Czech-born director Milos Forman understood the American experience
Director Milos Forman was shaped by European sensibilities, but his films were shrewd and intimate portraits of the yearnings, transgressions, politics, sexual fascinations, rebelliousness and complicated conformities that soothed, rattled and challenged the American spirit.
Born in the former Czechoslovakia, Forman, who died Friday in Connecticut, looked at America, notably in films like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "The People vs. Larry Flynt" and "Hair" with an eye that was at once empathetic, detached and fiercely curious. He led us through the hallways of our insane asylums, the passions and
