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Lars von Trier

'Antichrist'
"I think it gets misidentified because of some of its extremeness," Dafoe said.
Real Sex Scenes in Movies
From Lars von Trier to John Cameron Mitchell and almost every Vincent Gallo movie, here are the films that captured real sex.
Jennifer Kent receives the Special Jury Prize for 'The Nightingale' during the Award Ceremony at the 75th Venice Film Festival at Sala Grande on September 8, 2018 in Venice, Italy.  (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images)
Watch Jennifer Kent discuss how she got her start and made one of the best first features ever, "The Babadook," celebrating its tenth anniversary with a 500-theater re-release.
TORONTO, ONTARIO - SEPTEMBER 14: Thomas Vinterberg attends the premiere of 'Families Like Ours' during the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival at TIFF Lightbox on September 14, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Harold Feng/Getty Images)
Filmmaker Interview
Vinterberg tells IndieWire about his Venice premiere "Families Like Ours," his relationship with Lars von Trier, and how advice he adopted from Ingmar Bergman helped him amid the success of "Another Round."
Lars von Trier in 2018
"I have Parkinson's disease, OCD, and at the moment, controlled alcoholism," von Trier shared in an Instagram video seeking a female romantic partner.
The Idiots
Chaos Reigns
Von Trier's Dogme 95 manifesto movie provoked a firestorm of reactions when it premiered in Cannes in 1998; now, MUBI will re-release the film theatrically for its 25th anniversary.
CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 27: Quentin Tarantino presents The Grand Prix Award during the closing ceremony during the 76th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 27, 2023 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
The writer-director recalled how early screenings of "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction" shocked the Croisette.
Dogville
Stellan Skarsgård and Chloë Sevigny share memories with IndieWire of von Trier's 2003 provocation, now receiving a 20th anniversary restoration from MUBI.
Danish director Lars Von Trier poses on May 14, 2018 during a photocall for the film "The House that Jack Built" at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)        (Photo credit should read ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP via Getty Images)
"I have to find something completely new to say," von Trier said of any possible next projects.
ANTICHRIST, Charlotte Gainsbourg, 2009. ©IFC Films/Courtesy Everett Collection
But before "chaos reigns" became a mantra, Lars von Trier's terrifying portrait of grief didn't receive the genre appreciation it deserved.
Melancholia
Two years after working on von Trier's "very demanding" film "Antichrist," Gainsbourg starred opposite Kirsten Dunst in the apocalyptic drama.
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