Comments on: The Delirious Fascist Aesthetic

By: vera

vera — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:09:57 +0000

Dunno… I read a big chunk of her detailed biography, and saw a part of a long film about her, and there was quite a bit about her animosity with Goebbels, and her securing independence from his oversight by direct access to Hitler because of it. It seems to me that Sontag’s treatment bristles with the sort of anti-Nazi propaganda she deplores in Leni’s pro-Nazi propaganda.

But then, I am a contrarian, so…

I grew up on anti-Nazi propaganda among people many of whom were themselves compromised and so covered themselves in its mantle. When I wanted to finally understand what Nazism meant to the Germans, viscerally, I turned to Leni’s films. I am grateful they exist.

By: vera

vera — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:18:52 +0000

Aw. Leni’s work was good! Well, some of it, anyway. She was in denial about whom she worked for though…

People of the ilk of Sontag hounded her for the rest of her life, and destroyed her African films.

By: Antonio Dias

Antonio Dias — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:08:42 +0000

This new “Captain America!” feels like a new height for the genre. The new crop of “innocents” it’s aimed at have half a half-assed excuse to be smitten without understanding what they’re letting us all in for. The money behind it has no such excuses.