LARS VON TRIER

The importance of genre in order to define and categorise cinema has endured for over a century, stretching all the way back to the silent era with the ‘Cinema of Attractions’, which includes notable pictures such as The Great Train Robbery (1903). Most analysts would recognise the ‘Cinema of Attractions’ as products of avant-garde filmmaking, during a period when the potential for storytelling on film was being explored for the very first time. In contemporary and commercial cinema however...Read Full Story

Navigation: Weblog / Blog article: Video: Alexander Skarsgård on Lars von Trier’s Melancholia Posted by Lynnpd On November - 7 - 2011 2 COMMENTS Alexander Skarsgård’s Melancholia has been playing on VOD for the last month, and will be playing in New York and L.A., this Friday, November 11, which provides an opportunity to see it the way it’s meant to be seen, on the big screen. And then in other cities starting November 18. You can find out exactly where and when the...Read Full Story

My State of Film - Melancholia Denmark auteur Lars von Trier’s latest film, Melancholia , begins with a poetic overture filled with images that foreshadow what is to come at the end of the film.  The breathtaking mis-en-scene photographed by Manuel Claro captures an austere Victorian air starting with a lavish wedding and ending with the end of the world, literally. Von Trier takes us through the rapidly unraveling world of Justine who, it would seem, battles a crippling case of depression...Read Full Story

In late December, we can sum up the year 2011 . What kind of a year was it for us? Loud marriages and separations, the most vivid personalities, the most resonant scandals and the most noticeable losses – Geniusbeauty.com recalls everything what the year 2011 will be remembered for. Losses of the Year 2011 When public people die, this event always causes a public outcry. But the grief for a departed person rarely becomes international. Unfortunately, a lot of great actors, scientists...Read Full Story

Call it favoritism or cinematic nepotism, the working relationship between Lars Von Trier and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg is a fruitful one. The two have worked together on AntiChrist and Melancholia , and according to Variety , the two will work together again for a third movie titled, The Nymphomaniac . As you can guess, the movie will be an explicit exploration of a woman’s sexual life. I am guessing that it will make all of the sex scenes in AntiChrist look like child’s play. The film is...Read Full Story