Lars von Trier

Melancholia

The Year in Film: People of the Year

Or: The Netflix meltdown, the resurrection of Harvey Weinstein, and Kristen Wiig's box office coup all in one list

The Year in Film: Handicapping the Poll

Sure, The Tree of Life won, but did it really win?

Harvey Weinstein is Back -- NY Film Critics

The big news to emerge from yesterday's New York Film Critics Circle voting--held early this year to scoop the other year end awards--is, of course, the second coming of homeboy Harvey Weinstein. Not only was The Artist voted best picture and its director Michel Hazanavicius anointed Best Director ... More >>

Not With a Whimper But a Bang: The End Times of Melancholia

Elysian Fields

Watch Out, Galliano! There's a New Hitler Lover In Town!

​For some reason, creative visionaries have felt emboldened to spill their deep, dark admiration for Adolf Hitler in public lately. First, designer John Galliano was ruined for screaming such thoughts at someone he felt deserved to be in an oven. And now, filmmaker Lars von Trier has been ba ... More >>

The Red Chapel

Valhalla Rising, Where the One-Eyed Man Is King. Or Something.

The Red Chapel

DOIN’ IT DOGMA-STYLE

Art-house porn at MonkeyTown

Lars von Trier's Antichrist Puts Us Through the Wringer

With Antichrist, Charlotte Gainsbourg Rises

An interview with Cannes's 2009 Best Actress

Five Must-See Films From the New York Film Festival

Gossip About Avatar, Fame, and Antichrist!

Fame, the musical is watered-down, unlike von Trier's Antichrist.

Letters

A Final Report from the Cannes Film Festival 2009

This time, it's visceral

Cannes Film Festival 2009, Closing Credits: Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void, Haneke's The White Ribbon, and More

Our longtime film critic J. Hoberman spent this year's Cannes filing regular dispatches. This is his last one. Enter the Void Memorable for its in-your-face sensationalism, the 62nd Cannes Film Festival opened with the 3-D computer animation Up, saving the "Yours" for the final minutes of the comp ... More >>

Week in Review: "I Am the Best Filmmaker in the World."

Nate "Igor" SmithFun times at Roxy Cottontail's party. This is what Zach's birthday dinner looked like too. In the week that both Zach and Roxy Cottontail celebrated their birthdays, Rob posted a great moment in Wu-based subway-ad vandalism that became a whole shitload of peoples' Facebook profile ... More >>

Lars von Trier's Antichrist Can't Save this Year's Cannes

Who's the Boss?

In his latest, a 'comedy,' Lars von Trier asks: Is it man or machine?

Rack Focus

Plantation Nation

Redundant Dogville sequel dilutes the vitriol for a didactic tale of democracy gone awry

Film

Surprise: Film with Von Trier Screenplay Satirizes American Idiocy

Safety First

Stocked with old favorites, a conservative Cannes proves Newton's Third Law of Motion

Film

The Grace Of Wrath

Failed Christian charity, Old Testament payback: A Danish director's American tragedy

A Passion for Provocation

Lars von Trier's Dogville is a Christian allegory—with a bite

No Longer Enfant, Still Terrible

European cinema's greatest agitator rethinks sin and virtue through extreme melodrama

Performance Anxiety

Paul Bettany explains the method in his director-tormentor's madness

900 Lights and a 50-Pound Lars-Cam

Cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle on creating beauty amid brutality

Von Trier's Spookily Loopy Kingdom Gets Stephen King-ified

Film

Of Human Bondage: Dogme Godfather Braves an Obstruction Course

Roads to Perdition

Doomsday Visions and Ugly Americans at the Cannes Film Festival

Sim City

Indulging in Cannes's Desserts of the Reel

Taking Wing

Heights of Achievement

Trauma Centers

Let Their Freak Flags Fly

See Me, Feel Me

Negative Space

Flashback: The Year in Movies

Making Whoopee

Stage Frightful

Darkness Visible

Picture This

Thrillers! Satires! Westerns! Indies! Blockbusters! Sequels!

Tough Sells and Transported Cinephiles

In the Cannes

Arrested Development

Come On In, the Mainstream's Fine

Dogma Days

Truth Be Told