The Olympics are an event, sure, but more crucially, they’re an idea. As a child, no other single thing made me feel prouder to be an American. The borders were clear then, even when nothing else was: ...

Every modern Olympics—even the first, in Athens in 1896—has been recorded on film. Some of the most famous documentaries inspired by the Games include Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia,” her record of the ...

Rhianna Malas is a creative writer and essayist currently living in Melbourne, Australia. An RMIT alum, she has self produced a comic zine, and has written short stories and creative non-fiction ...

Kon Ichikawa, celebrated Japanese helmer whose career spanned more than seven decades, died on Feb. 13 of pneumonia. He was 92. Best known abroad for “The Burmese Harp” (1956) and “Fires on the Plain ...

Of the countless documentaries about the Olympic Games, two have long held their place on the podium. The first is Olympia (1938), Leni Riefenstahl’s landmark two-part film about the controversial ...

Amorphous, shadow-cloaked exterior shots and border-free wide-angle panoramas set a uniquely cinematic stage for riveting 1963 melodrama An Actor’s Revenge (newly restored). These visually limitless ...

Kon Ichikawa, 92, a Japanese director who married artistic technique with humanistic spirit in films such as the Oscar-nominated "Harp of Burma" and "Tokyo Olympiad," died Feb. 13 of pneumonia in a ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese film director Kon Ichikawa, who won a raft of awards for his work in the 1950s and 1960s, has died of pneumonia, movie studio Toho Co said on Wednesday. He was 92. Born in ...