Round 4: Tossup 2

This sort of event is the focus of the most acclaimed films by a director known for always wearing his glasses on top of his bald head; that director is Bud Greenspan. After the producers refused the demands of their first choice, Akira Kurosawa, Kon Ichikawa directed a 1965 film about this sort of event for which (15[1])Kazuo Miyagawa made heavy use of telephoto lenses and oversaw 164 cameramen. The opening montage of a film about this sort of event depicts the rubbled ruins of a (*) temple, before fading from a shot of a statue to a man emulating its pose. Two “festival” parts make up that film about this sort of event, in which a montage mixes slow motion, reverse motion, and underwater photography to depict men twirling through the air. For 10 points, (10[1])Leni Riefenstahl’s footage of what sort of event leaves out Adolf Hitler’s reaction to Jesse Owens winning gold? ■END■

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