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noahgibbsLeni Riefenstahl released a new movie in time for her birthday. In fact, she released that film in time for her 100th birthday, and it's her first new release in about 48 years.
She broke her hip in a helicopter crash in Africa at the age of 93. She took up scuba diving in her 80's or 90's (I forget). She was roundly jeered when she accepted a lifetime achievement award in 1997. She's being investigated by the German government right now (just after her August 22nd birthday) for denying the Holocaust -- not that she does, just that there's a Gypsy organization accusing her of it.
The poor woman revolutionized cinema, did what were some of the best movies ever made at the time, invented a surprising number of filming and editing techniques now taken for granted, and she just can't buy a break. I hope that "Impressionen unter Wasser", her latest film, is released in some form in the US. I want to buy a copy just to support her, on principle. She deserves it.
She broke her hip in a helicopter crash in Africa at the age of 93. She took up scuba diving in her 80's or 90's (I forget). She was roundly jeered when she accepted a lifetime achievement award in 1997. She's being investigated by the German government right now (just after her August 22nd birthday) for denying the Holocaust -- not that she does, just that there's a Gypsy organization accusing her of it.
The poor woman revolutionized cinema, did what were some of the best movies ever made at the time, invented a surprising number of filming and editing techniques now taken for granted, and she just can't buy a break. I hope that "Impressionen unter Wasser", her latest film, is released in some form in the US. I want to buy a copy just to support her, on principle. She deserves it.
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Date: 2002-08-27 10:07 am (UTC)Leni Riefenstahl gets roughly the "total bastard but her art is great" treatment, except that the only things I could really hold against her she's already recanted. Sure, ostracism through the forties and fifties was probably justified, but fifteen and twenty years afterward, being adopted by a tribe of enormous African guys and filming them wrestling, I think it's time to consider cutting her a break.
And that goes doubly for a women in her nineties filming fish. Fish! We have no reason to suspect they're Nazi fish and I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt :-)
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Date: 2002-08-27 12:04 pm (UTC)I admit it took me a couple articles before I realized why your posts kept linking to things I found vaguely familiar.
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Date: 2002-08-27 03:23 pm (UTC)yes, i knew joshua, slightly. i was aware of him. i'm not sure if that's why i found out about memepool, it's just something that once i started reading, was hard to stop. always a reliable source of useless amusement and trivia...