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Visions of 8 - The Olympics of Motion Picture Achievement

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Visions of 8 - The Olympics of Motion Picture Achievement (1973)

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Rated: G

Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins

Genre: Sports/Recreation

Synopsis: 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.

Director: Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Arthur Penn, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling, Juri Ozerov, Michael Pfleghar

Director: Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Arthur Penn, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling, Juri Ozerov, Michael Pfleghar
Screenwriter: David Hughes

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Nov 30, 1999

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As for so much of the rest, it seems to forget that it is the privilege of the modest art of film to find the meaning of things just in the way they are seen to be.

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The 1972 Munich Olympics as seen by eight directors; eight sequences devoted entirely to sport, with only passing reference to the intrusion of politics. About half of them work.

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The problem is that many of the sketches sometimes forget the idea of sport and competition itself, to indulge in ideas.

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What nobody could have anticipated, perhaps, is how similar many of those visions would be.

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