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Decade in Review: 2004 Top Ten
14 December 2009 6:56 PM, PST
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Moving on to 2004. What follows is my original top ten list, based on films released in NYC in 2004. If I have anything new to say that'll be in red after the original text.
Top Ten Runners Up (in descending order): Aviator, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Mean Girls, Maria Full of Grace, The Five Obstructions, Collateral, Goodbye Lenin!, Birth and Closer Yes, I'm absolutely horrified by the rankings now. Nothing about that ranking feels right now. I am most ashamed that Birth was only at number [cough] 19 in its year. In my self-flattering memory I "almost" put it in the top ten despite the then brutal reviews. I was ahead of my time! Oh well... at least I did actually name it the #1 most underappreciated film of the year. At the time I said...
Jonathan Glazer made a significant splash four years ago when his brilliantly acted heist film Sexy Beast
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Exclusive Interview: Chris Alexander talks to Lars Von Trier about Antichrist
12 November 2009 8:33 AM, PST
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One of my favorite contemporary filmmakers has long been Danish enfant terrible Lars Von Trier. From the wrenching delirium of Breaking The Waves, to the vulgar, experimental excess of The Idiots, to the haunting musical melodrama of Dancer In The Dark to the mad stunt Dogville, there really is no one else alive like Von Trier...and he knows it.
And now he's made a horror film.
Perhaps you've heard of Antichrist, the mind bending, soul wounding art house exploitation masterpiece starring singer turned actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of Jane Birkin and iconic French pop culture figure Serge Gainsbourg) as a woman driven into sexually charged madness - and beyond - by the accidental death of her toddler son.
Read my review of the film here and check out Fangoria's coverage of the film in the current issue.
Imagine my surprise then, when the opportunity arose for me to interview my living idol,
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Exclusive Interview: Chris Alexander talks to Lars Von Trier about Antichrist
12 November 2009 8:33 AM, PST
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One of my favorite contemporary filmmakers has long been Danish enfant terrible Lars Von Trier. From the wrenching delirium of Breaking The Waves, to the vulgar, experimental excess of The Idiots, to the haunting musical melodrama of Dancer In The Dark to the mad stunt Dogville, there really is no one else alive like Von Trier...and he knows it.
And now he's made a horror film.
Perhaps you've heard of Antichrist, the mind bending, soul wounding art house exploitation masterpiece starring singer turned actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of Jane Birkin and iconic French pop culture figure Serge Gainsbourg) as a woman driven into sexually charged madness - and beyond - by the accidental death of her toddler son.
Read my review of the film here and check out Fangoria's coverage of the film in the current issue.
Imagine my surprise then, when the opportunity arose for me to interview my living idol,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
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Exclusive Interview: Chris Alexander talks to Lars Von Trier about Antichrist
12 November 2009 8:33 AM, PST
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One of my favorite contemporary filmmakers has long been Danish enfant terrible Lars Von Trier. From the wrenching delirium of Breaking The Waves, to the vulgar, experimental excess of The Idiots, to the haunting musical melodrama of Dancer In The Dark to the mad stunt Dogville, there really is no one else alive like Von Trier...and he knows it.
And now he's made a horror film.
Perhaps you've heard of Antichrist, the mind bending, soul wounding art house exploitation masterpiece starring singer turned actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of Jane Birkin and iconic French pop culture figure Serge Gainsbourg) as a woman driven into sexually charged madness - and beyond - by the accidental death of her toddler son.
Read my review of the film here and check out Fangoria's coverage of the film in the current issue.
Imagine my surprise then, when the opportunity arose for me to interview my living idol,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
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Exclusive Interview: Chris Alexander talks to Lars Von Trier about Antichrist
12 November 2009 8:33 AM, PST
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One of my favorite contemporary filmmakers has long been Danish enfant terrible Lars Von Trier. From the wrenching delirium of Breaking The Waves, to the vulgar, experimental excess of The Idiots, to the haunting musical melodrama of Dancer In The Dark to the mad stunt Dogville, there really is no one else alive like Von Trier...and he knows it.
And now he's made a horror film.
Perhaps you've heard of Antichrist, the mind bending, soul wounding art house exploitation masterpiece starring singer turned actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of Jane Birkin and iconic French pop culture figure Serge Gainsbourg) as a woman driven into sexually charged madness - and beyond - by the accidental death of her toddler son.
Read my review of the film here and check out Fangoria's coverage of the film in the current issue.
