Lars Von Trier

  • Lars von Trier – Antichrist (2009)

    2001-2010DenmarkDramaLars Von Trier

    Quote:
    A couple lose their young son when he falls out the window while they have sex in the other room. The mother’s grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the woods, “Eden”, where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within.Read More »

  • Lars von Trier – Epidemic (1987)

    1981-1990ArthouseDenmarkLars Von Trier

    Quote:
    A jet-black comedy of contagion, a subversive medical-horror freak-out, and a sly metacinematic prank, Lars von Trier’s sophomore feature—born from a bet that he couldn’t make a film for less than $150,000—finds the director channeling his singular thematic obsessions into an evocatively lo-fi, perversely self-reflexive provocation. The filmmaker himself stars as a harried screenwriter whose efforts to complete a script about the outbreak of a deadly disease coincide with a grisly real-life plague. A twisted reflection on Europe’s haunted past—from the Black Death to World War II—and its scarred present, Epidemic is von Trier at his most idiosyncratic and audaciously experimental.Read More »

  • Lars von Trier & Morten Arnfred – Riget II AKA The Kingdom II (1994) (HD)

    1991-2000ArthouseComedyDenmarkLars Von TrierMorten Arnfred

    Quote:
    This second series ended with even more questions unanswered than the first, and a third series was planned. However, due to the death in 1998 of Ernst-Hugo Järegård (who played Stig Helmer) and the subsequent deaths of Kirsten Rolffes (Mrs Drusse) and Morten Rotne Leffers who played the male dishwasher, the likelihood of a third series is now very remote. Von Trier actually wrote the third and final season, but the production was not picked up by DR. At that point, five regular cast members had died and it seemed impossible to continue the series. The abandoned scripts were sent to the producers of Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital, but it is unclear whether they used the scripts or not.Read More »

  • Lars von Trier & Morten Arnfred – Riget I AKA The Kingdom (1994)(HD)

    1991-2000DenmarkDramaLars Von TrierMorten ArnfredTV

    Synopsis wrote:
    The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff’s faith in science–a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor’s fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural. At the goading of a spiritualist patient, some employees work to let supernatural forces rest.Read More »

  • Lars von Trier – Idioterne AKA The Idiots [+ Commentaries] (1998)

    1991-2000DenmarkDogma FilmsDramaLars Von Trier

    The group of people gather at the house in Copenhagen suburb to break all the limitations and to bring out the “inner idiot” in themselves.Read More »

  • Lars von Trier & Morten Arnfred – Riget I AKA The Kingdom (1994)

    Lars Von Trier1991-2000DenmarkDramaMorten ArnfredTV

    The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff’s faith in science–a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor’s fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural. At the goading of a spiritualist patient, some employees work to let supernatural forces rest.Read More »

  • Lars von Trier – Forbrydelsens element AKA The Element of Crime (1984)

    1981-1990CrimeDenmarkDramaLars Von Trier

    Fisher, an ex-cop, returns to his old beat somewhere in northern Europe after a thirteen-year hiatus in Cairo. His former mentor and role model, author of a treatise called “The Element of Crime”, asks him to solve a series of murders involving lottery ticket sellers. Guided by the theories put forth in the book, Fischer retraces the steps of a suspect, Harry Grey, as recorded in a three-year-old police surveillance report.Read More »

  • Lars von Trier – Dogville [+ Commentary] (2003)

    2001-2010CrimeDenmarkDramaLars Von Trier

    A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.Read More »

  • Lars von Trier – Befrielsesbilleder aka Images of a Relief (1982)

    1981-1990ArthouseDenmarkLars Von Trier

    IMAGES OF A RELIEF
    Written and directed by Lars von Trier. Produced by Per Årman. Photographed by Tom Elling. Edited by Tómas Gislason. Costume Design by Manon Rasmussen. Original Music by Pierre de la Rue. Principal cast: Edward Fleming and Kirsten Olesen.
    From Lars von Trier by Jack Stevenson (British Film Institute: London, 2002):
    Von Trier’s final Film School production, Befrielsesbilleder (Images of a Relief), shot in 1982, was his graduate project and was not a film audiences would laugh at….Read More »

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