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The Golden Age II
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Lars von Trier didn't invent the Danish film industry, but he's a reminder of when Hollywood took its cue from Copenhagen.
IF THE DANISH FILM INDUSTRY WERE HOLLYWOOD, ITS history over the last century-plus could be viewed as having consisted of little between D.W. Griffith and Gus Van Sant, exception made for a reverential nod or two toward John Ford. Auteur comparisons within Europe might be equally jarring: The Danish answer to Sergei Eisenstein was Carl Theodor Dreyer, to Fritz Lang...
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ARE WE HAVING 'VON' YET? FILM HE'S BEEN CRIPPLED BY DEPRESSION, ACCUSED OF MISOGYNY AND HAD A FALLING OUT WITH BJORK. NO WONDER THE ICONOCLASTIC FILM-MAKER LARS VON TRIER HAS TURNED TO COMEDY FOR HIS NEXT PROJECT. 'I WANTED TO LIGHTEN UP A BIT,' HE TELLS STUART HUSBAND
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Received wisdom states that you should be wary of film directors with a 'von' in their name, as it invariably bespeaks a tendency toward the despotic. Think of Josef von Sternberg stalking his sets in kinky boots and wielding a riding crop, or Erich von Stroheim glaring imperiously through his
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Grand provocateur: Lars von Trier's war with himself.(Book Review)
Harper's Magazine
; ... particularly easy for a six-year-old. But there's even bigger news about Mom, especially for those of us who have wondered--given ... if we were to imagine, whether watching movies or the nightly news, that we were tied to the same responsibilities as are those ...
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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
; ... stepfather and only told Von Trier about it when she was dying. He says he wasn't angry with her for taking so long to break the news, then changes his mind. "It was very, very stupid not to tell me. Why spend a lot of hours on the sofa with a psychiatrist, trying ...
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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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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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Meet the punisher; Lars von Trier devastates audiences--and actresses.
Newsweek
; Byline: Dana Thomas Lars von Trier stretches out on the Louis XIV sofa in his hotel room in Trollhattan, Sweden, where he's just started his next film, Manderlay, and puts his hands behind his head. So, you are the shrink? he says to the reporter. It all started with my mother, it's true. The
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TOP DOG REVERED AS A VISIONARY AND REVILED AS A CINEMATIC SADIST, DIRECTOR LARS VON TRIER HAS EMERGED AS A GLOBAL STAR. BUT WITH HIS LATEST PROJECT HE MAY AT LAST BE OVERPLAYING HIS GREATEST ROLE - HIMSELF.
The Boston Globe
; ON A MAP OF THE cultural unconscious, you'd find Lars von Trier's "Dogville" a "Lottery" stone's throw from "Our Town," about two miles as the crow flies from "The Shining"'s Overlook Hotel, 20,000 leagues under Kafka's "Amerika," and the furthest conceivable distance from Middle Earth. Follow the
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FILM: Lars von Trier, nil. Jorgen Leth, five The Five Obstructions Jorgen Leth, Lars von Trier 90 MINS, 15
The Independent on Sunday
; For all the talk about his grand themes - redemption, abjection, female martyrdom - what's often forgotten about Denmark's master provocateur Lars von Trier is that he's first and foremost a games player. His films are invariably stylistic exercises, attempts to sustain an entire movie on a
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Lars von Trier tweaks America with 'Dogville'
Chicago Sun-Times
; 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
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VON TRIER'S 'DOGVILLE' A TOUGH TOWN
Rocky Mountain News
; The mythology of small towns comes under vicious attack in Lars von Trier's Dogville, a movie set in a tapped-out Colorado town during the Depression. When the fictional town of Dogville dares to look a gift horse in the mouth, it's severely punished for its greed, betrayals and boundless
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