Imagine my surprise then, when the opportunity arose for me to interview my living idol,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
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Exclusive Interview: Chris Alexander talks to Lars Von Trier about Antichrist
12 November 2009 8:33 AM, PST
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One of my favorite contemporary filmmakers has long been Danish enfant terrible Lars Von Trier. From the wrenching delirium of Breaking The Waves, to the vulgar, experimental excess of The Idiots, to the haunting musical melodrama of Dancer In The Dark to the mad stunt Dogville, there really is no one else alive like Von Trier...and he knows it.
And now he's made a horror film.
Perhaps you've heard of Antichrist, the mind bending, soul wounding art house exploitation masterpiece starring singer turned actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of Jane Birkin and iconic French pop culture figure Serge Gainsbourg) as a woman driven into sexually charged madness - and beyond - by the accidental death of her toddler son.
Read my review of the film here and check out Fangoria's coverage of the film in the current issue.
Imagine my surprise then, when the opportunity arose for me to interview my living idol,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
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Antichrist review (4/5) - Chaos reigns beautifully in this must see film.
22 October 2009 7:50 AM, PDT
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"Chaos reigns," says a bloodied fox midway into Danish film artist Lars von Trier's frightening couple-in-crisis drama "Antichrist" and the furry-tailed creature could not be more accurate. Like a horror movie, or more accurately an installment of the "Saw" series or Eli Roth's "Hostel," "Antichrist" offers its share of tortuous mutilation scenes. There are moments in "Antichrist" when I covered my eyes; something I've never done with a previous Von Trier film. But there are also many sequences of stunning photography, beautiful use of music, brave performances and a fascinating tale about parents dealing with devastating sorrow.
"Antichrist" has it all, beautiful art and ugly, shocking violence. A challenging film that's been splitting audiences since its debut at this year's Cannes Film Festival, "Antichrist" is further proof that one of the great joys for art-house moviegoers over the past 18 years has been watching and debating the challenging work of Von Trier.
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In Theaters: Antichrist
21 October 2009 2:30 PM, PDT
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The films of Lars von Trier, the brilliant, bellicose Danish director of The Idiots, Breaking the Waves and Dogville. Von Trier's work -- sometimes uneven and grasping, often sustained and commanding -- aspires to the condition of exquisite, immersive poetry, that is, to be felt, rather than questioned, analyzed, critiqued. His dark fables of human extremity intend to swallow, if not defy digestion. Which is why, when the first, trembling reports began filtering out of Cannes about Antichrist, the first thing I felt was envy. With von Trier's films especially I strive for an ascetically clean slate, and I wouldn't have that pure experience now -- I might never know my true reaction -- because von Trier had clearly made a film that would become unavoidable. And yet having seen the film, my envy was somewhat allayed: I can't be certain, but I suspect my reaction in France would have
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Sexual Perversity in Denmark: An Interview with Lars von Trier
21 October 2009 4:41 AM, PDT
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What does it take to be hailed the bad boy of Danish cinema? Among other feats, Lars von Trier co-signed the Dogme 95 manifesto, forcing regimented rules upon filmmakers in a cry for anti-blockbuster honesty. His own entry, "The Idiots," pissed people off for featuring able-bodied adults pretending to find their "inner spazz." He began two trilogies he has no intention of finishing (though one of the main actors from "The Kingdom" died after Part II), and forced aging mentor Jørgen Leth to remake his own short film with multiple sets of no-win restrictions in the experimental doc "The Five Obstructions." More notoriously, von Trier has plucked amazing performances out of actresses who don't seem to want to work with him again, including Nicole Kidman (who blamed scheduling problems for why she couldn't reprise her lead role in "Dogville" in the sequel "Manderlay") and "Dancer in the Dark" star Björk, who
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HuffPost Review: Antichrist: Humbuggery
20 October 2009 7:50 AM, PDT
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Somehow, a shovel seems a more appropriate implement for dealing with Lars von Trier's Antichrist than any sort of writing utensil.
While some critics describe the film as vile and disgusting, that sort of moral judgment seems beside the point when dealing with a bullshit artist like von Trier. Certainly Antichrist offers disturbing graphic images -- including one of Charlotte Gainsbourg performing a self-circumcision with a pair of scissors and another of her hitting hubby Willem Dafoe in the groin with a log so hard that his penis ejaculates blood.
Sorry -- I didn't say "spoiler alert" there. But this film is rancid long before it reaches that point.
