From ron at psymon.com Tue May 1 13:54:39 2007 From: ron at psymon.com (Ron Koster) Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 13:54:39 -0400 Subject: [LEN-E] Jodie Foster, Steven Bach, and other news Message-ID: <20070501175447.DC9BB2BB10@mailwash40.pair.com> Hi folks! As I mentioned recently, I've been busy with other things for the past while, but from time to time (including today) I've updated the "LeNiews" section of my site... http://www.riefenstahl.org/resources/news/ There's been some rather interesting items over the last couple of months. Just in the last couple of days there's been some articles about Jodie Foster renewing her work on the Leni film she's been wanting to make for many years now (which is certainly something to look forward to, although it's still probably at least a couple of years away), and you'll also find *many* links to *many* reviews of the new biographies by Steven Bach (especially) and Jurgen Trimborn. With regard to these latter, both books are highly critical (i.e. negative) toward Leni, and most of the reviews do little more than summarize this take on her, but one will also find the odd article here and there which is also critical of these biographies themselves and some of the limitations of the authors' perspective. In addition, one will also find some interviews with Steven Bach -- which, if one has a keen and critical eye of one's own, are actually quite revealing about his not-so-objective slant in writing his book. It would appear that his goal, in the end, was to trash Leni as best and as much as he could, without being forgiving, understanding or compassionate toward her in any way at all, compiling every mistake and misjudgement she ever made as some definitive (and often presumptuous and overblown) evidence that she was clearly little more than a "loathsome" person -- and, based on the majority of reviews of his book (no doubt mostly by reviewers who know little more about Leni than what Bach has told them), I suppose he succeeded in that goal. :/ Anyway, there you go -- just browse over to the above URL and you'll find a good afternoon or evening's worth of reading! Ron :) Woof?... http://www.Psymon.com Ach, du Leni!... http://www.Riefenstahl.org Hmm... http://www.Imaginary-Friend.ca From easternwindow at freenet.de Thu May 17 04:50:50 2007 From: easternwindow at freenet.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_K=F6hler?=) Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:50:50 +0200 Subject: [LEN-E] Bryan Ferry and Leni References: <20070501175447.DC9BB2BB10@mailwash40.pair.com> Message-ID: <003f01c79860$7be5f960$542d3359@n6q9j8> Hi all, a curious bit of news: ageing pop-music dandy Bryan Ferry (of Roxy Music fame) seems to have gotten himself into quite a bit of trouble recently by mentioning his fascination for the art and aesthetics of both Leni and Albert Speer in an interview with a German newspaper. He also pointed out apparently that he secretly calls his studio the 'F?hrerbunker'... Well, if the latter sounds indeed a little tasteless, the international reactions about his statements concerning the attraction of Leni's art seem both somewhat exagerrated but not unsurprising to me.... Read a summary of the story here: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2449976.ece There's also an official statement and apology on Ferry's own site (news section): www.bryanferry.com Enjoy :-) Thomas From luc.deneulin at skynet.be Fri May 18 20:18:25 2007 From: luc.deneulin at skynet.be (Luc Deneulin) Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 02:18:25 +0200 Subject: [LEN-E] Bryan Ferry and Leni In-Reply-To: <003f01c79860$7be5f960$542d3359@n6q9j8> References: <20070501175447.DC9BB2BB10@mailwash40.pair.com> <003f01c79860$7be5f960$542d3359@n6q9j8> Message-ID: Thanks a lot THomas for this information! Best regards Luc Deneulin On 17 May 2007, at 10:50, Thomas K?hler wrote: > Hi all, > > a curious bit of news: ageing pop-music dandy Bryan Ferry (of > Roxy Music > fame) seems to have gotten himself into quite a bit of trouble > recently by > mentioning his fascination for the art and aesthetics of both Leni and > Albert Speer in an interview with a German newspaper. He also > pointed out > apparently that he secretly calls his studio the 'F?hrerbunker'... > Well, if > the latter sounds indeed a little tasteless, the international > reactions > about his statements concerning the attraction of Leni's art seem both > somewhat exagerrated but not unsurprising to me.... > > Read a summary of the story here: > http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2449976.ece > > There's also an official statement and apology on Ferry's own site > (news > section): > www.bryanferry.com