Riefenstahl

It's like Musk took a bunch of ketamine, watched nothing but Leni Riefenstahl film reels of blonde musclemen marching in parades to illustrate Aryan fitness, and mistook that for a reality he could will into being.

And while I may have taken a dissenting view on Tom Jacobson’s “Crevasse,” finding the two-hander about Leni Riefenstahl’s meeting with Walt Disney to be somewhat confusingly structured, I have nothing but praise for director Matthew McCray, his design team and the production’s superlative cast, Leo Marks and Ann Noble.

Such historically inspired pieces as “The Brutalist,” “Lee,” “White Bird: A Wonder Story” and the documentaries “The Commandant’s Shadow” and “Riefenstahl,” plus the contemporary dramedy “A Real Pain,” all feature echoes of the Shoah.

Like other political observers, I was expecting some version of Leni Riefenstahl's “Triumph of the Will” and Donald Trump to even more fully channel Hitler and the Nazis in Milwaukee.

It is perhaps no surprise that Leni Riefenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will” comes to mind given the Republican Convention in Wisconsin.