Watch The First Clip From Lars Von Trier’s NYMPHOMANIAC
Oh, Lars. Just when you think Von Trier’s deeply ingrained misogyny can’t get any worse (I’m mean Antichrist was just… wow), you come a long and make a movie called Nymphomaniac about a self-diagnosed sex addict played by Charlotte Gainsbourg. (Fun fact: Three actresses have won Best Actress trophies at Cannes because, I can only presume, they we strong enough to work with Von Trier.) Well, here’s the first clip from the film. What if it’s nasty, you ask? Then you just think of a bag of chocolate sweeties. Nymphomaniac opens, and I’m not kidding, on Christmas Day...
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DEATHLY HALLOWS 2 crosses $1 billion, Burns walks the BOARDWALK, Von Trier’s latest controversy – News Links
Warner Bros. had a magic moment over the weekend. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 became the first in the Potter series to cross the $1 billion mark worldwide. The Potter finale, in its 19th day of release, also tied Avatar for the fastest movie to $1 billion. (Box Office Mojo) Ken Burns latest Americana doc, Prohibition, hits PBS in October. While promoting the show, Burns professed his admiration for Terence Winter’s prohibition-era HBO series Boardwalk Empire saying, “Americans always love to watch people who get to kill the people who piss them off.” (The Wrap) Oh, Lars von Trier. When you said “I understand Hitler” in front of the world’s film community at Cannes, I’m sure you expected that to be the most controversial moment of the year. Now you find yourself defending Dogville from being associated with the Norway...
Read MoreThose pesky Scorsese rumors…
Martin Scorsese doesn’t seem like a guy who would work the media. We’ve seen him give acceptance speeches. He rambles. Oh so adorably, he rambles. Still, with Shutter Island hitting theaters on Friday, you can take what I’m about to post here with a grain of salt. 1.) At the Shutter Island‘s Berlinale press conference on Saturday, Scorsese let it slip that he and Robert De Niro were talking about revisiting the gangster genre. THR caught Scorese’s quote, which states that he and his former go-to leading man were discussing “something that has to do with that world. No doubt about it. But it’s from the vantage point of older men looking back.” Whoa, right? Wait for No. 2. 2.) Today, BlackBook posted a story that says that Scorsese and Lars von Trier are mulling a Taxi Driver remake… starring Robert...
Read MoreAntichrist Fantastic Fest poster
More Antichrist wickedness. Designed by artist David V. D’Andrea for the Fantastic Fest screening of Lars von Trier’s Antichrist. The film hits theaters Oct. 23 and will be available on demand Oct....
Read MoreLars von Trier’s Antichrist trailer
Watching this trailer made me feel like I was being violently assaulted, so I can only imagine that actually seeing the film in a theater will feel like being raped and left for dead. Whether that’s good or bad? Well, I’ll wait for the picture do its work before I come to any conclusion. If you want to risk your personal well-being, feel free to check out the HD version over at Apple.com. Antichrist, directed by Lars von Trier and starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, opens on Oct. 23. It premieres On Demand on Oct....
Read MorePalme d’Or for Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke earned his first Palme d’Or prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival today for The White Ribbon. The Austrian film follows a children’s choir in northern Germany before the start of WWI. I don’t know who called this one, but someone had this one pegged last week. (Which blog was it?!) Best Actress went to Charlotte Gainsbourg for suffering at the hands of Lars von Trier in Antichrist and Christoph Waltz took home Best Actor for playing the cartoonish Nazi a.k.a. “The Jew Hunter” in Inglourious Basterds. Oscar watchers, you can now put Waltz’s name down as a potential Best Supporting Actor nominee. Complete list of winners after the jump. Palme d’Or The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke, Germany-France-Austria-Italy Grand Prix A Prophet, Jacques Audiard, France Special Jury Prize Alain Resnais, Wild Grass (France) Director Brillante Mendoza, Kinatay,...
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