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Left-wing documentaries are nothing new. In fact, with the exception of Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi-rally film Triumph of the Will, it's hard to think of a right-wing documentary. Nor was Moore alone in his obsession with the Republican elite. Among the festival screenings were the documentary Bush's Brain (about adviser Karl Rove) and a fact-based drama, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. But Fahrenheit 9/11 had all the hot press. And it more than lived up to its advance...
...blown out all those candles for deceased artistes Marlene Dietrich, Richard Rodgers, Ogden Nash, Cornell Woolrich, S.J. Perelman and Ted ?Dr. Seuss? Geisel. Two more honorees, Leni Riefenstahl and Bob Hope, were still alive when they got reached triple digits, though they have since ceded to mortality. I used to unearth these milestones only when I?d hear of some media cross-promotion - a tributary rivulet of books, CDs or DVDs - which often meant playing hectic catch-up. Now I go to the Internet Movie Database at the start of a year and see whose centenaries are imminent. (Click...
Documentary filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl [MILESTONES, Sept. 22] may be dismissed for her venality, but the godlike image we have of African-American athlete Jesse Owens comes from Olympia, her film of the 1936 Summer Games, made under Nazi auspices. This suggests that however much she cooperated with those in power, her aesthetic remained her own. DANIEL MERCER Pennsauken...
...Defense of an Artist The story of documentary filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl [Sept. 22] is that of a person betrayed by opportunistic turncoats and backstabbers. The people who applauded her before the war?and they weren't only Germans?were the same ones who condemned her afterward. Her fascination with Adolf Hitler wasn't different from anyone else's at that time. In the prewar era, a passion for Hitler, whether it was blind faith or political maneuvering, was a common phenomenon. Was Riefenstahl's art fascist at that time? One must ask whether there ever was a country that didn...
...LENI RIEFENSTAHL might be remembered as cinema's greatest woman director or as its most gifted documentary filmmaker, whose two-part Olympia, a record of the 1936 Summer Games, pioneered techniques and attitudes copied in virtually all TV sports coverage. Instead, she is vilified as the venal genius who glamorized the Hitler myth in 1935's Triumph of the Will. This record of a Nazi Party Congress rally in Nuremberg still sickens with its close-up view of the spellbinding Fuhrer (this was the original Springtime for Hitler), still enthralls with the artful precision of its editing craft. A wily...