[LEN-E] Leni in the news

[Ron Koster]

At 01:20 AM 6/19/2007 +0200, Luc Deneulin wrote:

>I came accross the

>radio interview descriptions a few years ago - here is R. Arnheim in

>his own words, , a big innovator in Filmstudies, one of the

>pioneers...  undesirable in Germany as from 1933, he was a friend of

>Riefenstahl till...:

>

>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/12/AR2007061201957.html


Thanks for that, Luc!

I know I've been slow in updated the news section of my site, but I 
just did so (including the above item)...

         http://www.riefenstahl.org/resources/news/

For reference, my last update ended on April 30th, so it's basically 
everything after that date that I just added in today.

Apart from the things mentioned in my earlier messages of today, 
there hasn't been much of interest, really. There have been a LOT of 
reviews of Steven Bach's book, and I mentioned any that seemed 
relevant (without being repetitive -- many articles appear multiple 
times at different locations) while not including others that were 
little more than just a "blurb".

Recently there's also been many articles about Bryan Ferry and his 
positive comments about Leni's films and Speer's architecture (as 
Thomas mentioned here a while ago) -- this doesn't really tell us 
anything about Leni, of course, but I included the first mention of 
what happened there as things progressed. Apart from that, there's 
also been a lot of hubbub about Steven Spielberg's plans to film the 
Olympics in China, with it being reported over and over again that 
Mia Farrow called him "the Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing Olympics", 
not to mention Michael Moore often being referred to as "the 
Riefenstahl of the left".

I *didn't* include these latter (because they amount to little more 
than name-calling and tell us virtually nothing about Leni -- other 
than, I suppose, that her name has become a nasty epithet that you 
can hurl at another person when you don't like what they're doing), 
but I *did* include the Bryan Ferry items because they do, in a way, 
provide an example of not only a positive perception toward Leni/her 
films, but also the professional/public repercussions for simply 
making such a statement.

Anyway, that's "LeNiews" for the past month-and-a-half or so!

Ron ;)

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