Lars von Trier
TV or Not TV | Lars’ Anatomy: “The Kingdom” Returns
By Michael Sicinski | | Columns, CS93, From Cinema Scope Magazine, TV or not TV
This is von Trier using the language of postmodernism, appropriation, and pastiche to remind us that The Kingdom is essentially a put-on. It would be impossible for any halfway attentive viewer to miss Exodus’ citations of Lynch, Maddin, Tarkovsky, Ghostbusters
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Persona Non Grata: Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
By Michael Sicinski | | Cinema Scope Online, Currency
By Michael Sicinski [Note: This review contains SPOILERS.] A few technical notes as we begin to talk about Lars von Trier’s latest film: 1) For the purposes of this discussion, I will refer to Nymphomaniac as a single work, rather than treating its two-volume release as an integral part of its construction. 2) I will…
Read More TIFF Countdown -8: Monsieur Lazhar / Melancholia / Michael
By cscope2 | | Cinema Scope Online, TIFF 2011
Cinema Scope 48 Preview: Monsieur Lazhar (Philippe Falardeau, Canada) By Jason Anderson Few lives go untouched by some form of trauma or catastrophe, yet compassion is often the last thing we spare for the people who cross our paths, especially when there’s no obvious indication they might need anything from us. This point was elegantly…
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Cannes 2011 | Melancholia (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
By Richard Porton | | CS47, Festivals, From Cinema Scope Magazine, Spotlight
By Richard Porton “The purpose of provocations is to get people to think,” declared Lars von Trier in Stig Björkman’s documentary Tranceformer—A Portrait of Lars von Trier (1997). By those standards, the provocation von Trier masterminded at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, which, in reference to the concomitant Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair that monopolized the television…
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