Leni's Life

[davemarc]

At 01:49 AM 6/13/96 +0200, hg wrote:
>> ""less vacuous than that of Spielberg?" - difficult, difficult indeed.
>> But maybe less cynical. Remembering a long Riefenstahl documentary,
>> what comes to mind is her total inability to think of herself and her
>> work in abstract terms, to even imagine what a 'fascist aesthetic' might
>> be, to just function on a totally unconscious level, not self-aware at all."
>
>Don Larson replies:
>  
>> Which may be just what Leni wants us to think. 
>[...]
>
>There's always that, sure - but having lived all my life in South Africa, 
>I tend not to ascribe too much ingenuity to such artists (the term 'artist' 
>is concession enough).

Not even topnotch propagandist Leni, who's had decades to brood over her
image problem?  
davemarc