Word: riefenstahl
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...Autumn Sonata and Fanny). The Academy also gave him the Irving G. Thalberg Award for career achievement - the only foreign-language filmmaker to receive it. In 1960 he received a still higher honor: he graced the cover of TIME, the first foreign-language filmmaker to do so since Leni Riefenstahl...
BERLIN, 1936 Cinema pioneer and accused propagandist Leni Riefenstahl set a new standard for sports photography with Olympia, her film of the Nazi-hosted games. To the end, she maintained that art, sport and politics collided--but didn't collude...
BEIJING '08 The Games' 2008 motto is "One world, one dream." Mia Farrow sees it differently: citing China's support for Sudan, she calls Spielberg a neo-Riefenstahl. But the Games--and the show--will go on, as will the controversy...
...DEVELOPING A FILM ABOUT THE NAZI-GLORIFYING FILMMAKER LENI RIEFENSTAHL. ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT THE CONTROVERSY? It's one of the reasons to do it. She's one of the most infamous characters and yet might have been one of the greatest female filmmakers of all time...
...word “genocide” has stronger social connotations than “mass killing,” the term “propaganda” instantly catapults us to the dark deeds of Nazi Information Minister Joseph Goebbels and the darling of the regime, Leni Riefenstahl, who shot the dubiously acclaimed “Triumph of the Will...