Wednesday, September 14 2011
Toronto International Film Festival 2011: ‘Melancholia’
"The earth is evil. We don't need to grieve for it." So declares a luminous Kirsten Dunst in Danish provocateur Lars von Trier's best and most powerful film yet.
Tuesday, September 6 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 10: Josef Von Sternberg to Zhang Yimou
The final day of directors is here, Josef Von Sternberg through Zhang Yimou. German Expressionism, Dogme 95, contemporary views of Asian life, post-WWII malaise in Eastern Europe, and the alternately heartwarming and queer takes on everyday life in Baltimore all hold a space on today's list. Did we forget your favorite director on this list?
Friday, October 30 2009
Agonies of an ‘Antichrist’: Lars von Trier in the Forest of Unreason
Despite the efforts of some to dismiss it as a prank, Antichrist is a serious film and its disturbing extremes speak of broad and deeply felt moral, social, and ultimately, political anxieties.
Friday, July 17 2009
PREVIEW: Lars von Trier’s ‘Antichrist’
A glimpse into director Lars von Trier's most-talked about film to date.
Friday, August 29 2008
Katrin Cartlidge: The Working Actress
Whether it was through silence, grotesquerie, fury or intelligence (or, at times, lack of intelligence), Cartlidge was not afraid to upturn the dark corners of the women she portrayed.
Thursday, October 18 2007
The Boss of It All
The Boss of It All is the sort of middling, sporadically funny, sporadically dull art-house comedy that you keep wishing would ditch the art-house qualifier and just go for it, already.
Friday, February 10 2006
Manderlay (2005)
Lars Von Trier resists few opportunities to deride the capitalist system that breeds a permanent underclass of wage slaves.
Thursday, April 15 2004
Dogville (2003)
The accusation that the film is 'anti-American' says less about Von Trier than it does about the American psyche.
