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Fantastic Fest Review: Antichrist

30 September 2009 7:48 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

When Lars von Trier co-wrote the Dogme 95 manifesto quite some time ago with fellow European filmmakers, he mandated that, for a film to receive the Dogme 95 seal of approval, it mustn’t include any credit given toward the director anywhere in the film. The goal, implicitly, was to remove film from the baggage that a famous director’s cult of personality carries, undermining the role of the auteur and acknowledging film as a collaborative creative experience rather than some manifestation of a vision articulated by a single artistic mind. Almost ten years after von Trier’s own Dogme 95 entry hit screens (the frustratingly commercially unavailable The Idiots (2000)), the director seems to have abandoned this radical idea entirely, as the opening seconds of his newest, the unavoidably controversial Antichrist, features his name in big letters scrawled across the screen (without the expected “directed by” or “a film by” credit). This decade-long 180 by the director is indicative of von »

- Landon Palmer

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Ricky D Conceicao: Founder & Creator

30 September 2009 12:37 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Ricky D is the founder and creator of Sound on Sight. Due to contrary belief he has never attended any film school. Instead Ricky learned his craft from his eight years as a video store clerk and countless hours of watching Vcr porn and 70`s horror films. He has completed just over a dozen short films in which he produced, directed, edited and photographed. He has taken home various awards including best director, editor and camera man at various short film festivals. Whatever little free time he has is usually spent at the movies, reading comic books and spending time with his boyfriend and two puppies. His favorite film makers are Pier Paolo Pasolini, David Cronenberg, Lars Von Trier, Gus Van Sant, Paul Thomas Anderson, Billy Wilder, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock. His favorite films are Pulp Fiction, La Dolce Vita, Europa and Salo. He is currently working on a slasher film. »

- Ricky

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Lars Von Trier, Antichrist and Me

27 July 2009 6:04 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

I've had many strange moments with Lars "Von" Trier. I sat, soaking wet, in a thunderstorm at an outdoor cinema in Australia and cried like a baby at the end of Dancer in the Dark, I laughed so inappropriately at the orgy scene in  The Idiots that I had to leave the cinema until it was over and I still can't watch the end of Breaking the Waves with anyone else in the room as it remains, for me, one of the most powerful moments of my cinema life. It's interesting to look back at Von Trier's life before his films because in many ways it is as bizarre, hectic and sad as anything he has put to screen. Raised in Denmark, Von Trier's (some what) communist, nudist parents believed that rules and discipline were counter productive aspects of growing up and the little "Von" is thought to have had free reign. »

- Neil Innes

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Blu-ray Review: Last Year at Marienbad (Criterion Collection)

23 June 2009 3:19 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Storybooks with happy endings are for children. Adults know that stories keep on unfolding, repeating, turning back on themselves, on and on until that end that no story can evade. ~ Roger Ebert writing about Last Year at Marienbad in 1999 Just recently I heard Peter Cowie refer to Last Year at Marienbad in an interview I was watching related to Ingmar Bergman's The Silence due to Bergman's shooting of long corridors in that film. Another film I thought of while watching Criterion's newly released Blu-ray of Marienbad was Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, only to hear Ginette Vincendeau reference Kubrick's classic in her 23-minute conversation on Marienbad in the supplemental material. Dave Kehr points out at The New York Times, Kubrick also paid the film another homage by dropping "a spaceman down into one of the baroque bedchambers of Marienbad at the end of 2001." Read most any opinion of director »

- Brad Brevet

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Cannes Winners for 2009

25 May 2009 4:49 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Official Competition

Jury president was French actress, deity, provocateur Isabelle Huppert

Palme D'or: The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke. Cannes loves him long time. And so does Isabelle Huppert, his La Pianiste leading lady. Sony Pictures Classics has Us distribution rights to this black and white costume drama about German village and school prior to World War I. It sounds like something of a departure for Haneke since his films are usually contemporary and often tightly focused on small casts. The extensive German voiceover will be rerecorded in English for that release.

Michael Haneke nabs the top prize

Grand Prix: Un Prophète by Jacques Audiard. Sony Pictures Classics also has this one -- winner and runner up prepping for release? Not bad, Spc, not bad.

Jury Prize: It was a tie between the family drama Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold and vampire drama Thirst from Oldboy director Park Chan-Wook

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- NATHANIEL R

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'Antichrist' Making Waves at Cannes

19 May 2009 9:27 AM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »

The biggest news coming out of the the Cannes Film Festival is director Lars Von Trier (Europa, Breaking the Waves) stirring up trouble with bloody masturbation and leg-drilling. At a news conference held yesterday, Von Trier attempted to retain his artistic dignity while members of the press apparantly gave him a hard time about the explicit 'sexual gore' in his latest film, Antichrist. Hit the jump for the full story. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Von Trier responded to his verbal attackers by saying "I don't have to explain anything. You are all my guests here, not the other way round. I don't think about the audience when I make a film. I don't care. I make films for myself." Online... »

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Lars Von Trier Shocks Cannes

18 May 2009 6:13 AM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »

Cannes loves to shock. And it loves those who shock the world. Danish director Lars Von Trier - who rose to fame with his early "Epidemic" and "Europa" and recaptured the magic of pure cinema with his Dogme 95 which suggested a return to natural lighting, prop-less sets and hand-held photography - came back to the 62nd edition of the Festival with "Antichrist".... »

- Gautaman Bhaskaran

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This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: March 31, 2009

31 March 2009 2:14 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

DVD Links: DVD News | Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed As I am typing this up I am completing my tour of the five most recent James Bond Blu-rays released last week. I have already watched Goldfinger, Moonraker, The World is Not Enough and Quantum of Solace and I am watching Never Say Never Again for the first time with plans of watching Thunderball immediately afterward. I am sure many of you know the story and why I will be watching Thunderball, but for those that don't, stay tuned as it will certainly be part of my Bond Blu-ray Round-Up Part Two. If you missed the first one you can read it here. As for what else is on my plate I just received the new Blu-ray copy of No Country for Old Men as well as Doubt. I am also interested in taking a peek at Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra, »

- Brad Brevet

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