ED, I fully agree with you about Olympia (you are refreeing to Lennie Riefenstal's movie, aren't you?) even though the very fact of being Jewish sends a chill through my spine thinking when, where and by whom it was produced.
Uri Goldbourt ==================== Quoting Ed Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Netters: > Ed Koch's list of track films had a few omissions, one of them > being > "The Human Comedy." where Mickey Rooney was a HS hurdler (if you can > figure > that one out---at least it was the low hurdles). It came out toward the > end > of WW II< the scropt was by William Saroyan and it had a first class > cast. > Propabably rated about 3 stars. > > Can't believe the 3-star rating Maltin gave "Personal Best," a > piece > of junk if ever there was one. > > I would rate the Geb movie over the one Pre movie I saw (can't > remember by title, but it was the one with Donald Sutherland as > Bowerman). > It was unpretentious and as real as any movie about our sport can get, > > IMHO, "Olympia" stands by itself, the greatest sports > documentary of > all time, as well as a reflection, sometimes unintnded, of an Olympics > whose > histoiral setting will never be matched. > > Ed Grant. >
