired him, forcing Forman to emigrate to New York"<ref name="pbs/AmMasters//597">{{cite web |last1=cofresi |first1=diana |title=Milos Forman ~ About Milos Forman |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/milos-forman-about-milos-forman/597/ |website=American Masters |publisher=PBS |access-date=23 October 2023 |date=12 December 2003}}</ref></blockquote>

The first movie Forman made in the United States, ''[[Taking Off (film)|Taking Off]]'', shared the [[Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)|Grand Prix]] (ex aequo)(second prize)<ref name="festival-cannes/taking-off">{{cite web |title=TAKING OFF |url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/taking-off/ |website=Festival de Cannes |access-date=22 October 2023}}</ref> with ''[[Johnny Got His Gun (film)|Johnny Got His Gun]]'' at the [[1971 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2401/year/1971.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Taking Off |access-date=2009-04-13|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> The film starred [[Lynn Carlin]] and [[Buck Henry]], and also featured, as Jeannie, Linnea Heacock, discovered, with friends, in [[Washington Square Park]].<ref name="cinema.wisc.edu/2015/taking-forman">{{cite web |last1=Horwitz |first1=Jonah |title=TAKING OFF: Forman's First American Film (and Last Czech Film ?) |url=https://cinema.wisc.edu/blog/2015/04/01/taking-formans-first-american-film-and-last-czech-film |website=Cinematheque |publisher=cinema.wisc.edu |access-date=23 October 2023 |quote=This essay on Miloš Forman's Taking Off (1971) was written by Jonah Horwitz, Ph.D Candidate in the Communication Arts Department at UW Madison. A 35mm print of Taking Off, part of our "Universal '71" series, will screen on Sunday, April 5, at 2 p.m., in the Chazen Museum of Art.}}</ref> It was critically panned and left Forman struggling to find work.<ref name="CitySpy2">{{cite web|url=https://cz.cityspy.network/prague/features/story-famed-czech-director-milos-forman-part-ii/|title=The Story of Famed Czech Director Miloš Forman (Part II)|date=6 September 2017|publisher=CitySpy|access-date=14 April 2018}}</ref> Forman later said that it did so poorly he ended up owing the studio $500.<ref name="NYTimes"/>