Notes on Leni Riefenstahl’s ‘Triumph of the Will’‘ “[Hitler] wanted a film showing the Congress through a non-expert eye, selecting just what was most artistically satisfying – in terms of spectacle…. He wanted a film which would move, appeal to, impress an audience which was not necessarily interested in politics.”•… Read More »The Leni Gaze
YouGov’s young LGBTQ+ sleb ‘helpers’ I’m officially ancient. Possibly clinically dead. I only recognised three of these slebs – and forgot that Gaga was officially bisexual. Though given her dating history, that’s something she may be prone to herself. It’s also questionable just how recognised or influential any of these ‘LGBTQ+’… Read More »Rolling Your Own
Remembering a lost 20th Century art form A couple of months back, I wrote about the mildly interesting but not exactly gripping BBC boyband reality series Made in Korea, which allows us, reality stylee, a close-up view of the hard drilling of the hopeful young members of fivesome Dear Alice in the… Read More »Boybands (Aren’t) Forever
Why do film critics wank themselves into a frenzy of adulation over the plainly mediocre – sorry, “visionary” – film director Luca Guadagnino? Is it because he’s Italian, with a very Italian and difficult to spell name? Or is it just to confirm the complete redundancy of critics nowadays? And… Read More »Three-Love: The M4M4W Slog-Fest, Challengers
Iron rules for Simmo’s Swoletopia Anyone who has used a public gym regularly has daydreamed about being in charge of one. At least for an hour. Not so much paying the bills and checking the toilets, as laying down the law. A strongman, a shredded Caesar, running the muscle factory… Read More »Gym Dic(k)tator