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“Ticket Stubs” Review: ‘Antichrist’ - Lars Von Trier’s controversial award winner

6 November 2009 3:15 PM, PST | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »

“Ticket Stubs” review of ‘Antichrist‘ by Austin Lugar

for MovieSet.com

In all regards, you should not watch ‘Antichrist‘. My position as a reviewer is to guide you into seeing or not seeing a film by providing my own opinions. Throughout this review, I shall remark a lot of the achievements of this film, but I warn you this is not a recommendation.

So why shouldn’t you see a film that I will label as technically good? When you look as Lars Von Trier’s canon, there are a variety of films designed to make you feel uneasy. His greatest films in my mind (Dogville, Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves) are films that I have no interest in experiencing for a second time. Von Trier has the uncanny ability to delve in to the dark parts of the human psyche and create remarkable works of art from it. »

- Austin Lugar

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Decade in Review: 2000 Top Ten

5 November 2009 1:07 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

What follows is my original top ten list of 2000... or rather the revised version I published in 2002. Let's discuss each year of this decade as it winds down! Who's with me?!? It's always interesting to see which films remained at the forefront of our memory and which fade... both for a variety of reasons, quality being only one factor. New comments are in red.

Please note: This list was based on NYC release dates in the year 2000. Some movies are listed as different years at the IMDb based on when they were released in their home country or in La or whatnot.

Runners Up (in descending order): Une Liaisons Pornographique, Nurse Betty, You Can Count On Me, Before Night Falls, Pola X, Chicken Run, American Psycho, Wonder Boys and Billy Elliott Um... What The Hell are some of these movies doing outside the top ten list? You Can Count on Me »

- NATHANIEL R

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Antichrist review (4/5) - Chaos reigns beautifully in this must see film.

22 October 2009 7:50 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

"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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Sexual Perversity in Denmark: An Interview with Lars von Trier

21 October 2009 4:41 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

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 »

- Aaron Hillis

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No More Happy Endings for Lars von Trier.

16 October 2009 2:17 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

The director of gut-wrenching films such as Dancer In The Dark, chalk line experimental films about America (Dogville), and the co-founder of a movement of pure cinema known as Dogma, Lars Von Trier returns to the realm of Science Fiction with a psychological disaster film called Planet Melancholia. The title refers to an enormous planet illustrated on the press release that looms threateningly close to Earth. Budgeted at around E5 million ($7 million), the film is set for a European 2010 shoot. Casting of international cast is currently under way and the film will be shot in English. As for what he's going for with the film, he had only one thing to say: "No more happy endings!" Yes, because von Trier's work up to this point has always ended on a bright note. More intriguing is the note from producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen, who said the film will feature "a mix of spectacular, »

- Ricky

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Festival Du Nouveau Cinema: Antichrist

13 October 2009 8:30 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

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 »

- Simon

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Between Greatness and Boredom: Lars Von Trier Retrospective @ Cinéma du Parc

8 October 2009 6:04 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

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. »

- Zornitsa

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Tiff ‘09: Antichrist

24 September 2009 8:29 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

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 »

- Simon

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Tiff ‘09: Antichrist

13 September 2009 2:57 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

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 »

- Simon

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Bsb: Lars Von Trier's Antichrist

29 August 2009 8:32 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

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 »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)

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Cinema release inspirations including The Proposal

24 July 2009 2:59 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »

Hey Boxwishers, got much planned for the weekend? Well it could be one to stay home and catch up on your DVDs as it’s pretty quiet on the ol’ cinema front. In the big boy category there’s only one choice – rom-com tomfoolery with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds in The Proposal, while on more limited release is graphic horror Antichrist. So take your pick. On the one hand, light-hearted romance, on the other menacing spookiness. What do you feel in the mood for? Click over for more.

If you see… Bitchy book editor Margaret Tate (Bullock) face deportation back to her native Canada until she bullies her put-upon assistant Andrew (Reynolds) to marry her in charming screwball comedy The Proposal.

Why Not Steal the style secrets of Bullock’s immaculately dressed Margaret with our guide to getting her look. Enter the official movie site’s competition to win a trip to New York, »

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Trailer For Lar von Trier's Antichrist!

14 April 2009 6:32 AM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »

I'll always love Lar von Trier for making Dancer In The Dark, and now I love him for making Willem Dafoe even creepier then he already is! (Hey, I love Dafoe, he's one of my favorite actors so I mean that as a good thing!) Below you'll find the first trailer for von Trier's latest Antichrist and umm... just watch it! Directed by Lar von Trier from a script by von Trier and Anders Thomas Jensen, Antichrist stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourgh (daughter of the French singer/songwriter). Love the look of this. Especially that bizarre final shot. Check it!

Lars von Trier's Antichrist - Official Trailer from Zentropa on Vimeo.

A grieving couple retreat to ’Eden’, their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse… »

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