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Directors of the Decade: Lars von Trier
27 November 2009 3:39 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Robert here, continuing my series of the directors that shaped the past 10 years. I know I promised another Pixar guy last week and we’ll get to him soon. But since everyone just finished celebrating the ultimate American holiday, I thought I’d appropriately take a look at one of the country’s greatest cinematic cheerleaders. A man who has never been to America but makes so many films about it, it's obvious he really loves the place. Lars von Trier
Number of Films: Six (or Five and a half, considering a co-director credit)
Modern Masterpieces: Probably none. I feel like I’ve been overly generous with this term since I denied it to Scorsese back in entry #1. Still the film that comes closest is Dogville
Total Disasters: No total disasters but several partial ones.
Better than you remember: None. Actually all of Von Trier’s films this decade have been pretty accurately received. »
- Robert
Nathaniel Thanks You
26 November 2009 5:00 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
I am surely in a friend & food coma while you're reading this. Happily so! This Thanksgiving I'm grateful for all of you. You keep coming back daily to read the latest cinematic musings here at The Film Experience. Obsessing on the movies is really meant to be a team sport so I appreciate the fine company. They don't make movie theaters with one seat in them.
So thank you for being here daily from all over the world -- not just the States -- with an especially amorphous shout out to readers in Canada, the UK, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Spain, France, Mexico and The Philippines. You've always been supportive. And a big hug to my magical elves contributors who've really helped keep the blog going during a difficult year.
Normal programming resumes tomorrow but I must give thanks to the following sources of cinematic happiness at the moment: ambiguous endings, »
- NATHANIEL R
"I Don't Hate Women": Lars von Trier on Antichrist
23 November 2009 12:03 PM, PST | Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news »
Danish auteur Lars von Trier is used to controversy following his films; some of his critics have even accused him of courting it for sensationalism and reaction. Yet even with a career that contains the likes of The Idiots (rich kids mocking the handicapped), Dancer in the Dark (which drove star Bjork to never act again) and Dogville (leveled with charges of misogyny and anti-Americanism), the director's latest may be his crowning achievement in outrage. When it debuted at Cannes earlier this year, Antichrist -- starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a grieving couple who retreat to idyllic woodland... »
Exclusive Interview: Chris Alexander talks to Lars Von Trier about Antichrist
12 November 2009 8:33 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
One of my favorite contemporary filmmakers has long been Danish enfant terrible Lars Von Trier. From the wrenching delirium of Breaking The Waves, to the vulgar, experimental excess of The Idiots, to the haunting musical melodrama of Dancer In The Dark to the mad stunt Dogville, there really is no one else alive like Von Trier...and he knows it.
And now he's made a horror film.
Perhaps you've heard of Antichrist, the mind bending, soul wounding art house exploitation masterpiece starring singer turned actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of Jane Birkin and iconic French pop culture figure Serge Gainsbourg) as a woman driven into sexually charged madness - and beyond - by the accidental death of her toddler son.
Read my review of the film here and check out Fangoria's coverage of the film in the current issue.
Imagine my surprise then, when the opportunity arose for me to interview my living idol, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
Exclusive Interview: Chris Alexander talks to Lars Von Trier about Antichrist
12 November 2009 8:33 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
One of my favorite contemporary filmmakers has long been Danish enfant terrible Lars Von Trier. From the wrenching delirium of Breaking The Waves, to the vulgar, experimental excess of The Idiots, to the haunting musical melodrama of Dancer In The Dark to the mad stunt Dogville, there really is no one else alive like Von Trier...and he knows it.
And now he's made a horror film.
Perhaps you've heard of Antichrist, the mind bending, soul wounding art house exploitation masterpiece starring singer turned actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of Jane Birkin and iconic French pop culture figure Serge Gainsbourg) as a woman driven into sexually charged madness - and beyond - by the accidental death of her toddler son.
Read my review of the film here and check out Fangoria's coverage of the film in the current issue.
Imagine my surprise then, when the opportunity arose for me to interview my living idol, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
Exclusive Interview: Chris Alexander talks to Lars Von Trier about Antichrist
12 November 2009 8:33 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
One of my favorite contemporary filmmakers has long been Danish enfant terrible Lars Von Trier. From the wrenching delirium of Breaking The Waves, to the vulgar, experimental excess of The Idiots, to the haunting musical melodrama of Dancer In The Dark to the mad stunt Dogville, there really is no one else alive like Von Trier...and he knows it.
