The infamous and virtuosic Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl made the two documentaries she became legendary for, “Triumph of the Will” (1935) and “Olympiad” (1938), nearly 90 years ago. She herself ...

Leni Riefenstahl remains a problem to be solved, not because there’s any doubt about who she was, but because we are uncertain as to who we are. Riefenstahl, a filmmaker of exceptional talent, worked ...

One of the most eye-opening, chilling, fascinating, and frightening documentaries this year just premiered at the Venice Film Festival. It's titled Riefenstahl, referencing the iconic & also infamous ...

Beginning on March 13, Brave New World Repertory Theatre will debut its 2024 Season with the world premiere of “Leni’s Last Lament,” a one-woman show about the controversial World War II filmmaker ...

Leni Riefenstahl was a liar. She was many other things: a dancer, an athlete, an actress, a feminist, an explorer, a best-selling author and even the world's oldest licensed scuba diver. But she was ...

Some might wonder why, in 2025, yet another documentary about Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite propagandist, is needed. The answer, provided by Riefenstahl filmmaker Andres Veiel during a Q&A ...

This cleareyed documentary looks at how Leni Riefenstahl, the director of the Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will,” tirelessly tried to rewrite history. By Manohla Dargis Recent access to Leni ...

Andres Veiel’s documentary Riefenstahl – unpicking the deceits of German filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl – has scored a slew of deals following its world premiere at Venice and North ...

EXCLUSIVE: German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl won Venice Film Festival’s now defunct Mussolini Cup for best foreign film twice in the 1930s for Triumph of the Will and Olympia. The films, capturing the ...

Okay, time to fess up. Much like Thomas De Quincey, almost 200 years ago, became hooked on opium and went on to write about it, I have devolved into an Advil addict here in 2018 whenever I see a ...

Leni Riefenstahl, the German filmmaker whose daringly innovative documentaries about a Nazi rally in Nuremberg in 1934 and the Berlin Olympics of 1936 earned her both acclaim as a cinematic genius and ...