Chariots of Fire (1981)
Country: GB
Technical: col 121m
Director: Hugh Hudson
Cast: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell, Ian Holm
Synopsis:
At the 1924 Olympics in Paris, three Britons shine in their respective events.
Review:
Cannily timed just after the triple success of Coe, Cram and Ovett at the Moscow Olympics, Puttnam's film came away with four Oscars and seemed to herald a revitalised British Film Industry. Alas, it was not to be sustained, and how could it? Now the film is mostly remembered for the music by Vangelis and the slow-motion running sequences, a quaint aesthetic choice, but one can see why it was made. The choice acting moments go to Ian Holm and the grandees of Anderson and Gielgud, rather than the somewhat earnest newcomers, though Havers cuts a dash as a toff hurdles athlete who practises with glasses of Champagne perched along the course.
Country: GB
Technical: col 121m
Director: Hugh Hudson
Cast: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell, Ian Holm
Synopsis:
At the 1924 Olympics in Paris, three Britons shine in their respective events.
Review:
Cannily timed just after the triple success of Coe, Cram and Ovett at the Moscow Olympics, Puttnam's film came away with four Oscars and seemed to herald a revitalised British Film Industry. Alas, it was not to be sustained, and how could it? Now the film is mostly remembered for the music by Vangelis and the slow-motion running sequences, a quaint aesthetic choice, but one can see why it was made. The choice acting moments go to Ian Holm and the grandees of Anderson and Gielgud, rather than the somewhat earnest newcomers, though Havers cuts a dash as a toff hurdles athlete who practises with glasses of Champagne perched along the course.
Country: GB
Technical: col 121m
Director: Hugh Hudson
Cast: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell, Ian Holm
Synopsis:
At the 1924 Olympics in Paris, three Britons shine in their respective events.
Review:
Cannily timed just after the triple success of Coe, Cram and Ovett at the Moscow Olympics, Puttnam's film came away with four Oscars and seemed to herald a revitalised British Film Industry. Alas, it was not to be sustained, and how could it? Now the film is mostly remembered for the music by Vangelis and the slow-motion running sequences, a quaint aesthetic choice, but one can see why it was made. The choice acting moments go to Ian Holm and the grandees of Anderson and Gielgud, rather than the somewhat earnest newcomers, though Havers cuts a dash as a toff hurdles athlete who practises with glasses of Champagne perched along the course.