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2009 Efa Noms: This Year's Favorite (A Prophet) vs. Last Year's Fave (Slumdog)
7 November 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- With the film eligibility dates covering portions of two years, the 2009 European Film Awards finds itself in an awkward mode of having a clear favorites from circa 2008 (Slumdog Millionaire, Let the Right One In) go up against cream of the crop from Cannes 2009 (A Prophet, The White Ribbon and Fish Tank). Jacques Audiard's A Prophet leads all nominations with a total of six with Best European Film, Director, Screenwriter, Actor (Tahar Rahim), Cinematography and Sound Design. Slumdog comes in 2nd place with five nominations while the Palme d'or winning The White Ribbon and Broken Embraces are tied with 4 each. The Reader, Fish Tank, Coco Avant Chanel, Antichrist and Let the Right One In have a total of 3 each. For the fun of it, I've placed asterisks next to what I think the winner will be in all of the categories below. So what do you think will and »
“Ticket Stubs” Review: ‘Antichrist’ - Lars Von Trier’s controversial award winner
6 November 2009 3:15 PM, PST | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
“Ticket Stubs” review of ‘Antichrist‘ by Austin Lugar
for MovieSet.com
In all regards, you should not watch ‘Antichrist‘. My position as a reviewer is to guide you into seeing or not seeing a film by providing my own opinions. Throughout this review, I shall remark a lot of the achievements of this film, but I warn you this is not a recommendation.
So why shouldn’t you see a film that I will label as technically good? When you look as Lars Von Trier’s canon, there are a variety of films designed to make you feel uneasy. His greatest films in my mind (Dogville, Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves) are films that I have no interest in experiencing for a second time. Von Trier has the uncanny ability to delve in to the dark parts of the human psyche and create remarkable works of art from it. »
- Austin Lugar
Antichrist Movie Review
27 October 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
You know how they say the first ten minutes of a movie are the harbinger of things to come? The rule applies to art films as well. Let's take Lars Von Trier's latest film, Antichrist, The movie begins with gorgeous, slow motion black and white Willem Dafoe testes and an infant dying. If this disturbs and disgusts, I'm gonna go ahead and tell you that you will find Antichrist to be an intolerable experience, because that's merely the beginning of a long, harrowing, disturbing journey that is to follow. If you're intrigued, though, read on.
I can't really being to explain the story, as it exists to be interpreted more than be told as a story. The talking pictures are about Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as He and She. Disturbed over the aforementioned death of their infant, they go to a cabin in the woods to work through the processes of grief, »
From Sundance to Rome, From Mo'Nique to Mirren
27 October 2009 10:20 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Since when did precursor season begin in October? Every year it seems to push backwards, earlier into the year, despite Oscar pushing forward, delaying itself until March this year. We've already heard from the Gotham Awards and Bifa and this past week more festival prizes came all the way from Rome and Chicago. None of this is unusual I suppose... I guess I'm just not quite ready for it for 2009. Ready for it emotionally, not physically. That's too much to go over right here (especially considering what's coming in about one months time. Nbr etcetera...)
Since The Film Experience's famously favorite category is Best Actress, it's worth noting the year's wins in that regard thus far. I'm sure I'm missing foreign wins but I'm on tight deadlines. (Help me fill it out in the comments - previous error fixed. I type too fast. 75 wpm, bitches)
Sundance Festival Mo'Nique, Precious (Like Cannes, »
- NATHANIEL R
Antichrist's Willem Dafoe and Tim Gunn interview on Late Night
27 October 2009 8:24 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Late Night: Jimmy welcomed actor Willem Dafoe, currently starring in the controversial Lars Von Trier film, Antichrist. The film features visual symbolism that is designed to provoke mightily. Dafoe, who plays a therapist and his character's wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) lose their infant son accidentally while the couple are having sex. Dafoe's character treats his emotionally unstable wife by forcing her to face her fears at an isolated cabin. Not too long after an animatronic fox, seen gnawing at its own wounds, growls the words "Chaos reigns," nature goes amok as Trier uses disturbing images of sadistic violence and sexual mutilation to paint his film. Also on was Project Runway.s style nazi Tim Gunn. Watch the highlights as Willem »
- April MacIntyre
Box Office: “Antichrist” Scares Up Mild Numbers
25 October 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist” finally got a chance to disturb the American moviegoing audience this weekend, and while it managed consistent sell-outs in New York City, its overall six-market debut fell somewhat below expectations. According to estimates provided by Rentrak today, the IFC Films release - starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a disturbed couple (to put it mildly) working out some issues at a cabin in the woods - … »
Indie Spotlight: New Releases for Oct. 23
23 October 2009 3:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Here's a quick look at what's opening in limited release this weekend. If they're not playing where you live, keep an eye out as they make the rounds. And if all else fails, there's always DVD....
