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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Leni Riefenstahl |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 08 March, 1940 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Pathfinder Home Entertainment |
| ESRB RATING: | Mature |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full length, Limited Edition, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Art House & International, B&W, Documentary, Drama, Foreign Film [Dub Or Subtitle], German, Germany, High Artistic Quality, High Budget, High Historical Importance, High Production Values, History, Movie, Political Documentary, Political History, Politics & Government, Rousing, Social History, Sport, Sports |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 825307915990 |
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Customer Reviews of OLYMPIA -The LENI RIEFENSTAHL Archival Collection
Don't waste your money This disk is terrible. It is obviously cheaply digitized from a poor master tape. Don't purchase products by Pathfinder Home Entertainment, if this is an example of their business practice.
Olympic-- and film gold!
Some years ago I saw that a theater that played "revivals" was showing Leni Riefenstahl's OLYMPIA. I had heard of the famed cinematographer-- whose life circumstances placed her talent in the middle of 1930's Germany. The film chronicles the famous Olympic games where Jesse Owens triumped on the world stage and Adolf Hitler dominated the political stage. The film is long-- many many hours. I decided to invest the six buck price of admission and just stay "for a while" to get an impression of Riefenstahls work-- I was mesmorized! I couldn't leave and stayed for the whole thing (4, 5, 6 hours-- whatever it is). When I saw OLYMPIA available on Amazon while looking for another film I grabbed it. And, again-- (through the wonders of technology) I sat completely fascinated, entertained, transported by hours and hours of this film and found myself repeating sections more than fast forwarding. It is truly a classic. Anyone who loves film, the Olympics, history-- should see this film and have it in their collection. It is stylized, artful, beautiful, humorous-- (the equestrian sequences of people falling off horses is a riot). But I guess the adjective that comes most to mind is beauty-- the images, angles, light are magical and exciting. At times the beauty of a still standing scupted object-- at times ballet, at times the raw excitement of athleticism and competition. Over the years my love of film has led to the project of founding and running Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. I know film makers, and curators, and heads of film institutes and have seen hundreds and hundreds of films-- I would recommend this film to any and all. It deserves the name classic--
Optical quality?
I have long owned a VHS copy of Olympia, and it wasn't visually bad, but of course I longed for the improvement a DVD version might bring. This release was a surprise - it seems to be not an optical transfer, but a DVD of the VHS version, horizontal analogue scan lines and all, and visually a disappointment. I realise that a total restoration is expensive and that the market for this kind of thing is relatively small, and I'll live with what I can get, but if Criterion ever releases a restored version, I'll be first in line. Until then, concentrate on the hypnotic, iconic content. As an avowed curmudgeon, I'm offended by yahoo patriots at international sporting events chanting USA!USA! from the bleachers. There they were, in 1936, chanting for Jesse Owens as he won four golds - then and there the patriot war cry seemed right.