"Director: Milos Forman"

• Black Peter | DVD | (09/07/2018) from £11.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Presented from a brand new 4K restoration of the film from original materials, Second Run presents the debut feature film of the late, great Czech filmmaker Milos Forman. Black Peter is a wonderfully wry and provocative comedy about a young man growing up in a 1960s Czech provincial town. Taking the Best Film prize at the 1964 Locarno Film Festival, this early masterpiece of the emerging Czech New Wave brought to the screen something that Czechoslovak filmgoers weren t used to an authentic testimony about the lives of young people. Forman went on to become the most successful of all his Czech contemporaries, moving to America where he had huge international hits with films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest and Amadeus works that won him Best Director Academy Awards in 1976 and 1985 respectively. Forman made many important American films, but stayed true to his Czech roots. Black Peter, along with his other early works (which include his classic 1965 film A Blonde in Love), perfectly capture the authenticity and atmosphere of life in the eastern bloc during the early 60s, and the feelings of Czech teenagers in youthful rebellion on the cusp of the Prague Spring. DVD SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Black Peter ( erný Petr, 1964) presented from a brand new 4K restoration of the film from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive. Life As It Is: Milos Forman on his Czech films: Part one of an archival film-by-film interview, newly edited for this release with never-before-seen footage. All-new audio commentary by film historian Michael Brooke Trailer Booklet featuring new writing on the film by an author, academic and programmer Jonathan Owen New and improved English subtitle translation. Region free Original soundtrack in 2.0 Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio

• The People Vs Larry Flynt | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £5.63   |  Saving you £0.36 (6.39%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An early school drop out Flynt was nobody's hero - least of all when he pushed American tolerance to the limit with his raunchy porn magazine Hustler. But Flynt was to become an unlikely champion when he took his crusade for freedom of speech all the way to the Supreme Court and won! This film is a story that encompasses love loss and a heck of a lot of fun!

• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Steelbook--Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Features explanations of themes motifs and symbols analyses of characters and quotes plot summaries and analysis an exploration of historical context and facts and potential essay topics.

• The Fireman's Ball | DVD | (17/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In their small-town meeting hall a maladroit committee of volunteer firefighters holds a ball to celebrate the retirement of one of their own but thanks to poor planning and lack of leadership the evening quickly devolves into a catastrophe. Nobody can prevent the lottery prizes from being stolen out from under the very noses of those guarding them. A beauty contest turns into an embarrassing farce and the brigade can't even respond properly to a real fire next door.

• Audition / Talent Show (Konkurs) | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £11.45   |  Saving you £1.54 (13.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Part one cuts between rehearsals/performance by rival brass bands and the competing attraction of a cross-country motorbike race. Part Two anticipates the audition scenes in Taking Off as a throng of female singers try out for a part in a show. Though originally made as separate featurettes the two episodes form a plausible entity being so similar stylistically and thematically. The approach is documentary with some fictional elements gently interpolated - in the first the defection of two youthful trombonists in the second the lightly sketched backgrounds of two of the singers. Extremely assured for an apprentice work this displays the same mix of shrewdness and tenderness that marked all Forman's early films. But as with many East European movies of this era one suspects that a political allegory is concealed at the heart of it all.

• Taking Off - DVD | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Now available for the first time on DVD in the UK, Taking Off is acclaimed director Milos Forman’s (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus) first US feature. This 1971 comedy-drama stars Lynn Carlin and Buck Henry as middle-class New York suburbanites, whose teenage daughter runs away from home when she gets in trouble with her parents. In the process of trying to unravel the mystery of the girl's whereabouts, the couple rediscovers their own lives. This funny, alternative coming-of-age tale features exclusive musical appearances from Tina & Ike Turner, Carly Simon and actress Kathy Bates (as ‘Bobo’ Bates). This DVD edition features a restored version of the film along with the following extras: Trailer Before Taking Off: Milos Forman’s Road To America (30 minute documentary) Photo Gallery

• The People Vs Larry Flynt | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £3.92   |  Saving you £9.07 (231.38%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Leave it to Czech director Milos Forman (One Flew Over to Cuckoo's Nest) to make the most entertaining and offbeat celebration of the American Constitution ever filmed. You think the First Amendment was designed to protect Americans from offensive speech? Think again. The real glory of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights--as brought to life in this splendidly quirky and alternately reverent and irreverent comedy--is that it ensures everyone's freedom by protecting a whole range of expression, from the banal to the outrageous. Scripted by the writers of Ed Wood (another affectionately twisted biography of a disreputably eccentric entertainment figure), The People vs. Larry Flynt applies a similar sort of exaggerated and telescoped editorial-cartoon sensibility to the wild life and times of Hustler skin-magazine publisher Larry Flynt. It's the great (and fictionalised-but-true) American story of how smut-peddler Flynt--the poor man's redneck Hugh Hefner--ended up appealing a libel case (brought by televangelist Jerry Falwell) to the Supreme Court and winning a major legal victory that affects all Americans. Terrific performances by Woody Harrelson as Flynt, grunge-star-turned-glamour-puss Courtney Love as his wife Althea, and Edward Norton as their lawyer (a composite character). --Jim Emerson

• Taking Off | Blu Ray | (07/11/2011) from £18.88   |  Saving you £1.11 (5.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Now available for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK, Taking Off is acclaimed director Milos Forman’s (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus) first US feature. This 1971 comedy-drama stars Lynn Carlin and Buck Henry as middle-class New York suburbanites, whose teenage daughter runs away from home when she gets in trouble with her parents. In the process of trying to unravel the mystery of the girl's whereabouts, the couple rediscover their own lives. This funny, alternative coming-of-age tale features exclusive musical appearances from Tina & Ike Turner, Carly Simon and actress Kathy Bates (as ‘Bobo’ Bates). This Blu-ray edition features a brand new HD restoration of the film along with the following extras: * Trailer * Before Taking Off: Milos Forman’s Road To America (30 minute documentary) * Photo Gallery

• Amadeus - Classic Collection | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Amadeus triumphs as gripping human drama sumptuous period epic glorious celebration of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - and as the winner of eight 1984 Academy Awards including Best Picture (produced by Saul Zaentz) Actor (F. Murray Abraham) Director (Milos Forman) and Adapted Screenplay (Peter Shaffer). Now in a revitalized digital transfer and including more than 20 minutes of extra scenes not seen on its original release Amadeus remains a screen triumph! Amadeus won 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture Actor Director and Adapted Screenplay. About as close to perfection as movies get. USA Today