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6.2 Visions of 8 - The Olympics of Motion Picture Achievement
Documentary, Sports & Fitness
This documentary of the 1972 Summer Olympics, held in Munich, is remarkable for bringing eight of the world's most notable film directors to work on it. They are: Milos Forman, Yuri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch and John Schlesinger. Each director concentrated on events that were of interest to him and filmed in his own style. For instance, Foreman focused on the comic aspect of the games; Lelouch kept his sights on the losers rather than the winners; and Mai Zetterling examined obsession in the form of weightlifting. The movie does not attempt to comprehensively document the '72 Olympics and does not aim for a unified vision. Instead, it showcases the talents of these directors under the inspiration of this most dramatic of gatherings. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
Rating
G
Director
John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling, Milos Forman, Claude Lelouch, Kon Ichikawa, Yuriy Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar
Studio
Bavaria Atelier
Writer
David Hughes
- All the pain - the joy - the triumph - and especially the struggle to reach the pinnacle in mankind's most exacting competition. Music by Henry Mancini. No longer distributed.Brief view of Bruce Jenner at 1:05:58Reply
- Eight very accomplished directors, each given access to the individual event of his choice, produce wonderful footage: the men's 100-meter sprint final, the men's pole vault, the strange obsession of weight lifting, the disappointment of losers, etc., all filmed in very different styles. Not for the who-won-what-where fan, but full of compelling images you won't forget.Reply
- Visions of Eight is an excellent record of the 1972 Munich Olympics, a collage imaginatively recording the event from varied perspectives, each with a different focus.Reply
- What nobody could have anticipated, perhaps, is how similar many of those visions would be.Reply