Von Trier's crimes are ones of intellectual humbuggery. And that's been the case for much of his filmmaking career, whether it was the overpraised Breaking the Waves (a film whose saving grace is Emily
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- Marshall Fine
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Festival Du Nouveau Cinema: Antichrist
13 October 2009 8:30 PM, PDT
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Antichrist
Directed by Lars von Trier
Plunging headfirst into a realm of depraved evil, leaving behind him any and all polite norms of filmmaking (mainstream, independent or otherwise), Lars von Trier has unleashed his most audacious creation to date, which has been branded everything from “misogynistic” (according the Cannes` Ecumenical Jury, who awarded it a special “Anti-Prize”) to an elaborate joke on von Trier`s part. Make no mistake, however: Antichrist is deadly serious, both in intent and result. To consider it anything less than that – whether you find yourself disgusted or enthralled – is to misread both the film and von Trier`s intentions.
Written and directed during a protracted period of intense depression, and filmed with surprisingly lush digital photography, Antichrist opens with an undeniably memorable opening statement, a gorgeously wrought black-and-white sequence in which a toddler tumbles from a snowy balcony to die on the street below while
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Between Greatness and Boredom: Lars Von Trier Retrospective @ Cinéma du Parc
8 October 2009 6:04 AM, PDT
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Lars von Trier may be a self-confessed depressive, but 'schizophrenic' is the epithet which first springs to mind when trying to describe his films. So luckily for me - not a big Lars von Trier fan per se - there seems to be no such thing as a typical Lars von Trier film: from the brutal emotionality of Breaking the Waves (1996) to the bemused distaste left by The Idiots (1998) to the "when-will-it-be-over" of Medea (1988), each von Trier film seems to elicit from the viewer (i.e. me) a radically different reaction. Even the trilogies, supposedly held loosely together by a unifying central character type, come in styles as varied as the Dogme 95-abiding, ultra-realist The Idiots and the highly stylized magic realism of Dancer in the Dark (2000). It would thus seem an absurd enterprise to review the entiretyof von Trier's oeuvre as a monolithic whole bearing a trademark von Trier stamp.
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Stellan Skarsgård Joins “Thor”
5 October 2009 5:31 AM, PDT
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Stellan Skarsgård will star in Marvel Studios’ “Thor” according to the man himself through Swedish news site Ystads Allehanda.
Stellan is not the only Skarsgård linked to this Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of the Marvel comic adaptation. In early 2009, his son Alexander Skarsgard was listed among the potential candidates to portray the titular character, Thor. However, the younger Skarsgard lost the role to Chris Hemsworth, the actor who portrays Captain Kirk’s father in 2009’s “Star Trek”.
Everything is still secret about the project and Skarsgård can not reveal what role he will play.
“They wanted me to sign without reading the script. That I refused to do. Then they sent one to me that was so coded that I could only print one copy,”
said Stellan Skarsgård to Tt spectra.
At the center of the story is The Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war.
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Nyff: Antichrist
1 October 2009 3:45 AM, PDT
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Lars von Trier has always been international cinema's enfant terrible provocateur, but with his latest, Antichrist, he has truly outdone himself. Antichrist is the story of a couple whose young child dies; grieving after, the husband, a therapist (Willem Dafoe) makes the bright decision to take his depressed wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) out into the woods, so that she can confront her worst fears there. If the title doesn't give you enough of a hint, suffice it to say that things do not end well.
In the past, von Trier's provocations have always felt like a necessary, powerful pushing of his thematic points (especially in Dogville, his masterpiece), but in Antichrist one begins to get the feeling that the filmmaker's provocations are outrunning the films themselves. In Dogville or Breaking the Waves, the provocations felt earned, which is not the case here.
After the jarring climax and denouement, critics were treated
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Fantastic Fest ’09: Antichrist (Film Review)
25 September 2009 1:57 PM, PDT
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You will notice at the end of this review (or might have already, if you checked ahead) that I haven’t assigned a rating to Antichrist, the latest cinematic provocation by Danish director Lars von Trier (showing at the current Austin, TX Fantastic Fest and next Friday at the New York Film Festival, ahead of its limited release beginning October 23 from IFC). Some films elicit a response that defies easy encapsulation in one to four skulls (or stars, or whatever), and Antichrist is just such an experience.
