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Lars von Trier

June 2024

  • Stellan Skarsgård.

    ‘In Europe, everyone’s screaming kill, kill, kill’: Stellan Skarsgård on Sweden, ‘silly’ Scandi noir and security

    The Swedish actor is playing a bamboozled police officer in What Remains, a film written by his wife and starring one of his sons. He looks back on mixing Marvel with arthouse, taking risks with Lars von Trier and Sweden joining Nato

August 2023

  • Lars Von Trier photographed at home in Denmark, 19 November 2018

    Lars von Trier defends ‘Russian lives matter also’ comment

  • Railing against absurdity … The Idiots.

    The Idiots review – Lars von Trier’s appalling-taste Dogme satire is irritatingly original

  • Dusk at the Lyceum, Edinburgh.

    Dusk review – powerful exploration of Lars von Trier’s Dogville

  • Bedside manner … Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves.

    Breaking the Waves review – Emily Watson adds brilliance to von Trier’s windup of a movie

May 2023

  • Palme d'Or winners (l-r) Parasite (2019), Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989) and Taxi Driver (1976)

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best winners of Cannes’ Palme d’Or

    Twenty-one films will vie for the top spot at the 76th Cannes film festival, which starts next week, hoping to join the roll call of past classics, from Taxi Driver and M*A*S*H to Parasite

March 2023

  • Alexander Skarsgård photographed at the Soho hotel.

    Alexander Skarsgård: ‘There’s a politeness to Swedes. It’s a facade. Deep down we’re animals’

    The actor talks about his new film, the explicit sci-fi horror Infinity Pool, why he gave up acting for eight years – and why he likes playing darker, more twisted characters

November 2022

  • Steve Carell in The Patient.

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    The Patient to Willow: the seven best shows to stream this week

    Steve Carell and Domnhall Gleeson star in a gripping doctor-patient thriller, while Warwick Davis is off on another quest as the beloved sorcerer

September 2022

  • Jesper Sørensen stars in The Kingdom Exodus

    First look review
    The Kingdom: Exodus review – return of Lars von Trier’s cult hospital horror

    Venice film festival: Five-part miniseries, premiering at Venice film festival, fuses fear and soap opera with satisfying wildness and weirdness

August 2022

  • FILES-FRANCE-US-ENTERTAINMENT-FILM-OSCARS-DENMARK-VINTERBERG<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 14, 2018 Danish director Lars Von Trier poses as he arrives for the screening of the film "The House that Jack Built" at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. - "Another Round," a film about a pact by four world-weary Danish schoolteachers to spend every day drunk for a loosely scientific "experiment," was always going to walk a fine line between comedy and darkness. Director Thomas Vinterberg wrote his script, originally a play, upon realizing many of the world's great historic feats were made by people regularly intoxicated on alcohol -- the very same substance that can rip lives and families apart. (Photo by Valery HACHE / AFP) (Photo by VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

    Lars von Trier diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease

    Danish director, who won Palme d’Or for Dancer in the Dark, said to be ‘in good spirits’

July 2022

  • James Caan in 2000

    The Godfather star James Caan dies aged 82

    Actor who played Sonny Corleone in the groundbreaking 1972 epic engineered a comeback after his career went off the rails in the early 1980s

March 2022

  • Jane Campion, Sam Elliott, Michael Caine, Charlotte Rampling and David O Russell

    Red carpets and banana skins: Jane Campion and the Oscars hopefuls who jeopardised their chances

  • Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia

    Ranked
    Kirsten Dunst’s 20 best performances – ranked!

November 2021

  • 'Hope' photocall, Stockholm, Sweden - 14 Oct 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by IBL/REX/Shutterstock (10954229b) Stellan Skarsgard 'Hope' photocall, Stockholm, Sweden - 14 Oct 2020

    The reader interview
    Stellan Skarsgård: ‘My tips for fatherhood? Don’t lie. Even about Santa Claus’

    The Swedish actor best known for his collaborations with Lars von Trier – as well as Marvel movies, Pirates of the Caribbean and Mamma Mia! – answers your questions about Lars von Trier, porn and pickled herrings

February 2021

  • refns

    'My father and I disagree on the purpose of cinema': Anders and Nicolas Winding Refn on film-making

    The two Danish directors have known the joy of success and the pain of failure in their respective careers. Just don’t expect them to see eye to eye on anything else

September 2020

  • … the cast of The Boss of It All, livestreamed on Zoom.

    The Boss of It All review – whimsical Lars von Trier workplace comedy

  • The Painted Bird, film still, directed by Václav Marhoul

    When art films attack: why The Painted Bird's try-hard horrors fail to land

    Ryan Gilbey

March 2020

  • Deja vu … John Turturro reappears as Jesus Quintana from The Big Lebowski in The Jesus Rolls

    The second coming of Jesus: how the Big Lebowski bowler was resurrected

    It’s been 22 years since the dubious Puerto Rican appeared in the Coen brothers’ classic – and 46 since Les Valseuses, the French sex comedy John Turturro has loosely adapted for Jesus’s comeback. Welcome to the world of the cinematic crossover

October 2019

  • Charlotte Gainsbourg

    Charlotte Gainsbourg: ‘Everything now is so politically correct. So boring’

    The actor and singer grew up in her parents’ shadow, and starred in Lars Von Trier’s most extreme films. She talks about why she’s finally comfortable in her own skin

September 2019

  • From left: Moonlight, The Handmaiden, There Will Be Blood, Under the Skin

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best films of the 21st century

    Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000
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