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Oh look, another terrifying short film from an adolescent Lars von Trier
07.02.2014
10:23 am
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At the tender age of 11, Lars (not-yet-“von”) Trier filmed a surprisingly sophisticated stop-motion animated short called Trip to Squash Land… A Super Sausage Film. There’s cheerful music, bright colors, and dancing bunnies rescued from the clutches of villainous frog-like creatures. Initially, I found the “cuteness” of Trier’s debut kind of ominous—it felt too twee not to belie some kind of dark evil—but I assumed it was just me projecting. Even the guy who created The Kingdom had to be am innocuous child at some point, right?

Wrong! Apparently Lars von Trier has never been anything short of truly disturbed mind! If you don’t believe me, take a look at this short he made at 14, with the sociopathic title of, Why Try to Escape from Which You Know You Can’t Escape from? Because You Are a Coward!

The plot is simple, but intense. A kid on a bicycle is hit by a truck. Another kid inspects the injured party, only to flee in terror—it’s not clear why he runs, but I think the implication is that kid #2 was the truck driver. The injured kid is suddenly animated through some kind of paranormal force (the candles are a dead giveaway), and he begins to pursue kid #2, now with sinister bandages over his face. There’s a great psychological thriller-style chase scene, but I won’t ruin the ending. The sound is pretty low, but if you crank up the volume you can hear pulsating acid rock, heavenly choirs, and some deep-voiced narration of what the Internet informs me are biblical references, but what I suspect are actually Satanic incantations in an unholy tongue (or Danish!). Oh and there’s some terrifying laughter, because why not?

Once again, creepy-kid Lars created a really sophisticated little film, with a precocious talent for editing, detail and really unnerving his audience.
 

Posted by Amber Frost
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07.02.2014
10:23 am
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Now it’s film critics all over Europe who are posing with their best sex faces for Lars von Trier
01.09.2014
09:08 am
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In October Paul Gallagher brought Dangerous Minds readers an early peek at the provocative promotional materials for Nymphomaniac, Lars von Trier’s five-plus-hour movie in two parts, of which a shortened version (only four hours long) was released in Denmark and the United States on Christmas Day.

The posters featured attention-getting pictures of upwards of a dozen of the film’s actors, unclothed and in character (one assumes), in a pose suggesting sweaty post O bliss. The cast—and the posters—feature actors prominent and not-so-prominent, among them Uma Thurman, Christian Slater, and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

In this image you can see all of the posters all kind of jammed together:
 
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A little before the Christmas release of the film several Danish film critics, all or most of whom can be presumed to like it, decided to use the necessity of promoting the Bodil Awards—Denmark’s equivalent to the Oscars—to pay homage to the movie by staging a bunch of orgasmic photographic portraits of their own!

The text in the poster reads, “This is what Danish film critics look like when they are enjoying good movies. . . . They are coming to the Bodil Awards. Are you?”

 
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In a statement, Denmark’s National Association of Film Critics said, “Some may think that we all just sit in our ivory towers, looking down on the film landscape with critical eyes, having no fun at all. But just like anyone else, also we can be excited by great movie experiences—and we are not afraid to share the excitement with all of you!”

And then just a few days ago, several prominent Polish film critics banded together and did the same thing.
 
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We in the United States of America await our own titillating posters with A.O. Scott, Harry Knowles, Dana Stevens, Rex Reed, Manohla Dargis, and J. Hoberman doing their best O-faces.

After all of those pics, I’m ready for a cigarette ...
 

 
Thank you Michał Oleszczyk!

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Coming soon: Stars show their sex faces for new Lars Von Trier film

Posted by Martin Schneider
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01.09.2014
09:08 am
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Coming soon: Stars show their sex faces for new Lars Von Trier film
10.11.2013
10:21 am
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This Halloween, rather than donning that worn out Scream mask, why not go adult Trick or Treating with your cum face? You know, that often unfortunate grimace you pull at the height of sexual pleasure?

It’s certainly worked as a talking point for Lars Von Trier’s latest movie Nymphomaniac, which is using an ad campaign with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Udo Kier, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Jamie Bell, Stacy Martin, Christian Slater and alike showing their best sex faces.

Nymphomaniac is “an exploration of the erotic life of a woman from infancy to middle age.” The film will be released in soft core and hard core versions, with the soft version premiering this December in Denmark. The hard core version used body doubles for the sex scenes.
 
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Come again? More celebrity sex faces, after the jump…
 

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Posted by Paul Gallagher
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10.11.2013
10:21 am
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Lars Von Trier directs Donald Duck
04.20.2012
01:25 pm
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A mock trailer for a “Dogme 95” film Donald Duck movie from Icelandic television’s Mid-Island show. The pretentious checklist of the Danish avant-garde cinematic movement seems to be followed to the letter here.

From the YouTube description:

Donald leads a tormented life on the unforgiving streets of Duckburg, where sometimes he must betray his own conscience to make ends meet.

Donald has to raise his 3 nephews, deal with a cheating girlfriend and put up with working for his stingy uncle; the richest duck in down. This is a tale everyone can relate to.

Wait for Goofy’s appearance, you’ll be glad you did.
 

 
Thank you Edward Ludvigsen!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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04.20.2012
01:25 pm
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Will Lars Von Trier be prosecuted for being a Nazi sympathizer and is this his last interview?
10.06.2011
12:44 am
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Before the two screenings of Lars von Trier’s Melancholia at this year’s Fantastic Fest, there was a screening of an interview with Von Trier conducted by Badass Digest’s Devin Faraci for the festival. Von Trier has a good relationship with Fantastic Fest and given the fact that he doesn’t fly had chosen to introduce his film via Skype. I was there and the audience response to the interview, in which von Trier is surprisingly likeable and upbeat, was more enthusiastic than to Melancholia itself, which I found beautiful, well-directed, but ultimately kind of pointless - though it did generate quite a bit of discussion and debate.

You may recall that von Trier got himself into a bit of a public relations nightmare at this year’s Cannes Film Festival when he provocatively called himself a Nazi during a press Q&A - you can read Roger Ebert’s account of the incident here. As is his nature, Von Trier was being a shit stirrer, he was joking, pushing buttons, but the French have strict laws about proclaiming you’re a Nazi (apparently even in jest) or making anti-Semitic comments in public (just ask former Dior designer John Galliano). Now it seems that the French government may be planning to prosecute von Trier for his remarks. As hard as it is to believe, Von Trier may be tried for his facetious comments. Yesterday Von Trier issued the following press release.

“Today at 2pm I was questioned by the Police of North Zealand in connection with charges made by the prosecution of Grasse in France from August 2011 regarding a possible violation of prohibition in French law against justification of war crimes.

The investigation covers comments made during the press conference in Cannes in May 2011. Due to these serious accusations I have realized that I do not possess the skills to express myself unequivocally and I have therefore decided from this day forth to refrain from all public statements and interviews.”

If indeed von Trier never does another interview, the one he did with Faraci for Fantastic Fest may be the last one we’ll ever see. Here it is:
 

 
Thanks to Brandy Fons & Fantastic Fest

Posted by Marc Campbell
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10.06.2011
12:44 am
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