Living The Firemen’s Ball
by Jim Hoberman
Dir. Milos Forman (1967).
Released at the height of the Prague Spring and immediately banned, Milos Forman’s funniest, subtlest, and most political film focuses on a benefit staged by a group of inept, officious, mildly corrupt volunteer firefighters. It’s impossible to miss the parallel between them and the then leading segment of Czech society.
Fri., March 25, 3 p.m., 2011