When lists of important filmmakers’ most impressive debut films are published, they rarely contain Ivan Passer’s “Intimate Lighting,” a title that deserves an automatic listing. Given that Passer is ...
Ivan Passer, a pioneering filmmaker in the Czech New Wave, a frequent collaborator with the late Milos Forman and the director of the 1981 film “Cutter’s Way,” has died. He was 86. A friend of the ...
It seems a somehow appropriate beginning for a film in which, famously, nothing very much happens, but where the texture of life, its location in a particular place and time, filters through ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK (AP) — Ivan Passer, a leading filmmaker of the Czech New Wave who with Milos Forman fled Soviet-controlled Prague and ...
ent. A scriptwriter friend had put an idea forward to Prague’s Barrandov Studios, the acceptance of which a few months later came as a surprise to all, and resulted in Passer, better known during the ...
Ivan Passer, a pioneering filmmaker in the Czech New Wave, a frequent collaborator with the late Milos Forman and the director of the 1981 film “Cutter’s Way,” has died. He was 86. A friend of the ...
NEW YORK — Ivan Passer, a leading filmmaker of the Czech New Wave who with Milos Forman fled Soviet-controlled Prague and forged a celebrated career in Hollywood, has died. He was 86. Passer died ...
As Ivan Passer told it, it was by a stroke of chance and act of friendship that he became a film director. It was 1964 in Czechoslovakia, and Passer was making a name writing screenplays. A friend, ...