A dancer and a movie star before turning to directing, Leni Riefenstahl was unable to continue making films after the war -- punishment for her "Triumph of the Will," a record of the Nuremberg ...

It wasn’t an ad for the Tropicana’s mud wrestling, nor Playboy’s final acceptance into the mainstream; no, this was a review by David Pagel of Leni Riefenstahl’s latest show at Fahey/Klein ...

The German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl died September 8 at the age of 101. ... Among her better-known projects in the post-war period were photographic books of African Nuba tribesmen.

Leni Riefenstahl's triumph of denial Back. Print ... Subsequent journeys to Africa changed her life, and in 1962 a meeting with the Nuba tribe in Sudan led to a career as a still photographer.

Is Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia Nazi propaganda – or the greatest film about sport ever made? Nicholas Barber takes a look. In Stephen Hopkin’s recent Jesse Owens biopic, Race, Owens (Stephan ...

Despite the fact that she hasn’t made a movie in 50 years, Leni Riefenstahl remains the most famous and celebrated female filmmaker of all time, as well as the most reviled. “Triumph of the ...

The death of Leni Riefenstahl, maker of the classic Nazi-era German documentaries “Triumph of the Will” and “Olympia,” raises again some arguments endlessly debated but neve… ...

Learning To Love Leni Riefenstahl Slavoj Žižek September 10, 2003. Share. Tweet. Copy Link. Email ... she rediscovered her ideal of bodily beauty and graceful self-mastery in the Nuba African tribe.

Recent access to Leni Riefenstahl’s estate has prompted new discussions in Germany about her politics and a reconsideration of her photographs of the Nuba people in Sudan. By Thomas Rogers Two ...

Riefenstahl’s epic life in film was fittingly chronicled in an epic motion-picture documentary, The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993), made by the director Ray Müller.

BERLIN - Leni Riefenstahl, the legendary filmmaker reviled and revered for movies she made about Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich, died Tuesday - one of the last confidantes of the Nazi dictator.

Riefenstahl said she plans to celebrate her 100th birthday with "a small circle" of friends at a hotel near her home in the lake town of Poecking. "It will be about 200 people, and we will spend a ...