For me, anyway; a number of critics who previously caught the movie at Cannes and other showcases have had no problems expressing their opinions. Some booed and others raved, while one British critic caused a minor on-line scandal by affirming that he would never see the film yet penning a lengthy pan anyway, just based on what he’d read about it. And on the surface,
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Tiff ‘09: Antichrist
24 September 2009 8:29 PM, PDT
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Antichrist
Directed by Lars von Trier
Plunging headfirst into a realm of depraved evil, leaving behind him any and all polite norms of filmmaking (mainstream, independent or otherwise), Lars von Trier has unleashed his most audacious creation to date, which has been branded everything from “misogynistic” (according the Cannes` Ecumenical Jury, who awarded it a special “Anti-Prize”) to an elaborate joke on von Trier`s part. Make no mistake, however: Antichrist is deadly serious, both in intent and result. To consider it anything less than that – whether you find yourself disgusted or enthralled – is to misread both the film and von Trier`s intentions.
Written and directed during a protracted period of intense depression, and filmed with surprisingly lush digital photography, Antichrist opens with an undeniably memorable opening statement, a gorgeously wrought black-and-white sequence in which a toddler tumbles from a snowy balcony to die on the street below while
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Tiff ‘09: Antichrist
13 September 2009 2:57 PM, PDT
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Antichrist
Directed by Lars von Trier
Plunging headfirst into a realm of depraved evil, leaving behind him any and all polite norms of filmmaking (mainstream, independent or otherwise), Lars von Trier has unleashed his most audacious creation to date, which has been branded everything from “misogynistic” (according the Cannes` Ecumenical Jury, who awarded it a special “Anti-Prize”) to an elaborate joke on von Trier`s part. Make no mistake, however: Antichrist is deadly serious, both in intent and result. To consider it anything less than that – whether you find yourself disgusted or enthralled – is to misread both the film and von Trier`s intentions.
Written and directed during a protracted period of intense depression, and filmed with surprisingly lush digital photography, Antichrist opens with an undeniably memorable opening statement, a gorgeously wrought black-and-white sequence in which a toddler tumbles from a snowy balcony to die on the street below while
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Tiff #2: "Antichrist" redux
9 September 2009 9:14 PM, PDT
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Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" is poised to detonate at the Toronto Film Festival. This willfully controversial director will inspire, as he often does, a storm of controversy, debate, critics clamoring to get into advance screenings that are already jammed, and a contentious press conference. Of the 400 or so films at Tiff this year, "Antichrist" was the first that sold out in advance. It was the same last May at Cannes, and that was before it has even been seen.
Von Trier was nothing if not canny in his title for the film. By naming it "Antichrist," he provides a lens through which to view its perplexing behavior. By naming his characters only He and She, he suggests the dark side of an alternative Garden of Eden, and then disturbing his ending becomes a mirror image of Christ welcoming the faithful into the kingdom of heaven. The title instructs us where to begin.
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To Be Human
9 September 2009 12:03 PM, PDT
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Unarguably one of the world's most demanding "ascetist" auteurs, and certainly North America's most dedicated "art film" provocateur, Carlos Reygadas makes movies that slow your heart rate and raise your anxiety levels at the same time. His observational gaze isn't just patient rigor, but a brand of glacial, creepy stillness, chilled further by occasional moments of graphic sex, slow exploratory camera moves that seem to perform the impossible, and a colossal sense of unspoken crisis. "Japón" (2002), "Battle in Heaven" (2005) and "Silent Light" (2007) are, most of all, living mysteries, existing scene by scene several left steps away from their own "real" stories, filled with spooky signs of cosmic ruin, and focused on guilt so epic it threatens to crack the sky.
Reygadas hasn't found much of an audience in the U.S. yet, and "Silent Light" didn't help win him one -- after the dismaying scald of his previous movie, the
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Bsb: Lars Von Trier's Antichrist
29 August 2009 8:32 AM, PDT
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To be a parent is to experience primal joy. To be a parent is also to be cast into a flaming pit of paranoia, anxiety and gnawing fear. Nature has designed us to protect and love our offspring, to cradle and nurture them, to adore them and keep them from harm. It is because of this instinctual wiring that we, as parents, do in fact live in constant horror. We wonder, what if illness claimed them? What if some sickening sidebar of humanity parlayed their repellent egocentric dark side into taking them away from us? And if anything ever did happen to them…selfishly, we ask….how in God’s good name would We cope with it?
Danish master of manipulation and melodrama Lars Von Trier understands where true dread, where real horror lurks and it’s firmly ensconced within the cavernous, often uncharted recesses of the human mind. Von
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