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5.0 out of 5 stars
The photography lures you, action holds you.,
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This review is from: Olympia: The Leni Riefenstahl Archival Collection (1938) (DVD)
Part IThe film opens up with a film tribute to the history of Greece and the games. We get to see the names of the nations at the time that the torch passes through as it reached Berlin. A much more realistic torch than today's is ran into the stadium with a few pauses to let everyone see just before the final dash to the Olympic torch at the stadium. It would be great to recapture this in the present day. Some of the tribute leads me to believe that our athletes are overly clothed for the sports. Part II By now watching Part I, "Festival of the nation" spoiled you. Again this film starts out with the ideal and surrounded by Leni's signature clouds. List is leading you to "field hockey, soccer bicycling, equestrian, aquatic and gymnastic events. Highlights are the Pentathlon and the Decathlon." Remember that some countries were still using horses in the military. It may be unique reasons that brought you to this point such as Leni or photography, or interest in history, or, or, or. But once the action starts you feel that you are there and get lost in the "who will win what and how." Even being aware of the outcome does not prepare you to "not bite your nails" as you watch each athlete barley besting the next until it is over too soon. I noticed that instead of placing medals over the winners, they used laurel wreaths. Any way you cut it, this movie is worth watching.
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3.8 out of 5 stars (33 customer reviews) 105 of 106 people found the following review helpful
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The Wonderful (cinematography) Horrible (transfer) of Olympia,
By D. C. Hociota - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Olympia: The Leni Riefenstahl Archival Collection (1938) (DVD)
Olympia is a piece of sport history coated in a magnificent art form. The superlatives aren't enough to describe this documentary; a veritable time machine traveling to an amazing and Orwellian future Valhalla called Nazi Germany.1936 Olympiad was also well renown for the first to be broadcast on a form of television. This DVD sadly has an image quality comparable to what the citizens of Berlin saw on those twenty five large screens scattered along the City's main boulevards 70 years ago. Having seen some excerpts from "Olympia" in the documentary `The Wonderful Horrible life of Leni Riefenstahl" on DVD, I had great expectations concerning the image quality of this new release. What a disappointment! No one bothered to digitally remove the annoying scratches not mentioning the total absence of any timid tentative of restoration of a decent audio sound. Everything seems like a low resolution transfer from a cheap VHS . Let's hope that some day Criterion Collection will do this film the justice it deserves. 77 of 79 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Be Honest,
By Baron von Munchhausen - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Olympia: The Leni Riefenstahl Archival Collection (1938) (DVD)
The original, as I viewed it on public television perhaps twenty years ago, was spectacular.But the problems in this version are not just superficial and are not simply ones that some hyper-purist would notice. They include tiling, caused by extreme compression; scratches and blips galore; grey tonal quality converging on nil, and sometimes making it seem like one is looking through a duststorm; ridiculous cropping of the image, often even cutting off the heads of the subjects. The audio's flaky, too, especially noticeable in the sometimes lurching, but always tinny rendition of the orchestral scoring. Weirdly, the package seems to have been conceived well, with nice features included. How is it possible, then, to have messed up the technical execution so badly? 111 of 118 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Classic Film / Horrible transfer,
By Orson Swelles "filmfanatix" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Olympia: The Leni Riefenstahl Archival Collection (1938) (DVD)
I have been waiting for Criterion to release this for 4 years now. With the technology of restoration of older films vastly improving I must say this is the worst transfer that I have seen of an older film released in the last two years. Don't spend your money on this edition and hope that Criterion will release this in our lifetime!
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