Slamdance Interview: The 23-Year Wait for Bliss

Inside the unexpected sequel to 2001's Virgil Bliss

"...was happening with John Cassevetes and Mike Leigh and Lars Von Trier, and then Thomas Vinterberg made The Celebration,..."

Jan. 23, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Contemporary Prometheus in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster

Bomani J. Story retells Frankenstein as a Black horror

"...Aronofsky,” Story said before delving into the influence of Lars Von Trier, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, and Austin’s own..."

March 11, 2023 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra

You Don't Nomi

Should you re-assess Showgirls? No, but that's not what's happening here?

"...terrible, and began to look more and more like Lars von Trier (at his most misanthropic) had somehow managed..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

And Then We Danced

Georgian coming-out-drama is extraordinary only for its location

"...all this transpires is somewhere between soap opera and Lars von Trier-level on-the-nose storytelling)...."

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Climax

Gaspar Noé's acid freakout dance-a-thon teaches us that drugs are bad, m'kay

"...Noé hasn't even reached the preposterous pretentiousness of Lars von Trier, who is at least interesting in his..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Nicole Kidman, Still To Die For

How the Australian A-lister stays true to her indie roots

"...actress whose collaborators have included visionaries like Jane Campion, Lars von Trier, Baz Luhrmann, and the late Stanley Kubrick..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Britt Hayes

Start Your Week With Magnolia Mondays

Violet Crown season highlights the indie powerhouse

"...Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love (Feb. 11 & 18), Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (Feb. 25 & March 4), and..."

Jan. 14, 2019 Screens Post by Britt Hayes

The House That Jack Built

Lars von Trier, back pushing buttons, to little response

"...Directed by: Lars von Trier. Starring: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman,..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ex-Melvins Confederate Mark Deutrom Achieves Artistic Equilibrium

Longtime local learns The Value of Decay

"...Jennifer Deutrom, whose credits include Richard Linklater's Waking Life, Lars von Trier's The Five Obstructions, and the Adult Swim..."

June 22, 2018 Music Feature by Michael Toland

The Trauma of Thanksgiving Films

Or, how to alienate your family this holiday season

"...a cannibal in veterinary school" film Raw, or perhaps Lars von Trier's Antichrist, because nothing screams holiday cheer like..."

Nov. 24, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

DVDanger: Brawl in Cell Block 99

Vince Vaughn and Udo Kier on being the heavy

"...dissident cinema, is a favorite of radical directors like Lars von Trier and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Few living actors..."

Oct. 15, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Tis the Season

Something wicked this way screens

"...out the series is, oh boy, a film by Lars von Trier. I remember hosting a screening of Antichrist..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Super Dark Times

Fantastic Fest 2017 preview

"...look: Super Dark Times is less Stranger Things, more Lars von Trier's Antichrist. Director Kevin Phillips said, "Cinema for..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

From Dada to Dogme

Julian Rosefeldt’s ambitious Manifesto showcases the prowess of Cate Blanchett

"...artistic manifestos from surrealist writer and anti-fascist André Breton, Lars von Trier's "Dogme 95" filmmaking rules, theorists Karl Marx..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Protextor’s Fleshlight-Funded Video

“Safe consensual sex is hot”

"...style owing more to filmmakers like Stan Brakhage and Lars von Trier than Bang Bros. The lights-on realism is..."

Jan. 3, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Men & Chicken

Danish black comedy is a nimble tone-shifter

"...think the film was a dare by fellow countryman Lars von Trier (see The Five Obstructions). But in Jensen’s..."

April 29, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

3 Hearts

A French love triangle loses its balance

"...reason, she was perfectly cast as the object of Lars von Trier’s misogynistic sexual fantasies in the deplorable Nymphomaniac..."

April 3, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Steve Davis' Top 10 List

"...Worst Film Lars von Trier's fraudulent Nymphomaniac: Vol. I and II –..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

Fantastic Fest: Ten Years, Ten Unforgettable Moments

"...2009: Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Tom Six's Human Centipede premiere. Chaos..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Gives Us the Horns

Daniel Radcliffe's latest heads up final wave of films

"...FF hero Scott Weinberg, pits the globe’s greatest horror scholars against one another in a galactic display of mental..."

Sept. 10, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Joe Swanberg's Horrible Times

Parental perils in Proxy and The Sacrament

"...in Melanie's responses. Like a less arch and salacious Lars von Trier (there is a violent sequence in slow..."

Aug. 23, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: NSFW

The return of Eurosex with 'Nymphomaniac' and 'Under the Skin'

"...In a strange echo, Lars von Trier turns his longtime muse Charlotte Gainsbourg into..."

July 19, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch: 'Jodorowsky's Dune'

Documentary about a film that never was heads this week's releases

"...Nymphomanic Vol 1 & Vol 2 (Magnolia) Lars Von Trier does what Kubrick tried but never managed:..."

July 8, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Nothing Bad Can Happen

The title is grimly ironic: In fact, a whole lot of bad things happen in this German horror film.

"...hold a tight grip, evocative as it is of Lars von Trier’s similarly unflinching Dogville and equally bound to..."

June 27, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Nymphomaniac: Volume 2

Second verse, not as good as the first.

"...Directed by: Lars von Trier. Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stacy Martin, Stellan Skarsgård,..."

April 4, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nymphomaniac: Volume 1

Lars von Trier's latest provocation is more meditation than outright flagellation.

"...Directed by: Lars von Trier. Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin,..."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Twitter Has a Heyday With Shia LeBeouf

Some highlights from the dissection of 'HowardCantour.com'

"...has seemingly set out on a mission to take Lars Von Trier's title as "most controversial person involved in..."

Dec. 17, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Klown' on the Small Screen

Drafthouse distributing deranged Danish sitcom

"...it's the episode penned by everyone's favorite Danish misanthrope Lars von Trier? Well, it is...."

July 17, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Five Kaiju You'll Never See Coming

Before you see 'Pacific Rim,' expand your monster knowledge

"...and a little bit groteseque (imagine the cast of Lars von Trier's The Idiots but 1,000 feet tall.) His..."

July 11, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AFS Hosts ‘Oslo, August 31st,’ One of the Year’s Must-Sees

Joachim Trier’s second film is beautiful and brutal

"...31st is the second film from Scandinavian director Joachim Trier, following 2008’s kinetic Reprise. It’s about addiction, but it’s..."

Dec. 4, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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