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Lars Von Trier
Lars Von Trier is an idiosyncratic and influential Danish director.
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Lars Von Trier - news / articles
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Dafoe wasn't shocked by Von Trier's Cannes controversy -
21 February 2012
-Actor Willem Dafoe was not surprised when shamed director Lars Von Trier hit the headlines for making controversial remarks about Nazis at a film festival last year (11), because he has been known to be a "buffoon".-The Danish filmmaker stunned reporters when he made a
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Von Trier escapes prosecution over Nazi comments -
9 December 2011
-French officials have decided not to press charges against director Lars Von Trier for remarks he made about Nazis at the Cannes Film Festival in May (11).-Public prosecutor Jean-Michel Cailleau confirms the case has been officially closed after the Danish filmmaker wa
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Dunst: 'Von Trier's Hitler ramble was a joke gone wrong' -
9 November 2011
-Kirsten Dunst is still defending her Melancholia director Lars Von Trier after his comments about Nazi leader Adolf Hitler prompted Cannes Film Festival organisers to ban him from the event for life.-The actress was sitting beside the Scandinavian moviemaker at a Canne
Lars Von Trier - what members say
review by A customer from Middlesex
Classic film. 10 June 2004
review by moorje from Southport, UK
Cinematic Masterpiece 25 April 2004
review by from London, UK
brilliant and weird 25 May 2004
Lars Von Trier - filmography
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Melancholia
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland
Director: Lars Von Trier
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Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland). Meanwhile, the planet, Melancholia, is heading towards Earth... MELANCHOLIA is a psychological ..read more »
 
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Antichrist
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
Director: Lars Von Trier
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Only two actors, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Defoe, inhabit the space of this supernatural thriller directed by Lars Von Trier. The stars play a couple who attempt to grieve for their dead child by living in seclusion in the middle of a forest. But their story does not end there: in the forest, ..read more »
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The Boss Of It All
(2006)
Starring: Jens Albinus, Peter Gantzler, Benedikt Erlingsson
Director: Lars Von Trier
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An IT company hires an actor (Jens Albinus) to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson).
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Manderlay
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankole, Danny Glover
Director: Lars Von Trier
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Danish auteur Lars Von Trier's controversial sequel to Dogville. Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) and her father (Willem Dafoe) having fled Dogville, arrive in Alabama at the gate of a troubled plantation where the abolition of slavery 70 years earlier has been ignored. Disregarding her father's advice,..read more »
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Dogville
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall
Director: Lars Von Trier
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Set in the 1930s during the Depression in the Rocky Mountains, DOGVILLE is Lars von Trier's comment on Americana and his uniquely perverse view of small town life. With period costumes, and flashes of THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER--which is being read by one of the characters--von Trier sets the ..read more »
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Dancer In The Dark
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Bjork, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse
Director: Lars Von Trier
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The final instalment in Lars von Trier's Golden Heart trilogy (which includes BREAKING THE WAVES and THE IDIOTS), DANCER IN THE DARK takes the director's original blend of heightened pseudo-realism and fabricated melodrama to a dangerously intense level. The story concerns Selma (Bjork), a Czech ..read more »
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The Idiots
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Paprika Steen, Troels Lyby, Knud Romer Jorgensen
Director: Lars Von Trier
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Lars von Trier's first contribution to Denmark's Dogme 95 collective (subtitled "Dogme 2," following Thomas Vinterberg's THE CELEBRATION) concerns a group of adults who decide to get in touch with their "inner idiot." When Karen (Bodil Jorgensen), a shy, sensitive young woman, follows a group of ..read more »
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Breaking The Waves
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard, Katrin Cartlidge
Director: Lars Von Trier
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With Breaking The Waves, director Lars von Trier fashions an often disturbing tale of the singular power of love. Bess (the Oscar-nominated Emily Watson) is a naïve, borderline simple young woman who lives in a Scottish coastal town ruled by the religious doctrine of its council of elders. ..read more »
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The Kingdom
(2 discs)
(1994)
Starring: Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Kirsten Rolffes, Holger Juul Hansen
Director: Lars Von Trier
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Director Lars von Trier puts his mischievous mind to work once again, this time creating a bizarre, humourous, and suspenseful tale about a Danish hospital that is haunted by ancient spirits. Copenhagen's largest hospital is nicknamed the Kingdom, and there are many odd things happening inside of ..read more »
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Lars Von Trier facts
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...It is a comedy , but not of a traditional style.Kick started the dogme movement,Lars Von Trier is a genius....