And now he's made a horror film.
Perhaps you've heard of Antichrist, the mind bending, soul wounding art house exploitation masterpiece starring singer turned actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of Jane Birkin and iconic French pop culture figure Serge Gainsbourg) as a woman driven into sexually charged madness - and beyond - by the accidental death of her toddler son.
Read my review of the film here and check out Fangoria's coverage of the film in the current issue.
Imagine my surprise then, when the opportunity arose for me to interview my living idol, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
Exclusive Interview: Chris Alexander talks to Lars Von Trier about Antichrist
12 November 2009 8:33 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
One of my favorite contemporary filmmakers has long been Danish enfant terrible Lars Von Trier. From the wrenching delirium of Breaking The Waves, to the vulgar, experimental excess of The Idiots, to the haunting musical melodrama of Dancer In The Dark to the mad stunt Dogville, there really is no one else alive like Von Trier...and he knows it.
And now he's made a horror film.
Perhaps you've heard of Antichrist, the mind bending, soul wounding art house exploitation masterpiece starring singer turned actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of Jane Birkin and iconic French pop culture figure Serge Gainsbourg) as a woman driven into sexually charged madness - and beyond - by the accidental death of her toddler son.
Read my review of the film here and check out Fangoria's coverage of the film in the current issue.
Imagine my surprise then, when the opportunity arose for me to interview my living idol, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
Exclusive Interview: Chris Alexander talks to Lars Von Trier about Antichrist
12 November 2009 8:33 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
One of my favorite contemporary filmmakers has long been Danish enfant terrible Lars Von Trier. From the wrenching delirium of Breaking The Waves, to the vulgar, experimental excess of The Idiots, to the haunting musical melodrama of Dancer In The Dark to the mad stunt Dogville, there really is no one else alive like Von Trier...and he knows it.
And now he's made a horror film.
Perhaps you've heard of Antichrist, the mind bending, soul wounding art house exploitation masterpiece starring singer turned actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of Jane Birkin and iconic French pop culture figure Serge Gainsbourg) as a woman driven into sexually charged madness - and beyond - by the accidental death of her toddler son.
Read my review of the film here and check out Fangoria's coverage of the film in the current issue.
Imagine my surprise then, when the opportunity arose for me to interview my living idol, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
tMF Perspectives: Lars von Trier's Antichrist, Roger Ebert and Dogville's 'Poetic effect'!
25 October 2009 6:26 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
If you're going to ask me who is one of today's most controversial filmmakers, I would not hesitate with my answer: Lars von Trier. His latest film, Antichrist, "managed consistent sell-outs in New York City" [ INDIEWire reports ]. In addition to the box office results, there are two particular reviews I'm very interested about: CNN's and Roger Ebert's... - - -
- - - CNN called the movie 'an atrocity', while Roger Ebert, who once wrote a scathing review of von Trier's Dogville [ more about this Golden Palm winner after the jump], has this to say:
More than anything else, I responded to the performances. Feature films may be fiction, but they are certainly documentaries showing actors in front of a camera. Both Dafoe and Gainsbourg have been risk takers, as anyone working with von Trier must be. The ways they're called upon to act in this film are extraordinary. They respond without hesitation. More important, they convince. [ read more ]
The trailer and »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Perspectives: Lars von Trier's Antichrist, Roger Ebert and Dogville's 'Poetic effect'!
25 October 2009 6:26 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
If you're going to ask me who is one of today's most controversial filmmakers, I would not hesitate with my answer: Lars von Trier. His latest film, Antichrist, "managed consistent sell-outs in New York City" [ INDIEWire reports ]. In addition to the box office results, there are two particular reviews I'm very interested about: CNN's and Roger Ebert's... - - -
- - - CNN called the movie 'an atrocity', while Roger Ebert, who once wrote a scathing review of von Trier's Dogville [ more about this Golden Palm winner after the jump], has this to say:
More than anything else, I responded to the performances. Feature films may be fiction, but they are certainly documentaries showing actors in front of a camera. Both Dafoe and Gainsbourg have been risk takers, as anyone working with von Trier must be. The ways they're called upon to act in this film are extraordinary. They respond without hesitation. More important, they convince. [ read more ]
The trailer and »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Perspectives: Lars von Trier's Antichrist, Roger Ebert and Dogville's 'Poetic effect'!
