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24 September 2008 12:20 PM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

<img src="http://www.quietearth.us/img/e/europa1.jpg" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="2" class="pictureborder" />Before polarizing audiences in America for martyrizing his female characters in Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, and Maderlay, Danish filmmaker, and founder of the famous Dogme 95 movement, Lars Vontrier, made a number of trippy Kafkaesque features that I personally find much more interesting than his American output. Criterion has released a couple of these films in the past (like Element of Crime) but since I've yet to see Europa, I'm pretty excited for it's double disc release on th eboutique label in December. The DVD will feature a bevy of documentaries, both past a new, on the production as well as a new commentary featuring Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen. Trailer and synopsis after the break. <br /> <br /> <b>Synopsis:</b><br /> <i>"You will now listen to my voice . . . On the count of ten you will be in Europa . . ." So begins Max von Sydow's opening narration to Lars von Trier’s hypnotic Europa (known in the U.

11 September 2008 8:19 AM, PDT | From FantasticFest.com | See recent FantasticFest news

When most folks think about Danish cinema, they think Lars Von Trier. He and his Dogma 95 cohorts dominated the scene in the 90s and into the current decade. Europa (Zentropa), Breaking The Waves and Dancer In The Dark all garnered critical acclaim and Lars Von Trier became the darlings of the international film festival circuit. Below the surface of this high-concept, somewhat cerebral identity of Danish cinema, there was also another scene developing below the radar of arthouse critics, the often overlooked world of genre film that we so wholeheartedly love here at Fantastic Fest.

Our pal Anthony Timpson from the Incredibly Strange Film Festival in New Zealand first turned us on to director Lasse Spang Olsen and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen's 1999 brilliant dark-comedy/action film In China They Eat Dogs. Since then, we've hungrily sought out as much Danish genre film as we could devour. Fantastic Fest programmers Blake Ethridge,

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2 articles from 2008