In November 1938, Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl visited Hollywood to secure an American distribution deal for Olympia, her epic two-part, four-and-a-half hour long documentary record of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, a dazzling showcase for athletic prowess, cinematic virtuosity, and Nazi pageantry. The trip did not go well.
Riefenstahl’s winter of discontent in California has inspired a radio play, Leni Goes to Hollywood, by the prolific multi-hyphenate Colin Shindler, film scholar (Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society 1929-1939), novelist (The Worst of Friends: The Betrayal of Joe Mercer), memoirist (Manchester United Ruined My Life), and radio playwright (How to Be an Internee with No ...
Riefenstahl’s winter of discontent in California has inspired a radio play, Leni Goes to Hollywood, by the prolific multi-hyphenate Colin Shindler, film scholar (Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society 1929-1939), novelist (The Worst of Friends: The Betrayal of Joe Mercer), memoirist (Manchester United Ruined My Life), and radio playwright (How to Be an Internee with No ...
- 8/24/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In November 1938, Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl visited Hollywood to secure an American distribution deal for Olympia, her epic two-part, four-and-a-half hour long documentary record of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, a dazzling showcase for athletic prowess, cinematic virtuosity, and Nazi pageantry. The trip did not go well.
Riefenstahl’s winter of discontent in California has inspired a radio play, Leni Goes to Hollywood, by the prolific multi-hyphenate Colin Shindler, film scholar (Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society 1929-1939), novelist (The Worst of Friends: The Betrayal of Joe Mercer), memoirist (Manchester United Ruined My Life), and radio playwright (How to Be an Internee with No ...
Riefenstahl’s winter of discontent in California has inspired a radio play, Leni Goes to Hollywood, by the prolific multi-hyphenate Colin Shindler, film scholar (Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society 1929-1939), novelist (The Worst of Friends: The Betrayal of Joe Mercer), memoirist (Manchester United Ruined My Life), and radio playwright (How to Be an Internee with No ...
- 8/24/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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