#900: VARIOUS: 100 Years Of Olympic Films (1912-2012)

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VARIOUS
100 Years Of Olympic Films [1912-2012]
Spine #900
Blu-ray


Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912-2012 is the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee. The documentaries collected here cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of "Faster, Higher, Stronger": Jesse Ownes shattering world records on the track in 1936 Berlin, Jean-Claude Killy dominating the Grenoble slopes in 1968, Joan Benoit breaking away to win the Games' first women's marathon in Los Angeles in 1984. In addition to the impressive ten-feature contribution of Bud Greenspan, this stirring collective chronicle of triumph and defeat includes such documentary landmarks as Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia and Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad, along with captivating lesser-known works by major directors like Claude Lelouch, Carlos Saura, and Miloš Forman. It also offers a fascinating glimpse of the development of film itself, and of the technological progress that has brought viewers ever closer to the action. Traversing continents and decades, reflecting the social, cultural, and political changes that have shaped our recent history, this remarkable movie marathon showcases a hundred years of human endeavor.

6,253 minutes
Black & White/Color
Criterion Release 2017
The Films
  1. Stockholm 1912 / Games of the V Olympiad / The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 / Dir. Adrian Wood (2016) / Original newsreel prod. Siegmund Popert / 2016/ 170 minutes / Black & White / Silent with English intertitles / 1:33:1 aspect ratio
  2. Chamonix 1924 / I Olympic Winter Games / The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924 / Dir. Jean de Rovera / 1924 / 37 minutes / Black & White / Silent with English intertitles / 1:33:1 aspect ratio // Paris 1924 / Games of the VIII Olympiad / The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece / Dir. Jean de Rovera / 1924 / 8 minutes / Black & White / Silent with English intertitles / 1:33:1 aspect ratio // The Olympic Games in Paris 1924 / Dir. Jean de Rovera / 1924 / 174 minutes / Black & White / Silent with English intertitles / 1:33:1 aspect ratio
  3. St. Moritz 1928 / II Olympic Winter Games / The White Stadium (Das Weisse Stadion) / Dir. Arnold Fanck, Othmar Gurtner / 1928 / 124 minutes / Black & White / Silent with German and French intertitles and English subtitles / 1:33:1 aspect ratio
  4. Amsterdam 1928 / Games of the IX Olympiad / The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam (La IX Olimpiade ad Amsterdam) Dir. unknown / 1928 / 251 minutes / Black & White / Silent with Italian intertitles and English subtitles / 1:33:1 aspect ratio
  5. Amsterdam 1928 / Games of the IX Olympiad / The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 (De Olympische spelen — Amsterdam 1928) / Dir. Wilhelm Prager / Supervisor: Jules Perel / 1928 / 192 minutes / Black & White / Silent with Dutch intertitles and English subtitles / 1:33:1 aspect ratio
  6. Garmisch-Partenkirchen / IV Olympic Winter Games / Youth of the World (Jugend der Welt) Dir. Carl Junghans / 1936 / 38 minutes / Black & White / Monaural / in German with English subtitles / 1:33:1 aspect ratio // Berlin 1936 / Games of the XI Olympiad / Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (Olympia — Fest der Voelker) Dir. Leni Riefenstahl / 127 minutes / Black & White / Monaural / in German with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio // Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (Olympia — Fest der Schoenheit) / 1938 / 103 minutes / Black & White / Monaural / in German with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio
  7. St. Moritz 1948 / V Olympic Winter Games / Fight Without Hate (Combat sans haine) / Dir. André Michel / 1948 / 91 minutes / Black & White / Monaural / in French with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio // London 1948 / Games of the XIV Olympiad / XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport / Dir. Castleton Knight / 1948 / 138 minutes / Color / Monaural / 1:37:1 aspect ratio
