Agonies of an ‘Antichrist’: Lars von Trier in the Forest of Unreason

By Stephen Rylance

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. [30 October 2009]

Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

By PopMatters Staff

That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists. [22 June 2007]

Katrin Cartlidge: The Working Actress

By Matt Mazur

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. [29 August 2008]

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Antichrist

By Todd R. Ramlow

Antichrist in many ways seems Lars Von Trier's rejoinder to the criticism that he "hates women," as if daring us to watch what we expect to see. [23 October 2009]

The Boss of It All

By Josh Timmermann

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. [18 October 2007]

Manderlay (2005)

By Jesse Hicks

Lars Von Trier resists few opportunities to deride the capitalist system that breeds a permanent underclass of wage slaves. [10 February 2006]

Dogville (2003)

By Todd R. Ramlow

The accusation that the film is 'anti-American' says less about Von Trier than it does about the American psyche. [15 April 2004]

Medea (1987)

By Chris Elliot

Passion drives Lars von Trier's Medea. [2 June 2003]

The Idiots (1998)

By Sabadino Parker

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

By Todd R. Ramlow

'Dancer in the Dark', for all its fantastical musical excursions and all its tear-jerkiness nevertheless brings home the sobering reminder that justice does not always prevail.

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

By Lucas Hilderbrand

It seems only a film as schizophrenic as 'Dancer in the Dark' would suit Björk, what with its melancholic moments of quiet and curious explosions of sound.

Short Ends and Leader: ‘Antichrist’ is an Ambitious, Audacious Masterpiece

Mixed Media: “Anti Christ” dir. Lars von Trier (trailer)