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...Adolf Hitler, who had long admired her work on the screen. He...promptly amazed the German cinema industry by commissioning her to make the official film of last summer's Nurnberg Party Congress in which she directed 800,000 men. When Herr Hitler's crony, Air Minister Goring, married Cinemactress Riefenstahl's crony, Actress Emmy Sonnemann, last year, Hitler was best man. That Realmleader Hitler, a confirmed celibate, has any such intentions concerning Cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl no one suspects for a moment, but that he holds her in high esteem, entertains romantic admiration for her achievements and her character...
When Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won Oscars in this year's much discussed Black Hollywood moment, they paid their respects to Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier, not to Pam Grier and Richard Roundtree. In the remembrances of African-American cinema past that followed, there wasn't much tribute to Foxy Brown, Superfly or Hell Up in Harlem. Blaxploitation--the genre of small-budget, big-action and bigger-Afro movies that flourished in the early to mid-'70s--has been something of an embarrassment to Hollywood and the black intelligentsia alike. (The term black exploitation was popularized by mainline African...
...appropriate that blaxploitation's theatrical tribute came this summer from a pair of popcorn movies: Undercover Brother and Austin Powers in Goldmember (with the foil fatale, Foxxy Cleopatra, played by Beyonce Knowles). But now director Isaac Julien aims to put blaxploitation into the canon with the documentary BaadAsssss Cinema (IFC, Aug. 14, 10 p.m. E.T.), which unashamedly argues that those movies had artistic merit and political force...
When Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won Oscars in this year's much discussed Black Hollywood moment, they paid their respects to Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier, not to Pam Grier and Richard Roundtree. In the remembrances of African-American cinema past that followed, there wasn't much tribute to Foxy Brown, Superfly or Hell Up in Harlem. Blaxploitation - the genre of small-budget, big-action and bigger-Afro movies that flourished in the early to mid-'70s - has been something of an embarrassment to Hollywood and the black intelligentsia alike. (The term black exploitation was popularized by mainline African...
...appropriate that blaxploitation's theatrical tribute came this summer from a pair of popcorn movies: Undercover Brother and Austin Powers in Goldmember (with the foil fatale, Foxxy Cleopatra, played by Beyonce Knowles). But now director Isaac Julien aims to put blaxploitation into the canon with the documentary BaadAsssss Cinema (IFC, Aug. 14, 10 p.m. E.T.), which unashamedly argues that those movies had artistic merit and political force...