Stars: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Sofie Gråbøl, Riley Keough, Jeremy Davies | Written and Directed by Lars von Trier
The House That Jack Built is the latest, and reportedly final, cinematic effort from the meretricious and petulant director Lars von Trier. A visionary master of bold and repellent art, with a twisted irony of benevolent nature formulated in the most offensive and auspicious manner possible, Von Trier excels in the morally artificial and frugal seduction. His most recent effort is a masterstroke of meta and self-referential testy ravenous appalling nature, possibly so significant in fact, in a darkly evocative expose of mankind, it may just be his magnum opus.
Matt Dillon stars in the titular role of Jack. A haunting portrayal of monstrous bigotry and murderous gluttony. Dillon, an often overlooked actor with tremendous ability and filmography to prove it, provokes a grand sense of audacious...
The House That Jack Built is the latest, and reportedly final, cinematic effort from the meretricious and petulant director Lars von Trier. A visionary master of bold and repellent art, with a twisted irony of benevolent nature formulated in the most offensive and auspicious manner possible, Von Trier excels in the morally artificial and frugal seduction. His most recent effort is a masterstroke of meta and self-referential testy ravenous appalling nature, possibly so significant in fact, in a darkly evocative expose of mankind, it may just be his magnum opus.
Matt Dillon stars in the titular role of Jack. A haunting portrayal of monstrous bigotry and murderous gluttony. Dillon, an often overlooked actor with tremendous ability and filmography to prove it, provokes a grand sense of audacious...
- 12/20/2018
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Young female filmmakers took home the lions share of awards in Emirates and International Shorts competitions of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.Scroll down for full list of winners
The next generation of Emirati filmmakers will made up in large part by women, guaging by the winners of the Emirates Film Competition (Efc) at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
The ceremony to announce the ‘Black Pearl Awards’, held at the Emirates Palace, saw all six student prizes won by women including Noura Al Zarouni for her narrative short I Don’t Understand and Reem Al Meqbali for her short documentary Oops!.
Hosting the event, presenter Said Al mamari said: “Congratulations to the female winners. And they say it’s a macho society!”
Now in its 12th year, this year’s selection comprised 49 short films from across the Gulf region, including 36 from the UAE.
The Efc jury was led by Ahmed Rachedi (Algeria) and comprised Oday Rasheed (Iraq...
The next generation of Emirati filmmakers will made up in large part by women, guaging by the winners of the Emirates Film Competition (Efc) at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
The ceremony to announce the ‘Black Pearl Awards’, held at the Emirates Palace, saw all six student prizes won by women including Noura Al Zarouni for her narrative short I Don’t Understand and Reem Al Meqbali for her short documentary Oops!.
Hosting the event, presenter Said Al mamari said: “Congratulations to the female winners. And they say it’s a macho society!”
Now in its 12th year, this year’s selection comprised 49 short films from across the Gulf region, including 36 from the UAE.
The Efc jury was led by Ahmed Rachedi (Algeria) and comprised Oday Rasheed (Iraq...
- 10/30/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Silver Linings Playbook actress to lead Narrative Competition jury.
The juries of the 7th Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Oct 24-Nov 2) have been revealed.
The Narrative Competition jury president is Australian actress Jacki Weaver, best known for her Oscar-nominated performances in David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom and David O. Russell’s The Silver Linings Playbook.
Joining her on the jury are Israeli actress Hiam Abbass, chief executive of Film London and the British Film Commission Adrian Wootton, Tunisian producer Dora Bouchoucha and Sandra den Hamer, current CEO of Eye Film Institute Netherlands.
The New Horizons Competition jury is lead by Yeşim Ustaoğlu, director of Turkish drama Araf.
Ustaoğlu is assisted by Irene Bignardi, co-founder of daily newspaper La Repubblica and former director of the Locarno Film Festival (2000–05), Moroccan filmmaker Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, Ukrainian director Valery Todorovsky and Lebanese director Michel Kammoun.
President of the Documentary Competition is the co-director and artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff...
The juries of the 7th Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Oct 24-Nov 2) have been revealed.
The Narrative Competition jury president is Australian actress Jacki Weaver, best known for her Oscar-nominated performances in David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom and David O. Russell’s The Silver Linings Playbook.
Joining her on the jury are Israeli actress Hiam Abbass, chief executive of Film London and the British Film Commission Adrian Wootton, Tunisian producer Dora Bouchoucha and Sandra den Hamer, current CEO of Eye Film Institute Netherlands.
The New Horizons Competition jury is lead by Yeşim Ustaoğlu, director of Turkish drama Araf.
Ustaoğlu is assisted by Irene Bignardi, co-founder of daily newspaper La Repubblica and former director of the Locarno Film Festival (2000–05), Moroccan filmmaker Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, Ukrainian director Valery Todorovsky and Lebanese director Michel Kammoun.
President of the Documentary Competition is the co-director and artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff...
- 10/23/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
We wrote previously on Lars von Trier‘s latest project – a crowdsourced challenge to filmmakers to reinterpret 6 great works of art called Gesamt – but the film now has a trailer that’s exactly as enigmatic as we could have hoped for. Director Justin D. Hilliard of Striped Socks Productions contacted us, letting us know that his is one of the few American projects to be chosen for the installation, which is built from 142 pieces sent in from around the world. The movie will premiere at the Copenhagen Art Festival. Creators were prompted to re-interpret James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” August Strindberg’s “The father,” the Zeppelinfield in Nuremberg, Paul Gauguin’s “Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?,” the collected improvisations of Cesar Franck and the collected music of Sammy Davis, Jr. The pieces were to be used as inspiration, but couldn’t be directly in the 5 minutes of footage sent in. It...