Ong Bak 2: The Beginning (pictured) is something of a prequel to Ong Bak, the Thai sensation from a few years ago. Tony Jaa, whose multi-discipline fighting skills are beyond impressive, plays a guy who fights a lot. Cinematical's Todd Gilchrist sums up the way many of us felt when we first caught the film at South By Southwest: The fight scenes are spectacular; unfortunately, the plot that holds them together is incomprehensible and takes itself too seriously. At Rotten Tomatoes, the critics are almost evenly split between yea and nay, with the only question being whether the awesomeness of the fights is enough to compensate for the dullness of the rest of it. »
- Eric D. Snider
Catching Up With... Antichrist's Lars von Trier
23 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
In mid-September, Danish director Lars Von Trier appeared-via a Skype video chat-at a press conference for the New York Film Festival, which screens his controversial new shocker Antichrist. The film, which Von Trier has said was born out of a terrible depression, is the story of an unnamed married couple (Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe) who take refuge at a cabin in the wilds after their toddler son has died in a fall.... »
Antichrist
23 October 2009 6:59 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Directed by: Lars Von Trier
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe
Running Time: 1 hr 50 mins
Rating: Nc-17
Release Date: October 23, 2009 (Limited)
Plot: After the sudden loss of their son, a married couple (Gainsbourg, Dafoe) with a strained relationship seek healing in their cabin in the woods.
Who’S It For? This horrifying film is likely to gain some sort of following, despite having a narrow appeal that demands art house audience members to watch images that would disturb even the most grotesque fare of mainstream Hollywood.
Expectations: At the same festival that gave Gainsbourg’s performance an award for Best Actress, audience members were apparently throwing up and passing out. Other than hearing this, I had nothing but the bold title of Antichrist to tempt me.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Charlotte Gainsbourg as She: An incredible amount of passion pours out of Gainsbourg in this performance, which is always at full force, »
- Nick Allen
'Antichrist': Lost In The Woods, By Kurt Loder
23 October 2009 6:51 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
The movie that scandalized Cannes finally arrives Stateside. Your move.
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe in .Antichrist.
Photo: Zentropa Entertainments
Lars Von Trier's "Antichrist" is a curious mash-up of cutting-edge torture-porn and good old porn-porn that fails on both fronts. Despite some wild gore touches that might draw gasps of admiration from the likes of Eli Roth, the picture is too preoccupied with Von Trier's dismal deep thoughts to exert the crass visceral grip an effective splatter flick requires. And despite a few graphic sex shots, the movie is coldly anti-erotic. What it most precisely evokes are the art-film pretensions of the early 1960s, when European auteurs could get away with a line like "acorns don't cry" and American aficionados were disinclined to complain. (Imagine how those old Resnais and Antonioni head-scratchers might have been enlivened by a few strategically placed insertion shots!) The movie's most problematic aspect, though, »
[Movie Review] Antichrist
23 October 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
“Chaos Reigns,” said the fox to the man.
Lars von Trier’s Antichrist is a fable, a fairy tale, a biblical parable, perhaps; whatever you want to call it, divided into five chapters. Though centered on two (and only two) human characters, it’s an animalistic film, dealing with the subjects of uncontrollable actions and out-of-control psyches. Some call it nature. It’s no coincidence that the three forms of human suffering (Grief, Pain, Despair) that serve as the titles of the three middle chapters are also represented in the story as animal avatars, appearing one by one in each corresponding chapter.
Grief is a mother deer, her dead little Bambi still hanging from her uterus, unable to be released. Pain is a disemboweled talking fox. Despair is a crow that cannot be killed, but seems to linger around death. These animals resemble the fate of the human characters. When all three show up, »
- Arya Ponto
Movie Review: Antichrist (2009)
23 October 2009 3:43 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Antichrist
Photo: IFC Films Lars von Trier's Antichrist is a perfect example of why I hate when critics see a film at a film festival and rush to their computers to spout off their immediate opinions, or even go as far as to write a complete movie review. It's not the same as seeing the latest Hollywood blockbuster at midnight, you can't absorb a film like Antichrist all at once and spit out your reaction. Whether you enjoy the film at first glance or not, I don't see how you can fall on either side of the fence minutes after viewing it unless your only concern is having a voice and less concerned with what you are saying.
As a result of this "me first" attitude, much ado has been made about the graphic nature of Antichrist's third act, but I can »
- Brad Brevet
A Couple of Notes on Antichrist
22 October 2009 10:24 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
I had intended to open this post with an image of Lars von Trier's head almost floating in the space of a giant gray screen. It was a real image that I had snapped from my camera while attending the Skyped press conference at the Nyff weeks ago (von Trier, as you know, doesn't fly so cross-Atlantic festival appearances are out of the question). While Von Trier gazed down impishly at the crowd from the screen that had just shown his latest firebomb Antichrist, my thoughts jumped to Shosanna's "Giant Face" in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. It wouldn't have surprised me at all to find that the doors had been locked and von Trier was planning to burn down the theater. Figuratively! Though Lars is kind of a sick puppy, he's more of a prankster than a true nihilist.
