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Visions of Eight is a documentary about the Munich Olympics from 1972 that started out as a unique idea--let 8 well known movie directors each make a short film, 10-12 minutes on any aspect of the Munich games they wish. And that's what you get here, 8 short little films each covering some piece of the Games and the result is a rather uneven film entertainment wise with events like the 100 meter dash and weight lifting being covered. But the 8 different and rather forgetable stories aren't what makes this DVD so compelling; its the overarching and tragic events that occurred AT the games themselves, the Israeli athletes being murdered, that dwarfs anything these directors produced. As a 16 yr old high school kid involved with Track & Field at the time the games were going on, I remember the shock & confusion of reading what was happening in Munich in the newspapers. The murder of the Israeli's just didn't 'make sense' in the context of the "world coming together every 4 years for spirited competition" as the Olympics describes itself.
So what you get here is a movie that's pretty forgetable as a stand alone piece of entertainment, (their are much better documentaries of other Olympic Games available), BUT as a film made at the time and place of what is probably the most unforgetable Olympics of all time, this DVD is priceless. It is a 'time capsule' of the vision we had of the Olympic Games prior to 1972, of potential peace & harmony, before the shocking events at Munich changed everything. Its for that reason, this film is worth watching and keeping in my view. One of the 8 segments attempts to cover the Israeli murder as its happening, certainly not what the Director had planned to cover I'm sure. But that piece of the film is rather 'simple' & 'limited' because it was created so close to the actual events. A brilliant documentary that DOES cover the killing of the Israeli's at Munich and the huge ramifications of it is "One Day in September" and that is a superb film that is the...accomplished and thoughtful counterpart to "Visions of Eight". Watched together these two films give one an amazing picture of an event that took place almost 40 years ago and is still effecting the world today. I highly recommend this DVD if for no other reason than it documents a time, and provides a 'vision' of the Olympic Games we will never see again.
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From the manufacturer
Eight distinctive personal visions of the Olympic Games make for a sports documentary like no other
In Munich in 1972, eight renowned filmmakers each brought their singular artistry to the spectacle of the Olympic Games—the joy and pain of competition, the kinetic thrill of bodies in motion—for an aesthetically adventurous sports film unlike any other.
Made to document the Olympic Summer Games—an event that was ultimately overshadowed by tragedy—Visions of Eight features contributions from Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Juri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, and Mai Zetterling, each given carte blanche to create a short focusing on any aspect of the Games that captured his or her imagination.
The resulting films—ranging from the arresting abstraction of Penn’s pure cinema study of pole-vaulters to the playful irreverence of Forman’s musical take on the decathlon to Schlesinger’s haunting portrait of the single-minded solitude of a marathon runner—are triumphs of personal, poetic vision applied to one of the pinnacles of human achievement.
Special Edition Features
- New 4K digital restoration
- New audio commentary by podcasters Amanda Dobbins, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan of the Ringer
- New documentary on the making of the film including behind-the-scenes footage
- And more
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