“Taking Off” is barely a footnote in the renowned career of Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, who won the Oscar for 1975’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” as well as 1984’s “Amadeus.” ...

When Milos Forman set out to make his first American movie, ... Frustrated after producer Carlo Ponti rejected, of all things, an adaptation of Kafka’s Amerika, Forman made 1971’s Taking Off.

Miloš Forman came of age as a filmmaker under the watchful eyes of the Soviets in ... He made his American debut in 1970 with “Taking Off,” a dark comedy about a teenage girl who runs away ...

Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, ... After his first U.S. film, 1969's "Taking Off," flopped, Forman didn't get a chance to direct a major feature again for five years.

Milos Forman, who died on April 14 at the age of 86, ... Rather, I think of the opening scene from his lesser-known comedy, “Taking Off” (1971): a series of static shots of young women, ...

Milos Forman has worked with larger-than-life performers such as Jack Nicholson in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Jim Carrey in "Man on the Moon." ...

Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, whose American movies “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus” won a deluge of Academy Awards, including best director Oscars, died Saturday. He was 86.

Milos Forman, winner of Best Director Oscars for both One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, has died, Czech press agency CTK reported. The Czech-born filmmaker, who left his native ...

Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, ... After his first U.S. film, 1969’s “Taking Off,” flopped, Forman didn’t get a chance to direct a major feature again for five years.

Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, whose American movies “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus” won a deluge of Academy Awards, including best director Oscars, died Saturday. He was 86.