25 October 2009 6:26 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
If you're going to ask me who is one of today's most controversial filmmakers, I would not hesitate with my answer: Lars von Trier. His latest film, Antichrist, "managed consistent sell-outs in New York City" [ INDIEWire reports ]. In addition to the box office results, there are two particular reviews I'm very interested about: CNN's and Roger Ebert's... - - -
- - - CNN called the movie 'an atrocity', while Roger Ebert, who once wrote a scathing review of von Trier's Dogville [ more about this Golden Palm winner after the jump], has this to say:
More than anything else, I responded to the performances. Feature films may be fiction, but they are certainly documentaries showing actors in front of a camera. Both Dafoe and Gainsbourg have been risk takers, as anyone working with von Trier must be. The ways they're called upon to act in this film are extraordinary. They respond without hesitation. More important, they convince. [ read more ]
The trailer and »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Perspectives: Lars von Trier's Antichrist, Roger Ebert and Dogville's 'Poetic effect'!
25 October 2009 6:26 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
If you're going to ask me who is one of today's most controversial filmmakers, I would not hesitate with my answer: Lars von Trier. His latest film, Antichrist, "managed consistent sell-outs in New York City" [ INDIEWire reports ]. In addition to the box office results, there are two particular reviews I'm very interested about: CNN's and Roger Ebert's... - - -
- - - CNN called the movie 'an atrocity', while Roger Ebert, who once wrote a scathing review of von Trier's Dogville [ more about this Golden Palm winner after the jump], has this to say:
More than anything else, I responded to the performances. Feature films may be fiction, but they are certainly documentaries showing actors in front of a camera. Both Dafoe and Gainsbourg have been risk takers, as anyone working with von Trier must be. The ways they're called upon to act in this film are extraordinary. They respond without hesitation. More important, they convince. [ read more ]
The trailer and »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
'Antichrist': Lost In The Woods, By Kurt Loder
23 October 2009 6:51 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
The movie that scandalized Cannes finally arrives Stateside. Your move.
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe in .Antichrist.
Photo: Zentropa Entertainments
Lars Von Trier's "Antichrist" is a curious mash-up of cutting-edge torture-porn and good old porn-porn that fails on both fronts. Despite some wild gore touches that might draw gasps of admiration from the likes of Eli Roth, the picture is too preoccupied with Von Trier's dismal deep thoughts to exert the crass visceral grip an effective splatter flick requires. And despite a few graphic sex shots, the movie is coldly anti-erotic. What it most precisely evokes are the art-film pretensions of the early 1960s, when European auteurs could get away with a line like "acorns don't cry" and American aficionados were disinclined to complain. (Imagine how those old Resnais and Antonioni head-scratchers might have been enlivened by a few strategically placed insertion shots!) The movie's most problematic aspect, though, »
In Theaters: Antichrist
21 October 2009 2:30 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
The films of Lars von Trier, the brilliant, bellicose Danish director of The Idiots, Breaking the Waves and Dogville. Von Trier's work -- sometimes uneven and grasping, often sustained and commanding -- aspires to the condition of exquisite, immersive poetry, that is, to be felt, rather than questioned, analyzed, critiqued. His dark fables of human extremity intend to swallow, if not defy digestion. Which is why, when the first, trembling reports began filtering out of Cannes about Antichrist, the first thing I felt was envy. With von Trier's films especially I strive for an ascetically clean slate, and I wouldn't have that pure experience now -- I might never know my true reaction -- because von Trier had clearly made a film that would become unavoidable. And yet having seen the film, my envy was somewhat allayed: I can't be certain, but I suspect my reaction in France would have »
89,000 cases of rape were reported in United States last year
21 October 2009 11:40 AM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Bringing a splash of Hollywood glamour to Capitol Hill, Australian movie star Nicole Kidman has testified before lawmakers as part of her effort to stop violence against women around the world.Kidman, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem), told Congress on Wednesday that violence against women and girls was "perhaps the most systematic, widespread human rights violation in the world."I am far from an expert, I rely on the people I've met to make the case," admitted the actress, adding that it "recognizes no borders, no race or class."Representatives at a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee have been hearing testimony as they debate the International Violence Against Women Act, which could influence Us foreign policy in relations with countries where women's rights are not respected.Kidman said systematic rape in ethnic conflict, forced marriage at an early age »
Sexual Perversity in Denmark: An Interview with Lars von Trier
21 October 2009 4:41 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
What does it take to be hailed the bad boy of Danish cinema? Among other feats, Lars von Trier co-signed the Dogme 95 manifesto, forcing regimented rules upon filmmakers in a cry for anti-blockbuster honesty. His own entry, "The Idiots," pissed people off for featuring able-bodied adults pretending to find their "inner spazz." He began two trilogies he has no intention of finishing (though one of the main actors from "The Kingdom" died after Part II), and forced aging mentor Jørgen Leth to remake his own short film with multiple sets of no-win restrictions in the experimental doc "The Five Obstructions." More notoriously, von Trier has plucked amazing performances out of actresses who don't seem to want to work with him again, including Nicole Kidman (who blamed scheduling problems for why she couldn't reprise her lead role in "Dogville" in the sequel "Manderlay") and "Dancer in the Dark" star Björk, who »
- Aaron Hillis
No More Happy Endings for Lars von Trier.
