Tag: The House that Jack Built
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In The House That Jack Built, Lars von Trier Has a Reason for the Violence
It’s no news Lars von Trier is a provocative filmmaker who enjoys making the public squirm, and all of his movies have stories of people walking out of theaters in disgust. In the case of The House That Jack Built, more than a hundred people left the film’s premiere at Cannes, disturbed by the graphic…
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Von Trier, Alonso, Martel Producer Marianne Slot Goes From ‘Woman at War’ to ‘Normal Men,’ ‘Oca’ (Exclusive)
Producer Marianne Slot will continue her successful collaboration with Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson, following 2018 “Woman at War” with TV show “The Danish Woman” and upcoming feature film “Normal Men.”“It’s a comedy, as you can imagine. Benedikt Erlingsson and a feminist producer – that’s a good combination,” she laughs, recalling their previous film about an…
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Lars von Trier Will Take a Break After Parkinson’s Diagnosis: It’s a ‘Pity’ for Actors to Work with Me Now
Lars von Trier is opening up about his Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis.The “Antichrist” auteur was diagnosed four months prior to the 2022 Venice Film Festival, where the long-awaited Season 3 of “The Kingdom” premiered 28 years after the TV show first debuted.During a press conference at the festival, the director admitted to having Parkinson’s symptoms for…
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‘The Kingdom’: Lars Von Trier Returns To His Cult ’90s Series With Third Season
If you thought revivals of ’80s and ’90s properties only applied to big-budget Hollywood productions, think again. Almost like he was taking a cue from “Twin Peaks: The Return,” Lars von Trier will be returning to an earlier period in his career and make a third and final season to his hospital drama “The Kingdom.”Read…
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The House That Jack Built review – a killer with room for improvement
Matt Dillon’s crazed architect recalls Lars von Trier’s grisly greatest hits in the director’s perversely timed black comedyIn 2011, I interviewed Lars von Trier at his Zentropa offices in Denmark. I told him how much I liked Anti-Christ and Melancholia, while also confessing that I absolutely hated The Idiots. “That’s Ok,” he replied, “as long…
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Matt Dillon Says Lars von Trier Isn’t Evil and that ‘The House That Jack Built’ Is Art
[Editor’s note: This article contains some spoilers for “The House That Jack Built.”]Before Matt Dillon agreed to play the title role in “The House That Jack Built” — a disturbing and inflammatory epic about a frustrated serial killer who preys on a wide variety of women across the long span of his adult life —…
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Lars Von Trier’s ‘House That Jack Built’ Baits Controversy With Shocking Posters of Characters Tied Up and Contorted
Lars von Trier’s serial killer drama “The House That Jack Built” has returned to stir up controversy all over again with the release of seven teaser posters featuring slightly graphic images of the movie’s main characters tied up with their bodies contorted. Anyone who took issue with the film’s depiction of violence towards women probably…
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Eric Khoo to Launch Scream Asia Festival in Singapore
Singapore horror film “Zombiepura” will get its world premiere next month as the opening film of the new horror festival Scream Asia. The event launches in Singapore and plays Oct. 19-28.Other titles will include Lars von Trier’s “The House That Jack Built,” Brazilian director Guto Parente’s “The Cannibal Club” and Korean director Yeon Sang-ho’s “The…
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Lars Von Trier Denies Inappropriate Behavior With Bjork And Thinks #MeToo Is A “Brilliant Idea”
After the controversial premiere of his most recent film, “The House That Jack Built,” Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier has found himself at the center of a media storm. The spotlight comes from, partially, the harsh, white-hot reaction to ‘Jack’ at the Cannes Film Festival, but it’s also self-made. In recent days, the director’s been…
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Does Lars von Trier’s ‘vomitive’ new film spell the end for provocative cinema?
There was a mass walkout at the Cannes premiere of von Trier’s The House that Jack Built. From A Clockwork Orange to Driller Killer, cinema has always courted controversy – but could we be entering a more cautious age?There is a stampede to get into The House That Jack Built and then, not long after,…