  8. Oslo 1952 / VI Olympic Winter Games (De VI Olympiske vinterleker Oslo 1952) / Dir. Tancred Ibsen / 1952 / 103 minutes / Black & White / Monaural / in Norwegian with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio
  9. Helsinki 1952 / Games of the XV Olympiad / Where the World Meets (Maailmat kohtaavat — XV Olympiakisat Helsingissä 1952) / Dir. Hannu Leminen / 1952 / 101 minutes / Black & White / Monaural / in Finnish with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio // Gold and Glory (Kultaa ja kunniaa) Dir. Hannu Leminen / 1953 / 97 minutes / Black & White / Monaural / in Finnish with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio // Memories of the Olympic Summer of 1952 (Muistojen kisakesä) / Dir. unknown / 1954 / 50 minutes / Color / Monaural / in Finnish with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio
  10. Cortina d’Ampezzo 1956 / VII Olympic Winter Games / White Vertigo (Vertigine bianca) / Dir. Giorgio Ferroni / 1956 / 96 minutes / Color / Monaural / in Italian with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio
  11. Melbourne/Stockholm / Games of the XVI Olympiad / Olympic Games, 1956 / Dir. Peter Whitchurch / 1956 / 60 minutes / Color / Monaural / 1:37:1 aspect ratio // The Melbourne Rendez-vous (Rendez-vous à Melbourne) / Dir. René Lucot / 1957 / 106 minutes / Color / Monaural / in French with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio // Alain Mimoun / Dir. Louis Gueguen / 1959 / 24 minutes / Black & White / Monaural / in French with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio // The Horse in Focus (Hästen i centrum) / Dir. unknown / 1956 / 16 minutes / Color / Monaural / in Swedish with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio
  12. Squaw Valley 1960 / VIII Olympic Winter Games / People, Hopes, Medals (Menschen, Hoffnungen, Medaillen) / Dir. Heribert Meisel / 1960 / 93 minutes / Color / Monaural / in German with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio // Rome 1960 / Games of the XVII Olympiad / The Grand Olympics (La grande Olimpiade) / Dir. Romolo Marcellini / 1961 / 147 minutes / Color / Monaural / In Italian with English subtitles / 1:66:1 aspect ratio
  13. Innsbruck 1964 / IX Olympic Winter Games / IX Olympic Winter Games, Innbruck 1964 (IX Olympische Winterspiele Innsbruck 1964) / Dir. Theo Hörmann / 1964 / 90 minutes / Color / Monaural / In German with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio
  14. Tokyo 1964 / Games of the XVIII Olympiad / Tokyo Olympiad (Tokyo Orinpikku) / Dir. Kon Ichikawa / 1965 / 170 minutes / Color / Monaural / In Japanese with English subtitles / 2:39:1 aspect ratio [see also Spine #155]
  15. Tokyo 1964 / Games of the XVIII Olympiad / Sensation of the Century (Seiki no kando) / Prod. Taguchi Suketaro / Supervisor: Nobumasa Kawamoto / 1966 / 156 minutes / Color / Monaural / in Japanese with English subtitles / 2:39:1 aspect ratio
  16. Grenoble 1968 / X Olympic Winter Games / 13 Days in France (13 jours en France) / Dirs. Claude Lelouch, François Reichenbach / 1968 / 112 minutes / Color / Monaural / in French with English subtitles / 1:66:1 aspect ratio // Snows of Grenoble (Neiges de Grenoble) Dirs. Jacques Ertaud, Jean-Jacques Languepin / 1968 / 97 minutes / Color / Monaural / in French with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio
  17. Mexico City 1968 / Games of the XIX Olympiad / The Olympics in Mexico (Olimpiada en México) / Dir. Alberto Isaac / 1969 / 160 minutes / Color / Monaural / in Spanish with English subtitles / 2:39:1 aspect ratio
  18. Sapporo 1972 / XI Olympic Winter Games / Sapporo Winter Olympics (Sapporo Orinpikku) / Dir. Masahiro Shinoda / 1972 / 167 minutes / Color / Monaural / in Japanese with English subtitles / 2:39:1 aspect ratio // Munich 1972 / Games of the XX Olympiad / Visions of Eight / Dirs. Miloš Forman, Ichikawa, Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling / 1973 / 110 minutes / Color / Monaural / 1:85:1 aspect ratio [see also Spine #1081]
