東京オリンピック
Inhalte(1)
A spectacle of magnificent proportions and remarkable intimacy, Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad remains one of the greatest films ever made about sports. Supervising a team of hundreds of technicians using more than a thousand cameras, Ichikawa captured the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo in glorious widescreen images, using cutting-edge telephoto lenses and exquisite slow motion to create lyrical, idiosyncratic poetry from the athletic drama surging all around him. Drawn equally to the psychology of losers and winners—including legendary Ethiopian marathoner Abebe Bikila, who receives the film’s most exalted tribute—Ichikawa captures the triumph, passion, and suffering of competition with a singular humanistic vision, and in doing so effects a transformative influence on the art of documentary filmmaking. (Criterion)
(mehr)Kritiken (1)
A beautiful celebration of sport captured by a director who already had a name at the time and put himself, the artist, into the documentary. It's very visible in the film, but I have to say it didn't have such a strong effect on me. Those details are sometimes brilliant, but as a whole, it felt like a montage of interesting things. I have to say that the presence of Věra Čáslavská in a great sequence made me very happy, also because it is well shot.
()