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Lars von Trier is "The Best Director in the World"

20 October 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »

'I am the best film director in the world,' proclaimed Danish enfant terrible Lars von Trier to a packed press conference for his film Antichrist, starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, after its premiere at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. 'All the others,' he added later in the conversation, 'are overrated.' If you were to be asked what filmmaker could have made such a comment, you'd be hard-pressed to think of a more likely prospect than von Trier, the Dogme 95 leader who has consistently pushed the boundaries of what cinema will allow. In The Idiots (Idioterne), a film he made adhering to the ascetic boundaries erected by Dogme, he gave us an art film featuring unsimulated sex scenes. The practice may strike you as not particularly shocking now, with films like Romance, The Brown Bunny, The Wayward Cloud (Tian bian yi duo yun), Destricted, and 9 Songs all having »

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Coppola Was Warned Off Casting 'Fabulous' Gallo

9 June 2009 1:00 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Francis Ford Coppola defied the warnings of friends and Hollywood colleagues to cast eccentric Vincent Gallo in his new film.

Actor and filmmaker Gallo has been blacklisted by a number of filmmakers and actors after clashing with co-stars and cast members on various projects.

He once famously fired Winona Ryder from a movie after hiring her purely as a publicity stunt and reportedly filmed a sex scene with then-girlfriend Chloe Sevigny for controversial film The Brown Bunny.

Coppola admits when he considered Gallo for his new movie Tetro, he was inundated with calls, warning him away from the 48-year-old actor/director.

But, having directed legendary bad boy Marlon Brando in two movies, the legendary director was sure he could handle Gallo.

He says, "Vincent, when I cast him, everyone called me and told me, 'This guy is poison, don't work with him, do not involve him.' I cast him and it turned out he was a fabulous guy." »

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Cannes #4: What were they thinking of?

18 May 2009 4:24 AM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »

There are few prospects more alarming than a director seized by an Idea. I don't mean an idea for a film, a story, a theme, a tone, any of those ideas. I'm thinking of a director whose Idea takes control of his film and pounds it into the ground and leaves the audience alienated and resentful. Such a director is Brillante Mendoza of the Philippines, and the victim of his Idea is his Official Selection at Cannes 2009, "Kinatay." Here is a film that forces me to apologize to Vincent Gallo for calling "The Brown Bunny" the worst film in the history of the Cannes Film Festival.

After extensive recutting, the Gallo film was redeemed. I don't think editing is going to do the trick for "Kinatay." If Mendoza wants to please any viewer except for the most tortured theorist (one of those careerists who thinks movies are about arcane academic »

- Roger Ebert

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In the Realm of Pornography?

1 May 2009 3:32 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

The Criterion Collection version of Nagisa Oshima's controversial "In the Realm of the Senses" that came to DVD and Blu-ray this week is listed on Criterion's web site as running 108 minutes long. That number corresponds with the length of the film's "original version" given by IMDb, though the site also lists a 109-minute version from the U.K., a 107-minute version from Australia, and a 98-minute version from Argentina. There seems to be a different cut for every country that's willing to show the film (unlike its native Japan, where it remains banned). The movie is almost an indecency Rorschach test -- it'd be fascinating, if a little horrifying, to compare all the different cuts side-by-side, to see what each culture found unacceptable by its moral standards. (By the way, IMDb does not mention a 95-minute cut, which is the length of the film on the previous DVD edition »

- Matt Singer

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Signatures: Chloë Sevigny

6 April 2009 6:23 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Adam of Club Silencio here with another look at my favorite actresses and their distinguishing claims to fame.

Many actresses say the secret to an interesting career is working with great directors who know how to use their strengths. Chloë Sevigny's career has been dominated by work with some of filmmaking's finest, but even they don't always know quite what to do with her. Take the envious line-up of collaborators like Lars von Trier, Woody Allen, Harmony Korine, Jim Jarmusch, Olivier Assayas, and (still to come) Werner Herzog, and you understand why Chloë's a cinema-lover's darling. But then you also have to wonder why she's often relegated to the table scraps of screen time, and why her best role to date is only available once you contact your local cable provider.

Chloë Sevigny truly knows the weight of a secret.

Her Oscar-nominated breakthrough as Lana in Boys Don't Cry »

- Adam

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Film Junk’s Top 10 Gag Inducing Sex Scenes

26 March 2009 5:38 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Filmmakers always talk about how awkward it is filming sex scenes. Well guess what? Sometimes it's Equally as awkward watching them! When they're done well, they can be hot, but when placed in the wrong hands, a sex scene can be the worst viewing experience ever. I submit to you that the following 10 films contain some of the most gag inducing sex scenes ever caught on film (excluding pornography of course). Many of the films on this list are included for different reasons; some are brutal, some are awkward, and some are just plain gross. Get ready to have your mind And your genitals blown! These are my picks for the 10 most gag inducing sex scenes. (Caution: Some of the following images may be considered Nsfw.) 10. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) [1] I’ll admit it, this might be a bit of a stretch. However, I'm sure that any fan »

- Jay C.

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Video: Francis Ford Coppola Gives Tetro Update

25 February 2009 8:00 PM, PST | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »

Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather) has put together a video in order to give the status of his upcoming "Tetro" film. In the video, he explains that the $15 million drama has wrapped the Argentina shoot and says that he is really happy with casting the "brilliant" Vincent Gallo (Buffalo 66, The Brown Bunny). Check out the video below. "Tetro" is set in Argentina and follows the rivalries born out of creative differences passed down through generations of an artistic Italian immigrant family. Coppola said that the pieces of the story come from his own life. The film is an original script by Coppola, the first since "The Conversation" (1974). It is scheduled to hit theaters later this year. Video: If you cannot see the player, click here. Click here to read more about "Tetro." »

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The Diy route for Coppola's Tetro

24 February 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- About a week ago, I saw June release listing for Francis Ford Coppola's next film and what this listing confirmed was that a.) a Cannes Film Festival debut appears likely, and b.) Coppola appears to be choosing the Diy route?! I think Coppola going the Diy route in terms of domestic distribution might have to do with the lessons learned with his last feature -- a dismal perf at the box office with Youth Without Youth (a less than a quarter million dollar cull with Sony Pictures Classics). There is also the fact that this might be a project closer to his heart – it is his first screenplay since The Conversation. A press release today mentioning the film’s official website has been launched also confirms that Coppola's production co. American Zoetrope is seconding as the film's distribution co. Returning to perhaps some of the themes we found in his Godfather trilogy, »

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