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	Lars von Trier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism.
		Lars von Trier was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
		His peers at the film school nicknamed him "von Trier." The name is sort of an inside-joke with the von part suggesting nobility, while Lars and Trier are quite common names in Denmark.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lars_von_Trier (1583 words)

	"Dancer in the Dark" - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Von Trier has been directing features, shorts and TV series since the late '70s, but he didn't gain international attention until the 1996 "Breaking the Waves," a logy, depressing parable about faith and sex shot in faded colors with a wobbly, weaving camera.
		Von Trier has a predilection for tales of misery and heartache informed by hoary mores that represent the worst of the Victorian age.
		With "Waves," von Trier's crimes were already stacked a mile high; with "Dancer in the Dark," his tall tower of insolence topples with a hollow clatter.
	dir.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/09/22/trier_dancer (658 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Lars Von Trier — Pornographer?
		Von Trier’s fondness for explicit sexuality is further evidenced in the various script drafts of Breaking the Waves and The Idiots, versions of the films that reflect his original thinking more accurately than the finished motion pictures, which were driven in a mainstream direction by commercial considerations.
		Von Trier wasn’t indulging in pornography to turn people on — the basest but perhaps most honest motivation — but rather was depicting the spiritual degradation of a woman who had the emotional development of a child, and subjecting her to depraved sex was just a means to an end.
		Von Trier is not involved in the creative genesis of these films, although release of the pictures is dependent on his say-so.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /43/trier.htm (2213 words)

	Lars von Trier
		That same year, von Trier experienced his own personal drama when he left his then-pregnant wife and moved in with their much younger babysitter, whom he later married.
		In 2000, von Trier released Dancer in the Dark, starring singer Bjork as a woman who moves to the US in the ‘60’s and expects it to be like a Hollywood film.
		Von Trier has also published Dogma 95, a manifesto with the goal of counteracting specific tendencies in contemporary film, such as special effects.
	www.tribute.ca /DIRECTORS/BIOS/5167.htm (393 words)

	Biography for Lars von Trier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lars von Trier (the "von" was adopted during his stay at the Danish Film School) was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in April 1956.
		With Dancer in the Dark (2000), Lars von Trier made a melodrama about an east European woman, who sacrifices everything, literally, to save her son from getting the same eye-illness as she herself suffers from, and thereby going blind.
		If not for his movies, Lars von Trier is going to be remembered for his TV soap "The Kingdom"; ("Riget") from 1994; a soap in which Lars von Trier is blending his own cinematic style with a David Lynch-like surrealistic story about ghosts, god and satan.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0001885/bio (1312 words)

	Lars von Trier
		Lars Trier (He added 'von' in the tradition of Eric von Stroheim) was born April 30, 1956 in Copenhagen to what Lucia Bozzola describes as “radical, nudist Communist parents.” (2) Speaking of his childhood, von Trier recollects:
		Von Trier's first three films – all presented in dazzling, baroque virtuosity are a trilogy about a Europe that has been lulled to sleep in the midst of its own chaos and death.
		It seems to me that von Trier, as a Roman Catholic, is meditating on the face of justice presented in the Old Testament and the face of mercy presented in the New Testament.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/vontrier.html (4228 words)

	New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		VON TRIER: These two films were inspired by literature—and I started with their endings.
		VON TRIER: For Dogville, it was Pirate Jenny’s song about a girl working in a small hotel who imagines a ship that bombards the tow to rescue her from the poor life she has, and they ask her who’s going to die, and she says “everybody.”
		VON TRIER: Manderlay was written for Nicole (Kidman, star of Dogville), but we couldn’t wait a year and a half for her to be free to shoot it.
	www.nypress.com /19/4/film/jennifermerin.cfm (1346 words)

	Lars Von Trier films - DVD & VHS - MovieMail UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Trier's follow-up to the magnificent Dogville continues the saga of Grace (Howard takes over from Nicole Kidman), who now finds herself attempting to liberate a group of fl workers who have n...
		The first two films from Von Trier's planned trilogy exploring the adventures of Grace, the gangster's daughter, whose strong sense of righteouness affects those around her.
		Von Trier's intense latter-day religious parable takes several laudable (and award-winning) risks in telling the tale of Bess (Emily Watson), a young woman having 'conversations with God' and co...
	www.moviemail-online.co.uk /directors/959 (452 words)

