This week, Synapse Films is re-releasing in a slightly upgraded version its edition of Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will," by far the most notorious Nazi propaganda film.

On a completely different note:

It is striking in any case how filmmakers, separated by a war and an ocean, began working simultaneously on ideas that had lain fallow since the end of the silent era. Does form trump borders that content cannot cross?

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