Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi sympathies ran deeper than she admitted, a new documentary about the director argues
The new documentary “Riefenstahl,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, takes a critical look at the “Triumph of the Will” filmmaker
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In film theory, there’s something called the Kuleshov Effect, which teaches that juxtaposing images in sequence can suggest completely different reads of a shot. The typical example is an image of a blank-faced man placed alongside an image of a baby in a casket, a pairing that makes viewers interpret the man’s expression as sad…
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Madonna brought Kabbalah to the masses, but New York magazine still wonders whether her new movie might have a “Jewish problem.” Last week, the singer attended the Venice Film Festival premiere of “W.E.,” her second effort as a director. Early reviews were mostly abysmal, but the film’s quality is only part of the story. Co-written…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: Selective Memory in East Germany
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Back in May, our Gabriel Sanders interviewed Leni Riefenstahl biographer Steven Bach at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage. The interview has since been broadcast on C-Span and is now available online. The broadcast includes a short excerpt from the filmmaker’s 1938 documentary “Olympia” and — at the tail end — a question from Gabriel’s…
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