32° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
NEW HOLLYWOOD II

TAKING OFF

TAKING OFF
by Milos Forman
Country: USA
Year: 1971
Duration: 93'


Lynn and Larry Tyne, a middle class couple, are worried about the frequent disappearances of their daughter Jeannie, and ask help from the Society of Parents of Fleeing Children. The advice they are given: smoke marijuana to understand adolescents better. The Tynes obey and throw a small party with some friends. The first American movie by one of the champions of Czechoslovakian New Wave, who emigrated to the U.S. after the Prague spring was repressed. A cheerful comedy about modernity traps and inter-generational relationships. 

Biography

film director

Milos Forman

FILMOGRAFIA

Laterna magika II (doc., 1960), Konkurs (Il concorso, doc., 1963), Kdyby ty muziky nebyly (cm, doc., 1963), Cerny Petr (L’asso di picche, 1964), Lásky jedné plavovlásky (Gli amori di una bionda, 1965), Dobre placená procházka (tv, 1966), Horí, má panenko (Al fuoco, pompieri!, 1967), I Miss Sonia Henie (cm, 1971), Visions of Eight (Ciò che l’occhio non vede, ep., doc., 1973), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo, 1975), Hair (id., 1979), Ragtime (id., 1981), Amadeus (id., 1984), Valmont (id., 1989), The People vs Larry Flynt (Larry Flynt - Oltre lo scandalo, 1996), Man on the Moon (id., 1999), Goya’s Ghosts (L’ultimo inquisitore, 2006). 

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Miloš Forman
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Miloš Forman, John Guare, Jean-Claude Carrière, John Klein
fotografia/cinematography
Miroslav Ondricek
montaggio/film editing
John Carter
scenografia/production design
Robert Wightman
musica/music
Mike Heron
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Lynn Carlin (Lynn Tyne), Buck Henry (Larry Tyne), Georgia Engel (Margot), Tony Harvey (Tony), Vincent Schiavelli (Mr Schiavelli), Ike e/and Tina Turner (loro stessi/themselves), Linnea Heacock (Jeannie Tyne), Allen Garfield (Norman)
produzione/production
Crown-Hausman/Forman Production
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