SERIES
December 26-28 at the Trylon
A leading figure of the Czech New Wave, Forman left an increasingly intolerant Soviet Union and brought his unique sensibility to the burgeoning New Hollywood movement. Grounded in a humanistic love of individuals, his films are innately antiauthoritarian. K.J. Relth-Miller, Director of Film Programs at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, will be on hand to introduce the 7 p.m. shows on Friday and Saturday.
(1975, 133m) dir Miloš Forman w/Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman. Charismatic criminal Randle McMurphy (Nicholson) avoids hard labor by being sent to an abusive psychiatric hospital. The new restoration for the fiftieth anniversary brings this indelible portrait of an authoritarian system destroying the individual back into devastating focus. Restored in 2025 by the Academy…
Screenings: December 26 7:00, December 27 9:00, December 28 3:00
(1971, 93m) dir Miloš Forman w/Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Georgia Engel. Lynn and Larry (Carlin, Henry) are searching for their runaway daughter and trying to understand why she would go. During their search they get a new lease on life as they experiment with youth culture. Forman’s empathetic take on Nixon’s America is at once…
Screenings: December 26 9:30, December 27 7:00, December 28 5:30