- 10/3/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Nathaniel, here, returning to home base. I'm baaaa--aack. Did you miss me? I shan't take another day off until late October so I'm all yours again! But before we get started again, hugs and kisses and floral bouquets and firm handshakes to Leslye, Melanie, Beau, Jose, Ja and Matt for filling in for the week.
The internet moves with such speed -- except while visiting relatives in internet challenged rural Utah -- that if you're gone for a week you can totally miss seismic events. Here are some webthingies I'm so so glad people alerted me to so that I didn't miss them in my spotty connectivity travels. I'm sharing them on the off chance you missed them. No one should have to!
Revenge came out on DVD! - a magical elf in PR made sure I received mine. Thanks you! The cover of the Season 1 box is Emily in...
The internet moves with such speed -- except while visiting relatives in internet challenged rural Utah -- that if you're gone for a week you can totally miss seismic events. Here are some webthingies I'm so so glad people alerted me to so that I didn't miss them in my spotty connectivity travels. I'm sharing them on the off chance you missed them. No one should have to!
Revenge came out on DVD! - a magical elf in PR made sure I received mine. Thanks you! The cover of the Season 1 box is Emily in...
- 8/31/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Provocative Danish director Lars von Trier has made some brilliant films and some very stupid comments. So it comes as no big surprise that his latest project, an innovative user-generated film competition entitled "Gesamt," comes with a caveat.
Von Trier is known for films like "Antichrist" and "Melancholia" -- works as devastatingly stunning as they are emotionally devastating. At Cannes last year, he made waves during a press conference by stating, when he said: "I understand much about [Hitler], and I sympathize with him a little bit." While the New York Times referred to the statement as "jokingly" spoken, Von Trier's upcoming project casts more doubt upon this hope.
When expressing frustrations with the co-producers of "Melancholia," von Trier relayed his feelings to the Guardian: "If you are so g*ddamn clever, why the f**k don't you do the film yourself?" Now he challenges the public to do just that,...
Von Trier is known for films like "Antichrist" and "Melancholia" -- works as devastatingly stunning as they are emotionally devastating. At Cannes last year, he made waves during a press conference by stating, when he said: "I understand much about [Hitler], and I sympathize with him a little bit." While the New York Times referred to the statement as "jokingly" spoken, Von Trier's upcoming project casts more doubt upon this hope.
When expressing frustrations with the co-producers of "Melancholia," von Trier relayed his feelings to the Guardian: "If you are so g*ddamn clever, why the f**k don't you do the film yourself?" Now he challenges the public to do just that,...
- 8/14/2012
- by Priscilla Frank
- Huffington Post
With either gearing up for their next outings and, in one’s case, having a fair share of future projects to choose from, it’s becoming more and more clear that Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier will never make their own Five Obstructions. (Read here to know why this should be a huge disappointment.) In a weird way, though — i.e., I have a habit of reading too much into announcements — the latter’s newest enterprise might be a way of fulfilling this creative desire.
A press release from the Copenhagen Art Festival has announced Gesamt, von Trier‘s challenge to anybody (anybody!) with the right creative impulse: take “six great works of art,” create a film or audio recording that takes direct inspiration from it, and submit your work for this project. Director Jenle Hallund will help shape the final piece, picking the best titles and creating something.
A press release from the Copenhagen Art Festival has announced Gesamt, von Trier‘s challenge to anybody (anybody!) with the right creative impulse: take “six great works of art,” create a film or audio recording that takes direct inspiration from it, and submit your work for this project. Director Jenle Hallund will help shape the final piece, picking the best titles and creating something.
- 8/13/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
As part of the Copenhagen Art Festival, Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier is challenging people, as usual, with "Gesamt," an open invitation to folks around the globe to reinterpret six great works of art through a lens or recording sound. Trier sets the rules for the film project (see trailer below) and invites us all to create the content. Director Jenle Hallund will put everything together at the end. Questions the projects poses: What is the result when people reinterpret the great and controversial art pieces of our time? Is it for everyone to make art? What is art? And do we stand out the most when we stand together? “This project is interesting because it is based on ordinary people's creativity and imagination," Hallud says. "Therefore It has the potential to reveal the health of a civilization by exposing its soul. Together we can try and create a cacophonous...
- 8/13/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
The German word “gesamt” means “total,” but it can also mean “aggregate.” It’s also the name of Lars Von Trier‘s newest project. According to a press release, von Trier is asking anyone within earshot to submit work for the film, which will ultimately be cobbled together from entries by Danish director Jenle Hallund. The rules are pretty simple. Each participant can submit up to 5 minutes of material (but can submit as many times as he or she wants) by September 6th, 2012. Von Trier and the production have offered these 6 iconic artworks as inspiration: James Joyces’ “Ulysses“ August Strindberg’s play “The father“ The Zeppelinfield in Nuremberg, designed by Hitler’s main architect Albert Speer Paul Gauguin’s painting “Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?” (See below) The collected improvisations of Cesar Franck The collected music of Sammy Davis, Jr. But none of them should directly be in your final...
- 8/13/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Lars von Trier Gesamt: A ‘challenge’ and an ‘invitation’ to ‘the people’ Lars von Trier has issued "an open invitation to people around the globe," reads a press release from Danish Agency for Culture. That "open invitation" is represented by the Copenhagen Art Festival’s film project Gesamt; von Trier is asking individuals worldwide "to reinterpret six great works of art through the lens of their camera or recording of sound." Five of those "great works of art" are European (see below); one, Sammy Davis Jr, is an American. Jenle Hallund, a script consultant in von Trier’s Melancholia and the director of the 2011 Zentropa [...]...
- 8/13/2012
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
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