"The end of 2002 heralded the arrival of the latest adventure in the forty-year-old James Bond franchise, a continuation not only of the residual cold war icon now transformed by the Bloc-less postmodern world, but of a specific gaze, a way of presenting the female form/image found in the vision of filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl."

Excellent article at brightlightsfilm.com on Riefenstahl's influence on post-modern cinema: "Leni's Body beautiful" by By D. L. Booth