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Lars von Trier tweaks America with 'Dogville'
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The Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier nostalgically recalls when he
first picked up a camera at age 12, gleefully shooting trees in the
forest. "I filmed everything and I was happy, but then later on, you
would have to meet people while you film and that's more
problematic," he said. "The beginning was joyful. It still is, too,
to a certain degree."
Von Trier is far from mainstream appeal -- you either love him or
hate him. His ambitious films are often centered on the awkward
outsider. ...
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Hot Danish; `Breaking the Waves' Director Lars von Trier May Be as Strange as His Mysterious Film
The Washington Post
; Like Greta Garbo, the Danish director Lars von Trier wants to be left alone. One of the most talented filmmakers working in Europe today, von Trier, 40, may not have Garbo's looks, but he is almost as reclusive. This maturing maverick of the Danish cinema is acclaimed abroad for four of his feature
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LARS VON TRIER
Metro : Media & Education Magazine
; JACK STEVENSON LARS VON TRIER London: British Film Institute World Directors Series, 2002 REVIEWED BY FELICITY COLMAN Once again began the ritual of von Trier's journey-or attempt thereof-down to Cannes. Would he make it in time? An entire nation held its collective breath as he set out on 13 May
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Film: Love, hate and rows with Bjork Secrets are a theme of Lars von Trier's award-winning film, Dancer in the Dark. But, as Charlotte O'Sullivan discovers on meeting the Danish director in Copenhagen, it's the secret his mother kept from him until her death that holds the key to his work
The Independent - London
; I'm perched in a doorway of an old army barracks in Copenhagen, disturbingly reminiscent of a set from The Avengers. I'm waiting for Lars von Trier, whose production company, Zentrope, is based there. I hear squealing tyres and a red open-top sports-car whizzes past. It contains von Trier and his
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Lights, camera... torture: And you thought Hollywood actors had it easy?
Scotland on Sunday
; NICOLE Kidman, Bjork and a donkey; a special kind of hell awaited all of these when they worked with Lars von Trier, cinema's self- proclaimed Mr Mad. In a Scandinavian film tradition that has lacked vivid personalities since the heyday of Ingmar Bergman, Von Trier comes in Technicolor; when he
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A WHOLE WORLD, IN CHALK AND PLYWOOD LARS VON TRIER IS KNOWN FOR HIS STRIPPED-DOWN FILM STYLE, BUT IN `DOGVILLE' HE WHITTLES DOWN THE PROCESS EVEN MORE, WITH JUST ACTORS, A STAGE, AND LITTLE ELSE
The Boston Globe
; If you watch the first few minutes of the three-hour film "Dogville" and don't get why there is no scenery and why the actors walk around on a near-empty stage with imaginary houses and streets marked off by chalk, the director doesn't really care. "Either you accept it or you don't, and if you
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