16 October 2009 2:17 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The director of gut-wrenching films such as Dancer In The Dark, chalk line experimental films about America (Dogville), and the co-founder of a movement of pure cinema known as Dogma, Lars Von Trier returns to the realm of Science Fiction with a psychological disaster film called Planet Melancholia. The title refers to an enormous planet illustrated on the press release that looms threateningly close to Earth. Budgeted at around E5 million ($7 million), the film is set for a European 2010 shoot. Casting of international cast is currently under way and the film will be shot in English. As for what he's going for with the film, he had only one thing to say: "No more happy endings!" Yes, because von Trier's work up to this point has always ended on a bright note. More intriguing is the note from producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen, who said the film will feature "a mix of spectacular, »
- Ricky
Nyff: Antichrist
1 October 2009 3:45 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
Lars von Trier has always been international cinema's enfant terrible provocateur, but with his latest, Antichrist, he has truly outdone himself. Antichrist is the story of a couple whose young child dies; grieving after, the husband, a therapist (Willem Dafoe) makes the bright decision to take his depressed wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) out into the woods, so that she can confront her worst fears there. If the title doesn't give you enough of a hint, suffice it to say that things do not end well. In the past, von Trier's provocations have always felt like a necessary, powerful pushing of his thematic points (especially in Dogville, his masterpiece), but in Antichrist one begins to get the feeling that the filmmaker's provocations are outrunning the films themselves. In Dogville or Breaking the Waves, the provocations felt earned, which is not the case here. After the jarring climax and denouement, critics were treated »
Tiff Takeaway: America the Unbeautiful
20 September 2009 12:49 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Tiff 2009 is the year America took it on the chin. In past fests, especially Cannes, we could usually thank Lars Von Trier for savaging the U.S. in such wicked parables as Dogville. But this time around it's mostly American filmmakers who find the amber waves have turned, well, brown. At the same time the Americans have delivered razor-smart entertainments that double as spot-on reports about the zeitgeist. The Joneses from first-time director Derrick Borte states its case against American consumerism like some fire and brimstone sermon. Meet the titular handsome family of four (Demi Moore, David Duchovny and their offspring, Amber Heard and Ben Hollingsworth) as they take up residence in a spanking new McMansion in some gated enclave. It soon becomes creepily apparent we're dealing with a faux family that's been... »
- Erica Abeel
Nocturnal Admissions: Movie Review - Antichrist
14 September 2009 11:45 PM, PDT | Quick Stop | See recent Quick Stop news »
(Antichrist will be discussed in detail in this review.)
First off, Lars von Trier’s Antichrist is one of the best films of the year, if not the decade.
Not many are going to share this opinion, which is really a fact. Antichrist has once again sparked a current of reaction and rebellion to von Trier and his work, already always controversial. But it’s difficult to understand what exactly it is that people, or at least critics, have against von Trier. His public pronouncements seem to irritate them. His threshold-stretching films seem to make them uncomfortable, as do the similarly provocative films of Michael Haneke and Gaspar Noe, all of whom had films at the 2009 Cannes film festival. The general attitude seems to be that von Trier is something of a fraud, playing with ideas like an uncomprehending child with letter block toys. Antichrist isn’t the first film »
- dkholm
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