SEVILLE, Spain– Lars von Trier’s end-of-the-world drama “Melancholia” tops nominations for this year’s European Film Awards — Europe’s equivalent of the Oscars — with eight mentions. “Melancholia’s” ...

Writer and director Lars von Trier has shared his own personal experience with depression with the public, so its not surprising that his newest film, MELANCHOLIA, is such a strong representation of ...

Dunst won Best Actress at Cannes, but the film was originally destined for a much larger prize. According to the “Personal Shopper” and “Clouds of Sils Maria” director, only Jude Law and himself ...

The first movie I saw in theaters in 2011, aside from a couple of press screenings, was “Hugo.” Yes, that’s correct: I went nearly 11 months without bothering to see a new release. The reason?

The opening shot of Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011) is a close-up of Justine (played by Kirsten Dunst) her eyes shut, her wet, white-blonde hair wild, a feral halo around her face. And then she ...

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Director Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, featured at the 2011 Starz Denver Film Festival, is a feel-bad movie that’s been declared a masterpiece. So universal has been the acclaim that anyone who begs ...

Larry (AARDVARK’s blind-since-birth protagonist) has an innate curiosity that lands him smack in the middle of a bizarre criminal underworld replete with mixed martial arts, intrigue, murder and ...