  19. Innsbruck 1976 / XII Olympic Winter Games / White Rock / Dir. Tony Maylam / 1977 / 77 minutes / Color / Stereo / 2:39:1 aspect ratio // Montreal 1976 / Games of the XXI Olympiad / Games of the XXI Olympiad (Jeux de la XXIième olympiade) / Dirs. Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jean Baudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux / 1977 / 118 minutes / Color / 5.1 surround / in French with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio
  20. Lake Placid 1980 / XIII Olympic Winter Games / Olympic Spirit / Dirs. Drummond Challis, Maylam / 1980 / 27 minutes / Color / Monaural / 1:37:1 aspect ratio // Moscow 1980 / Games of the XXII Olympiad / O Sport, You Are Peace! (O sport ty — mir!) / Dir. Ozerov / 1981 / 149 minutes / Color / Monaural / in Russian with English subtitles / 1:37:1 aspect ratio
  21. Serajevo 1984 / XIV Olympic Winter Games / A Turning Point / Dir. Kim Takal / 1984 / 82 minutes / Color / Monaural / 1:37:1 aspect ratio
  22. Los Angeles 1984 / Games of the XXIII Olympiad / 16 Days of Glory / Dir. Bud Greenspan / 1986 / 284 minutes / Color / Stereo / 1:37:1 aspect ratio
  23. Calgary 1988 / XV Olympic Winter Games / Calgary ‘88: 16 Days of Glory / Dir. Greenspan / 1989 / 202 minutes / Color / Stereo / 1:37:1 aspect ratio
  24. Seoul 1988 / Games of the XXIV Olympiad / Seoul 1988 / Dir. Lee Kwang-soo / 1989 / 139 minutes / Color / Stereo / 1:33:1 aspect ratio
  25. Seoul 1988 / Games of the XXIV Olympiad / Hand in Hand / Dir. Im Kwon-taek / 1989 / 119 minutes / Color / Stereo / in Korean with English subtitles / 1:33:1 aspect ratio // Beyond All Barriers / Dir. Lee Ji-won / 1989 / 92 minutes / Color / Monaural / in Korean with English subtitles / 1:33:1 aspect ratio
  26. Albertville 1992 / XVI Olympic Winter Games / One Light, One World / Dirs. Joe Jay Jalbert, R. Douglas Copsey / 1992 / 104 minutes / Color / Stereo / 1:37:1 aspect ratio // Barcelona 1992 / Games of the XXV Olympiad / Marathon (Maratón) Dir. Carlos Saura / 1993 / 130 minutes / Color / Stereo / in Spanish with English subtitles / 1:78:1 aspect ratio
  27. Lillehammer 1994 / XVII Olympic Winter Games / Lillehammer ‘94: 16 Days of Glory / Dir. Greenspan / 1994 / 209 minutes / Color / Stereo / 1:33:1 aspect ratio
  28. Atlanta 1996 / Games of the XXVI Olympiad / Atlanta’s Olympic Glory / Dir. Greenspan / 1997 / 206 minutes / Color / Stereo / 1:35:1 aspect ratio
  29. Nagano 1998 / XVIII Olympic Winter Games / Nagano ‘98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory / Dir. Greenspan / 1998 / 119 minutes / Color / Stereo / 1:37:1 aspect ratio // Olympic Glory / Dir. Kieth Merrill / 1999 / 42 minutes / Color / 5.1 surround / 1:33:1 aspect ratio // Sydney 2000 / Games of the XXVII Olympiad / Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory / Dir. Greenspan / 2001 / 117 minutes / Color / Stereo / 1:37:1 aspect ratio
  30. Salt Lake City 2002 / XIX Olympic Winter Games / Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan’s Stories of Olympic Glory / Dir. Greenspan / 2003 / 119 minutes / Color / Stereo / 1:33:1 aspect ratio // Athens 2004 / Games of the XXVIII Olympiad / Bud Greenspan’s Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory / Dir. Greenspan / 2005 / 96 minutes / Color / Stereo / 1:37:1 aspect ratio
  31. Turin 2006 / XX Olympic Winter Games / Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory / Dir. Greenspan / 2007 / 88 minutes / Color / Stereo / 1:33:1 aspect ratio // Beijing 2008 / Games of the XXIX Olympiad / The Everlasting Flame / Dir. Gu Jun / 2010 / 101 minutes / Color / 5.1 surround / 1:78:1 aspect ratio
  32. Vancouver 2010 / XXI Olympic Winter Games / Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory / Prods. Greenspan, Nancy Beffa / 2010 / 116 minutes / Color / Stereo / 1:78:1 aspect ratio // London 2012 / Games of the XXX Olympiad / First / Dir. Caroline Rowland / 2012 / 109 minutes / Color / 5.1 surround / 1:78:1 aspect ratio

Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

 The Booklet

220-page book featuring essays by Peter Cowie, and Recovery and Restoration by Adrian Wood.

Commentary

None.

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

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