Olympia, Leni Riefenstahl’s four-hour 1938 documentary—a purported masterpiece on the Berlin Olympic Games—is impossible to ...
Leni Riefenstahl could be the most famous female film director of all time. She is certainly the most celebrated and notorious, thanks in large part to her two trailblazing documentaries, “Triumph of ...
Look at the world through Leni Riefenstahl’s lens, and a high diver doesn’t just dive. She flies. In one of the iconic images from her award-winning 1938 film Olympia, you see nothing but a glistening ...