Directed by Lee Kwang-soo • 1989 • South Korea
Of all the films that the Korean Motion Picture Promotion Corporation created for the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, Lee Kwang-soo's SEOUL 1988 is the most comprehensive. The film devotes much footage to sports dear to Koreans but regarded as minor in international terms: archery, table tennis (appearing as an official discipline for the first time at the Olympic Games), and shooting. And it revels in arcane details such as the American Florence Griffith Joyner's spending sixteen minutes in makeup before each race and the need for shooters to hit the center of a target just one milli- meter in diameter.
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Hand in Hand
Directed by Im Kwon-taek • 1989 • South Korea
Director Im Kwon-taek roots his idiosyncratic Olympic documentary, HAND IN HAND, in the past, with opening shots of the barbed wire dividing South from North Korea and an Australian veteran recalling the conflict of the early fifties. Im brings a tru...
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Beyond All Barriers
Directed by Lee Ji-won • 1989 • South Korea
BEYOND ALL BARRIERS is another feature-length record of the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games. Made by Lee Ji-won, it boasts a superb color palette and depicts the Opening Ceremony for more than fifty minutes in terms that are visually resplendent.
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One Light, One World
Directed by Joe Jay Jalbert and R. Douglas Copsey • 1992 • United States
For the XVI Olympic Winter Games Albertville 1992, sports documentarists Joe Jay Jalbert and R. Douglas Copsey were assigned to make the official chronicle. The resulting film, ONE LIGHT, ONE WORLD compensates for its rough...
