If the Gene Siskel FIlm Center’s screening of The Magic Flute has you longing for more opera films, here are five that hit the high notes.
Tag: Leni Riefenstahl
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It Came From the Neo-Futurarium XII, In the Soundless Awe, and six more new stage shows
The Neo-Futurists’ takes on camp classics and the evocation of a torpedoed WWII ship are among this week’s best bets.
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The art of making history
The Nazis’ sophisticated propaganda machine, artists’ reactions to the 2008 financial crisis: Two new exhibits of political history, then and now.
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Bringing the Nazis to Justice
A suppressed documentary on the Nuremberg war-crimes trial finally arrives in Chicago
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The Modern Mountaineering Movie
In North Face, a new German drama about an old expedition, the heroes are no blue-eyed supermen.
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Mia Farrow on Spielberg and Riefenstahl
Mia and Ronan Farrow take Steven Spielberg to task for his role in planning the 2008 Olympics in China.