1. Ivan Passer obituary | Movies | The Guardian
Jan 17, 2020 · Ivan Passer, who has died aged 86, was one of the new wave of Czech film directors who emerged during the social and cultural democratisation of the mid-60s.
Director who was part of the ‘Czech film miracle’ in the 1960s but made his masterpieces in Hollywood
2. Milos Forman, Ivan Passer and their 73-year friendship
Dec 13, 2019 · Forman and Passer had been friends since childhood, met up again at the Prague Film Academy and then began film careers.
The friendship between Czech New Wave pioneers Milos Forman and Ivan Passer was crucial in the life of the man who directed 'Amadeus' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.’
3. Director Ivan Passer Shares His Stories - Chapman Blogs
Feb 2, 2017 · Recently I attended an “intimate event” with the legendary director Ivan Passer of Intimate Lighting. Passer has lived here over 40 years. The ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Pavel Jech, our film division chair, recently had the opportunity to spend some time with someone whose work he has admired for quite some time. Moving to Southern California has meant meeting some Czech people that I normally did not see very often in Prague. Recently I attended an “intimate event” with the
4. Behind the story: Learning the truth about director Milos Forman's ...
Dec 13, 2019 · My interest in writing about Ivan Passer and Milos Forman's escape from Czechoslovakia goes back more than 25 years, since almost the ...
The great filmmaker Milos Forman never spoke about his defection. In fact, he never called it a defection.
5. Ivan Passer's Way - Awardsdaily
Ivan Passer was a craftsman and an artisan. His journey ended on January 9, 2020. He was 86 years old.
In the world of cinema, journeyman filmmakers are often thought of as those who work reliably and consistently but seldom distinguish themselves. But the literal definition reads as a more positive descriptor. “a craftsman, artisan, etc, who is qualified to work at his trade in the employment of another.” Ivan Passer would doubtless be proud to be known as a…
6. Ivan Passer, a leading Czech New Wave filmmaker, dies at 86 | AP News
Jan 10, 2020 · Passer died Thursday in Reno, Nevada, said a friend of the family, Amina Johns. An attorney for Passer, Rodney Sumpter, said Passer had been ...
NEW YORK (AP) — 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.
7. Ivan Passer, Czech New Wave Pioneer and 'Cutter's Way' Director ...
Jan 10, 2020 · Ivan Passer, Czech New Wave Pioneer and 'Cutter's Way' Director, Dies at 86. Brian Welk. Fri, January 10, 2020 at 10:53 AM PST.
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 family, Amina Johns, told the Associated Press (via The Washington Post) that Passer died Thursday in Reno, Nevada. Rodney Sumpter, an attorney for Passer, said the director had been dealing with pulmonary issues.Passer got his start in filmmaking as a co-writer on some of Forman’s films in the ’60s, and he directed his first feature “Intimate Lighting” in 1965. He and Forman were students along with Václav Havel and Jerzy Skolimowski at a boarding school in Prague after WWII. They would later escape Prague to Hollywood just as Russian tanks began invading the region in 1969.Also Read: Edd Byrnes, 'Grease' and '77 Sunset Strip' Star, Dies at 87Ivan Passer (left) and Milos Forman at an Academy salute to Forman in 2004. (Photo by Giulio Marcocchi/Getty Images)Once in America, Passer directed several English language films and got the chance to work with some of the business’ top stars. He’s perhaps best known for the crime and noir film “Cutter’s Way” from 1981, which starred John Heard and Jeff Bridges in a story about a man who witnesses a friend dumping a dead body and suspects the killer to be one of his friends.He’d also direct Michael Caine and Cybill Shepherd in “Silver Bears,” Omar Sharif and Karen Black in “Crime and Passion” and Carroll O’Connor and Ernest Borgnine in “Law an...
8. Interview: Ivan Passer (2) - Camera Lucida
To a certain degree, the Karlovy Vary International film festival was an ideal place to interview Ivan Passer. Held annually in July in the pretty Czech ...
See AlsoCast From The 鱷潭群英會 (1976)Lucidno Interview: Ivan Passer To a certain degree, the Karlovy Vary International film festival was an ideal place to interview Ivan Passer. Held annually...
9. Ivan Passer, a leading Czech New Wave filmmaker, dies at 86 - Yahoo
Jan 10, 2020 · Passer and Forman met as boys at a boarding school in Czechoslovakia in the years after World War II. (Their classmates included the future ...
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. Passer died Thursday in Reno, Nevada, said a friend of the family, Amina Johns. An attorney for Passer, Rodney Sumpter, said Passer had been dealing with pulmonary issues.
10. Ivan Passer — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Passer was born in Prague, the son of Marianna (Mandelick) and Alois Passer. ... He was 86 years old. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ivan ...
Ivan Passer (10 July 1933 – 9 January 2020) was a Czech film director and screenwriter, best known for his involvement in the Czechoslovak New Wave and for directing American films such as Born to Win (1971), Cutter's Way (1981) and Stalin (1992). Passer was born in Prague, the son of Marianna (Mandelick) and Alois Passer. Passer attended King George boarding school in Poděbrady with future filmmakers Miloš Forman, Jerzy Skolimowski and Paul Fierlinger and statesman Václav Havel. He then studied at FAMU in Prague, but did not finish the course. He began his career as an assistant director on Ladislav Helge's Velká samota. Later he collaborated with his friend Forman on all of Forman's Czech films, including Loves of a Blonde (1965) and The Firemen's Ball (1967), both of which Passer co-wrote and which were nominated for Academy Awards. He introduced Forman to cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček whom he knew from Velká samota. He then directed his first feature, Intimate Lighting, which was released in 1965 and is considered by some to be Passer's masterpiece. In 1969, after the Warsaw Pact invasion, Passer and Forman left Czechoslovakia together. Both proceeded to the United States, with Forman becoming an Academy Award-winning filmmaker. Passer went on to make several prominent American films such as Born to Win (1971), a junkie drama starring George Segal and Karen Black, and Cutter's Way (1981), a dramatic thriller starring Jeff Bridges and John Heard. Though best known...
11. Intimate Lighting (Intimní osvetlení)- Ivan Passer, 1965
Aug 14, 2020 · But it also features the melancholic aspect of knowing that your best years ... And while they might not seem significant, it's the little things ...
As many of you already know, 2020 has been the year of a number of misfortunes that have affected all of us. One of which was the passing of Ivan Passer, a prominent figure that helped establish th…
12. Ivan Passer, Noted Czech Director Who Went to Hollywood, Is Dead at ...
Jan 15, 2020 · ... years of Bat Masterson, the gunfighter turned journalist. ... He is survived by his wife, Anne Frances Passer, and a son from his first marriage, ...
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14. Tag Archives: Ivan Passer - Up On The Shelf
Feb 13, 2024 · So, we've come to the end of this years-long Faerie Tale Theatre retrospective, my friends. It's been quite a ride.
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15. The Deuce Notebook: Born to Win in Duffy Square - MUBI
Jun 21, 2022 · Ivan Passer filmed Born to Win in 1971, just two years after ... and 45th Streets, on November 25, 1895. The Olympia lasted only three ...
A tour of Ivan Passer’s last-ditch New York, where George Segal hustles his way to nowhere.
