Given his terrific contribution to cinema, it's surprising that director Milos Forman isn't more of a household name. His relatively under-the-radar profile may stem from his un-auteur-like willingness to refine his style, if not his sensibilities, to best suit his projects. Indeed, what most defines a Forman film, besides a grand scale, may be a lingering otherness, an exquisitely rendered loneliness that belies his status as a US immigrant — perhaps because of the fact that his parents died in Auschwitz when he was just a boy. This touring retrospective, on loan from MoMA, showcases Forman's early Communist-bloc-era Czech films: Competition (1963), Black Peter (1964), Loves of a Blonde (1965), and The Firemen's Ball (1967).