	The Film Fanatic :: Director Profile: Lars von Trier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lars von Trier is one of those directors that you either love or hate; there is seldom a middle road where his work is concerned.
		Lars von Trier is also a darling of the Cannes Film Festival, where all his films have featured since his debut feature Element of Crime in 1984.
		Von Trier is part of a new generation of Danish filmmakers.
	www.tashitagg.com /forum/weblog_entry.php?e=672 (1903 words)

	Lars von Trier: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		Lars von Trier's manipulation of film form is crucial to his filmic treatment of trauma and the foregrounding of affect in the formation of the spectator positions made available to us.
		Lars Von Trier says that he started using word 'von' at film school as it seemed the most provocative thing to do.
		Lars von Triers talks about his film, Dogville, which is a tale of martyrdom, revenge and hypocrisy and it hardly seems un-American to him.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/vontrierbib.html (2551 words)

	Lars has Our Nicole on a leash - smh.com.au
		Nicole Kidman and Lars von Trier had a three-hour screaming match in a forest to clear the air while shooting the Danish director's latest epic - but she still loves working with him.
		Despite her initial aversion to acting with a dog that is a chalk drawing on the ground, and dragging around a weighted chain attached to her neck, Kidman pledged, in front of hundreds of journalists, to extend the film into a trilogy.
		Todd McCarthy writes on Variety.com: "After critiquing the death penalty in Dancer in the Dark, Lars von Trier dispenses it in Dogville, an artistically experimental, ideologically apocalyptic blast at American values that is as obvious in intent as it is murky in aesthetic achievement.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/05/20/1053196578500.html (576 words)

	Trust Film Sales
		Lars von Trier is born in 1956 and graduated from The Danish Film School in 1983.
		Lars von Trier is without a doubt the director who has contributed most to the renewal of Danish
		Lars von Trier made two TV productions MEDEA in 1988 and THE TEACHERS´ROOM in 1994, but with THE KINGDOM I (1994) and KINGDOM II (1997) both co-directed with Arnfred, Trier realised that the technical style is less important for the audience than story and characters.
	www.trust-film.dk /off_vis_instruktor.asp?id=25 (491 words)

	Lars von Trier @ Filmbug
		Lars von Trier established himself both in Denmark and internationally with the Europa Trilogy.
		It was with THE KINGDOM series that Lars von Trier created a technical style which made it easier to focus on the story and the actors.
		The manifesto was signed by von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg (FESTEN, winner of the Special Jury Prize in Cannes).
	www.filmbug.com /db/4303 (584 words)

	Lars von Trier x 6 (1993)
		The Danish director Lar von Trier isn't a 'nice' director, he dosen't make wholesome, easily understood films, but cinematic extravagances that defy you to be indifferent to their contusions.
		What von Trier does is invest his cinematics with its own force and intention, making the screen think as we watch it.
		This is allied with a love of dreamy narrative, his cinematics made conscious but never completely understandable in their result; von Trier finds it perverse 'having all these films presenting coherent arguments, when life, the world and dreams, none of them make sense.
	www.filmosophy.org /articles/vontrier (3148 words)

	LA Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Trier —who added the “von” to his name when he was still in film school — pours himself a glass of O.P. Anderson, a Swedish aquavit, and offers me one.
		Trier would have dearly loved to steal Hollywood’s biggest female star for three entire movies, but, in retrospect, he thinks it unlikely that Kidman’s handlers would have permitted it: Far too much money is at stake in her career to blow it on the Scandinavian avant-garde.
		Trier, along with his good friend Thomas Vinterberg, director of the international Danish Dogme hit Celebration, has an office in what is known as “the bullet room,” a small one-story building where ammunition was once stored.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/04/18/features-bernhard.php (5926 words)

