Lars von Trier News

One needn't embrace the whole notion of making plays out of movies to recognize that, while each medium remains unique, after years of cross-fertilization there remain things to be learned.

While filming the perfect tempest that was his acclaimed 1996 work Breaking the Waves , Lars von Trier banded together with some of his avant-garde buds to form Dogme 95, a movement dedicated to cinematic ...

Has a James Bond movie ever been as cool as its title sequence? We've all felt the letdown when the 90 minutes that follow a film's credits don't live up to the cleverness of the opening two or three.

'The authors had done what they could on the last day. They had invented an incurable disease, described its spread, and based their work on the suffering of others.

What am I talking about? How about SIouxsie Sioux or Fab Kate Bush?.. Kate Bush in a Mike Leigh movie.

A groundbreaking "dark" musical by Danish director Lars von Trier -- groundbreaking, anyway, if you have forgotten about, or never knew about, The Threepenny Opera, Show Boat, Porgy and Bess, Carmen Jones, West ...

Every summer the three biggest short film festivals in North America open the doors of their air-conditioned movie theaters and entertain hordes of festival goers eager to check out the best short films the ...

SAMUEL FULLER & LARS VON TRIER Two of the world's most controversial filmmakers - Lars von Trier and Samuel Fuller - shake things up at Criterion this December.

Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg will star in Antichrist , to be directed by Lars von Trier, says Variety .

Nicole Kidman is hounded by pursuers in 'Dogville' If ever a filmmaker were ideally suited to the notion of movies-as-art, then Lars von Trier is that artist.

Danish helmer Lars von Trier has completed financing for his English-language horror pic "Antichrist," which is expected to start shooting shortly in Cologne, Germany.

Danish helmer Lars von Trier has completed financing for his English-language horror pic "Antichrist," which is expected to start shooting shortly in Cologne, Germany.

Danish helmer Lars von Trier has completed financing for his English-language horror pic "Antichrist," which is expected to start shooting shortly in Cologne, Germany.

Danish director Lars von Trier is nothing if not a rabble-rouser. His best-known films, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark and Dogville have inspired both critical praise and accusations of sadistic ...

Kingdom Hospital is a very odd place. As the opening sequence informs us, it was built on the site of the Gates Falls Mill, which burned to the ground in 1869, causing the horrible deaths of many of the ...

Lauren Bacall is a grande dame of the stage and a revered movie star, and her memoirs detail her relationships with some of Hollywood's giants.

Take two characters from an early Herman Hesse novel, plop them down into a mid-'60s Godard film from which all the color, humor, sexiness and political context have been drained, and you have "Reprise," the ...

There are too many films about writers. Which makes sense in a "write what you know" sort of way but dramatically, the artistic struggles of those who pluck away at typewriters and keyboards aren't particularly ...

CELEBRITY SHORTS June 12, 7:30 pm, Cumberland 3; June 14, 8:30 pm, Cumberland 1. Nobody likes a chatty cathy at the movies, but leave it to Danish director Lars von Trier to hit the nail on the head when it ...

If the subject matter - young men dreaming of fame and glory, talking obsessively about books and movies - doesn't tip you off that "Reprise" is Joachim Trier's first feature, then watching a few minutes of his ...