...I lost that image and also lost my notes. Very ill the day of the screening, »
- NATHANIEL R
Ciff 2009: The winners! And our reviews
22 October 2009 6:39 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned," an independent American production, won the Gold Hugo as the best film in the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival, and added Gold Plaques for best supporting actress (Jossie Thacker) and best screenplay (Mabry). It tells the harrowing story of three black children growing up in rural Mississippi in circumstances of violence and addiction. The film's trailer and an interview with Mabry are linked at the bottom.
Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"
The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor, »
- Roger Ebert
Antichrist Review
22 October 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »
Antichrist stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a married couple (they’re never named) who lose their only child in a freak accident, which they were present for but failed to stop; the operatic sex they were having at the time was something of a distraction. After she spends some time in a psychiatric ward dealing with her grief, Dafoe, a therapist, convinces Gainsbourg they should retreat to their house deep in secluded woods (they call it “Eden”) so that he can teach her how to face her fears. Totally coincidentally, this house is where the wife used to go to work on an academic thesis on Gynocide — which the film defines as archaic and semi-mythic violence against women, witch hunting and like practices through which, as Gainsbourg’s character puts it, “nature causes people to do evil things to women” — before her husband dismissed her subject and thereby discouraged her ambition. »
- Karina Longworth
Exclusive! A Scene from Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist”
22 October 2009 8:42 AM, PDT | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
Tonight, October 22 at midnight, Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist” will opens in the U.S. in a limited release. indieWIRE is pleased to unveil an exclusive clip of the new film courtesy of IFC Films. In the movie, a mother (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is crippled by the loss of her toddler son. Her husband (Willem Dafoe) takes her out of psychiatric care and begins his own psychological regimen, which takes them back to … »
Willem Dafoe On Getting Nude In 'Antichrist,' Working With Director Lars Von Trier
21 October 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
This week, (limited) audiences will finally get to see what all the fuss was at this year's Cannes over director Lars Von Trier's art-horror flick, "Antichrist." The unconventional tale of a husband and wife who try to cope with the tragic loss of their son by hiding out in the woods takes a dark turn as the unnamed man's (Willem Dafoe) attempts to psychoanalyze his unnamed wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) elicit a violent response. I don't want to spoil anything, but it is worth noting that the term "genital mutilation" has been thrown around to describe just a few of the horrors you'll witness as the story reaches its endgame.
MTV's Josh Horowitz had the opportunity recently to speak with Dafoe, who was more than happy to discuss the experience of working with Von Trier. As one of the founders of the Dogme 95 movement -- a style of filmmaking defined »
- Adam Rosenberg
Languages: An Interview with Patrice Chéreau
21 October 2009 11:58 AM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
Persecution may very well be Patrice Chéreau's most abrasive film. That's saying a lot. After the Cannes-ready provocations of Queen Margot, Chéreau directed Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train, the film that introduced the stance he's held for the last decade: an abrasive humanism that abandons all pretensions of style or taste to unbendingly identify with unlikeable people. If we saint the Dardennes for their devotion to victims, we should saint Chéreau for his devotion to victimizers. Though his 2005 feature Gabrielle remains his masterpiece (if we apply that term to Chéreau, a director who makes "mastery" seem worthless), there's much to be said about Pesecution's story of an ordinary asshole (Romain Duris) who realizes he feels more comfortable around his pathetic stalker (Jean-Hugues Anglade) than his independent girlfriend (Charlotte Gainsbourg).
Besides directing, Chéreau has an enviable resume as an actor, having worked with Youssef Chahine, Andrzej Wajda, »
Danish director Lars von Trier wins Nordic Council Film Prize
21 October 2009 7:23 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Copenhagen - Danish director Lars von Trier was Wednesday named winner of the 2009 Nordic Council Film Prize, worth 350,000 kroner (70,000 dollars). Von Trier and producer Meta Louise Foldager were awarded for the movie Antichrist, 'a wild, visually beautiful and shockingly violent film about sorrow, rage and guilt,' the jury said. The film premiered at the Cannes film festival in May, and generated a heated debate. Charlotte Gainsbourg won a best actress award at Cannes for her portrayal of a woman losing her mind. The Nordic Council Film Prize has been awarded since 2002 when Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki won with his movie The Man Without A Past. The film prize was due to be »
Satan's Churches
21 October 2009 7:04 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Those who say that "Antichrist" is without redeeming value don't know what the hell they're talking about. Because despite Lars von Trier's images of child death, bodily torture and forest animals in various states of evisceration, not to mention dialogue that could cause temporary damage to the brain, "Antichrist" does have genuine healing power. A short time before the grieving parents known only as He (Willem Dafoe) and She (Charlotte Gainsbourg) are (spoiler alert!) genitally mutilated, He teaches She the "five, five, and five" method of breathing -- that's five seconds each for the inhaling, holding, and exhaling of breath. Stress relief in just 15 seconds! Try it now -- it's free and it really works! Thanks, Lars!
Another Halloween-season cure for what ails -- albeit longer to take, at 93 minutes -- is "The House of the Devil." This is a horror film without pretentious chapter breaks, psychotherapy spews, intimations »
- Rob Nelson
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