With little more than two strategically placed parentheses, von Trier may well have delivered the best poster of the year.
These shacks have giddily opened their doors to audiences through the years.
Bang and whimper all rolled up into one, Melancholia gets a glorious Blu-ray transfer from Magnolia.
Which performance will land Jessica Chastain her first Oscar nomination?
The exterior mirrors the interior and vice versa in Melancholia.
Melancholia is a film of few epiphanies and even fewer insights, and as artful as the film’s doom and gloom may be, its symbolism flounders.
A Mysterious World might be the most auteur-y object to emerge from the festival’s “City to City” Buenos Aires-themed program.
While there’s a fine line between the sacred and kitschy, Julie Bertuccelli’s film nearly always falls on the latter half of the divide.
The sky is falling in Melancholia, but the impending apocalypse is more slow-motion dive than outlandish spectacle.
Let your loved ones know that you care by letting chaos reign…in their Blu-ray player.
DP Javier Aguirresarobe frames the action in a series of handsome, unfussy arrangements that matches the languished mood of the piece.
Following the left turn that was Red Lights, Regrets seems closer to familiar territory.
Patrice Chéreau may be among the working filmmakers the most attuned to the human body.
We’ve said it before and we’re going to say it again.
Charlotte Gainsbourg makes another push at mirroring her father’s musical success on IRM, her major label debut.
Like Werner Herzog, Denmark’s premiere provocateur knows not to be afraid to laugh at the absurdity of chaos.
Antichrist only becomes interesting, albeit briefly, as an act of confession.
Von Trier is a compulsive button-pusher in the battle of the sexes, the battle of political correctness, the battle of cinema as playground of ideas.
In Antichrist, there’s no anchor to the cataract of malevolent images other than Lars von Trier’s own crawling neuroses.
Thanks to Martin Scorsese’s seal of approval, Golden Door may now he salvaged from critical and popular disinterest.