Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leni Riefenstahl remains a problem to be solved, not because there’s any doubt about who she was, but because we are uncertain as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The infamous and virtuosic Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl made the two documentaries she became legendary for, “Triumph of the ...

Leni Riefenstahl, the German filmmaker whose daringly innovative documentaries about a Nazi rally in Nuremberg in 1934 and the Berlin Olympics of 1936 earned her both acclaim as a cinematic genius and ...

Beginning on March 13, Brave New World Repertory Theatre will debut its 2024 Season with the world premiere of “Leni’s Last Lament,” a one-woman show about the controversial World War II filmmaker ...

One of the most eye-opening, chilling, fascinating, and frightening documentaries this year just premiered at the Venice Film Festival. It's titled Riefenstahl, referencing the iconic & also infamous ...

Leni Riefenstahl checks her appearance for the recording of the three-part documentary Speer und Er by director Heinrich Breloer (1999) (© Bavaria Media) A woman roaming the mountainside splashes her ...

Leni Riefenstahl was a liar. She was many other things: a dancer, an athlete, an actress, a feminist, an explorer, a best-selling author and even the world's oldest licensed scuba diver. But she was ...

"Doesn't an artist have a special responsibility?" Madman Films in Australia has unveiled an official trailer for a documentary film titled Riefenstahl, yes indeed a look back at the controversial and ...

The life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, who died on Monday at age 101, seems to lend itself to a mapping of a devolution, progressing toward a dark conclusion. It began with the early “mountain films” ...

EXCLUSIVE: German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl won Venice Film Festival’s now defunct Mussolini Cup for best foreign film twice in the 1930s for Triumph of the Will and Olympia. The films, capturing the ...

The infamous and virtuosic Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl made the two documentaries she became legendary for, “Triumph of the Will” (1935) and “Olympiad” (1938), nearly 90 years ago. She herself ...

Her documentaries earned her acclaim as a cinematic genius, as well as criticism for putting her talent at the service of Hitler. By Alan Riding This cleareyed documentary looks at how Leni ...