This article is part of Climbing's ongoing Who's Who biographical study of climbing's all-time greats, achievers, and, in the case of Aleister Crowley and Leni Rienfenstahl, its most notorious and ...

This cleareyed documentary looks at how Leni Riefenstahl, the director of the Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will,” tirelessly tried to rewrite history. By Manohla Dargis Recent access to Leni ...

A new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl shows that aesthetics and politics are inextricably linked, and that no image is innocent when wielded by the state. Leni Riefenstahl checks her appearance for ...

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 ...

Democracy is on the decline across the globe, with the rise of populist leaders who attack minority groups and the institutions that function as a check and balance. This worrying creep towards ...

Birthdays are an occasion for hail and farewell: celebrate the achievement, mourn the passing. In previous That Old Feeling columns we have noted the natal anniversaries of Marilyn Monroe (75), Jean ...