The Idiots is something like a holy grail among Lars von Trier’s corpus, long out-of-print and legendary (even among his provocations) for its comic treatment of social disruption. It’s also the only feature von Trier made per Dogme 95 rules (you probably know at least a handful off the top of your head but just in case) and thus the one most aided by a 4K restoration––coming this month courtesy Mubi, who are doing the Lord’s (or Devil’s) work with a major rollout of his work.
Ahead of a June 16 debut at Metrograph and Mubi stream on July 7, a new preview shows off the Dogme judder and grain with effervescence, the enterprise boosted by emphatic quotes from Joachim Trier and Sean Baker. Suddenly the years spent waiting to fill this blind spot seem justified.
Preview and poster are below:
Celebrating it’s 25th anniversary, next month...
Ahead of a June 16 debut at Metrograph and Mubi stream on July 7, a new preview shows off the Dogme judder and grain with effervescence, the enterprise boosted by emphatic quotes from Joachim Trier and Sean Baker. Suddenly the years spent waiting to fill this blind spot seem justified.
Preview and poster are below:
Celebrating it’s 25th anniversary, next month...
- 6/5/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
“The Kingdom Exodus” begins with a joke, and for the next five hours, it never gets serious, not even for a second. That’s not what you might expect for the long-delayed finale to Lars von Trier’s made-for-tv horror series, though it sure makes this over-the-top return to the haunted Rigshospitalet — that big, brutalist medical center in the heart of Copenhagen — a lot more fun.
For all of two minutes, von Trier tricks us into thinking that maybe this third season is going to look like a polished, peak-tv miniseries of the sort you might find on HBO or Netflix. We open on a closeup of a woman’s eye, ideally lit and steadily framed, reflecting a TV screen on which a tuxedoed von Trier appears, a quarter-century younger, over the credits of Season 2’s final episode.
“How can they peddle such half-baked hooey? That’s no ending,” grouses...
For all of two minutes, von Trier tricks us into thinking that maybe this third season is going to look like a polished, peak-tv miniseries of the sort you might find on HBO or Netflix. We open on a closeup of a woman’s eye, ideally lit and steadily framed, reflecting a TV screen on which a tuxedoed von Trier appears, a quarter-century younger, over the credits of Season 2’s final episode.
“How can they peddle such half-baked hooey? That’s no ending,” grouses...
- 9/1/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Anders Thomas Jensen takes us through some of his most formative cinematic experiences.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Election Night (1998)
Mifune (1999)
Riders of Justice (2020)
Star Wars (1977)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Reptilicus (1961)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Innerspace (1987)
Amazon Women On The Moon (1987)
Airplane! (1980)
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
Das Boot (1982)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Ryan’s Daughter (1970)
The Apartment (1960)
The Producers (1967)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975)
Key Largo (1948)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Blood Simple (1984)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Boss Level (2021?)
Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Palm Springs (2020)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Amadeus (1984)
Ed Wood (1994)
The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
A Prophet (2009)
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Unforgiven (1992)
Joe Kidd (1972)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Other Notable Items
Our friends at Movies Unlimited!
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Election Night (1998)
Mifune (1999)
Riders of Justice (2020)
Star Wars (1977)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Reptilicus (1961)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Innerspace (1987)
Amazon Women On The Moon (1987)
Airplane! (1980)
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
Das Boot (1982)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Ryan’s Daughter (1970)
The Apartment (1960)
The Producers (1967)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975)
Key Largo (1948)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Blood Simple (1984)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Boss Level (2021?)
Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Palm Springs (2020)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Amadeus (1984)
Ed Wood (1994)
The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
A Prophet (2009)
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Unforgiven (1992)
Joe Kidd (1972)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Other Notable Items
Our friends at Movies Unlimited!
- 6/8/2021
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Director Darren Aronofsky and cinematographer Matthew Libatique naturally gravitated toward one another when they arrived on the American Film Institute campus in the fall of 1990. “We just had a lot of similar aesthetic and things that connected us,” said Aronofsky. “We met on the third day at AFI. I think Matty was probably the youngest guy in his DoP program, and I was one of the youngest guys in the directing program; Matty’s from Queens, I’m from Brooklyn, and we both grew up listening to hip hop.”
The emergence of the New York City underground hip hop scene wasn’t the only thing that impacted the two future collaborators as teens, it was also when independent film started to rise out of Hollywood’s 1980s nadir. “I stumbled into ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ at a local movie theater in Brooklyn,” said Aronofsky of Spike Lee’s 1986 indie breakout.
The emergence of the New York City underground hip hop scene wasn’t the only thing that impacted the two future collaborators as teens, it was also when independent film started to rise out of Hollywood’s 1980s nadir. “I stumbled into ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ at a local movie theater in Brooklyn,” said Aronofsky of Spike Lee’s 1986 indie breakout.
- 1/20/2021
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
What if maintaining a constant amount of alcohol in your blood could open your mind, boost creativity, and generally improve your life? That’s the premise of Thomas Vinterberg’s new movie, which he presented Monday at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon.
“Another Round” (“Druk”) is one of 23 films originally selected for Cannes that are being screened at Lumière, whose director is also Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux. The film picked up best actor in San Sebastian for its four leads, including Mads Mikkelsen, whose last film with Vinterberg also won him best actor, this time in Cannes.
“Another Round” tells the story of four middle-aged friends who have lost their appetite for life and decide to experiment living with a constant level of alcohol in their blood.
“It’s not just a film about drinking. Our ambition was to make a film about living,” said Vinterberg, adding how the...
“Another Round” (“Druk”) is one of 23 films originally selected for Cannes that are being screened at Lumière, whose director is also Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux. The film picked up best actor in San Sebastian for its four leads, including Mads Mikkelsen, whose last film with Vinterberg also won him best actor, this time in Cannes.
“Another Round” tells the story of four middle-aged friends who have lost their appetite for life and decide to experiment living with a constant level of alcohol in their blood.
“It’s not just a film about drinking. Our ambition was to make a film about living,” said Vinterberg, adding how the...
- 10/14/2020
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
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