You can feel as if you’ve seen “Triumph of the Will” even if you’ve never submitted yourself to its full running time. Its images circulate independently of the film that contains them, moving freely ...
The film is made up entirely of materials excavated from the 700 boxes Leni Riefenstahl bequeathed to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin, which arrived only after the death of her ...
That’s not how Leni Riefenstahl wanted to be remembered. No, she preferred a more self-serving myth – that she was “only an artist,” perhaps a bit naïve, who took on filmic “assignments” from the ...
Olympia, Leni Riefenstahl’s four-hour 1938 documentary—a purported masterpiece on the Berlin Olympic Games—is impossible to get through in its entirety. You can’t do it, not without several thumb ...
To what degree was infamous filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl a Nazi collaborator who knew about Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps? In the documentary “Riefenstahl,” which debuted at the 2024 Venice Film ...
On Aug. 21, the American Supreme Leader created yet another dubious government agency. The “National Design Studio” is named with this administration’s mastery of doublespeak. One imagines this studio ...
Propagandists for evil, when exposed, have their work cut out for them. After the Nazis were defeated, “Triumph of the Will” director Leni Riefenstahl, stripped of her Third Reich protections but ...
Filmmaker and actor Leni Riefenstahl has been the subject of a slew of documentaries over the years, many attempting to unravel the truth about her relationship with the Nazi Party. Was the director ...