	Lars von Trier interview - The TOMB movie news - Time Out Film
		Von Trier is known for throwing such niceties as 'What's your next stupid question?' into interviews, but today he's in a good mood.
		At which von Trier suggests that it is only a matter of historical accident that Americans speak English, not German.
		He hasn’t finished the script yet, but when I speak to Vibeke Windeløv, von Trier's producer, she explains that it will be called something like 'The Boss' or 'The Chairman'; she is searching for a business in Copenhagen that will allow its offices and staff to be used in the film.
	www.timeout.com /film/news/553.html (1904 words)

	Lars von Trier
		Media attention reached its peak when von Trier created Dogme 95, a movement dedicated to the "Vow of Chastity," which strips cinema of its artifice, flash, and polish.
		They begin in 1968, when von Trier was the lead actor in a children's TV series, and end in 2001.
		Von Trier speaks of his visions, ideals, dislikes, and technical experimentations, of his conception of actors, his childhood, his phobias, and of his views on religion and his ill-fated female protagonists.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/spring2003/lars_von_trier.html (385 words)

	DISPATCH FROM CANNES: George Lucas and Lars von Trier, With "Manderlay" and "Sith," Two Americans Question America?
		In Lars von Trier's powerful new film "Manderlay" (screened for press earlier today here in Cannes) -- the second installment in his USA trilogy -- the Danish filmmaker tackles slavery as a key topic.
		With the knowledge that Lars von Trier has never been to America, journalists this morning asked the filmmaker to address his reasons for pursuing a trilogy of films set in the United States.
		However, von Trier has decided to put his American films on hold for a bit, rather than immediately begin work on the third part of the trilogy he has decided to instead work on a new Dogme movie.
	www.indiewire.com /onthescene/onthescene_050516cann.html (1099 words)

	LARS VON TRIER
		Lars von Trier was raised by nudist Jewish Communist parents who did not allow much room in their household for "feelings, religion, or enjoyment," as von Trier later said.
		This film was followed by Epidemic (1987) that was also shown as part of the official program at Cannes.
		Lars von Trier overcame his dislike of traveling to present the second Dogme film, The Idiots (1998), in person at the Cannes Film Festival.
	www.1worldfilms.com /larsvontrier.htm (763 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Save up to 30% on bestselling DVDs. Free shipping within Canada available on orders over $39 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lars von Trier's digicam musical split the critics in two when it debuted at Cannes in 2000.
		The latest galvanizing and controversial film from Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves, The Kingdom), Dogville uses ingenious theatricality to tell the Depression-era story of Grace (Nicole Kidman, The Others), a beautiful fugitive who stumbles onto a tiny town in the Rocky...
		Set in an unmercifully rugged, coastal village in Scotland in the 1970s, this extraordinary film by Lars von Trier stars British actress Emily Watson as a barely contained naive named Bess, who holds regular conversations with God and whose pure and intensely personal faith is hardly tolerated by...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/15665901 (334 words)

	Lars von Trier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I Lars von Triers rige (1999) (TV) (also archive footage)....
		Tranceformer - A Portrait of Lars von Trier (1997)....
		From Dreyer to von Trier: An Interview with Cinematographer Henning Bendtsen (2005) (V) (uncredited)....
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0001885 (1109 words)

	larsvontrier
		On New Year’s Eve, 1999, five different groups of actors were set loose in Copenhagen with accompanying video crews; the four filmmakers were able to direct their actors and crews from a central control booth, and the results were broadcast live on seven different TV channels.
		Director Lars von Trier’s tense, experimental look at a woman who is disrupted by shattered glass and afraid of sunlight recalls the work of avant-garde pioneers Maya Deren and Luis Buñuel.
		Von Trier’s graduation film at the National Film School of Denmark, IMAGES also earned him the Best Film Award at the 1982 Munich Film Festival.
	egyptiantheatre.com /archive1999/2004/larsvontrier.htm (1283 words)

	Manderlay movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review
		Lars von Trier has got into hot water over a bit of animal butchery in his next movie Manderlay.
		He has decided to cut scenes of a donkey being slaughtered after animal rights protesters, he is thought to have cut the scene as it would draw away attention from the politicial and social content of the movie.
		Actor John C. Reilly has apparantly left the cast of Lars Von Trier's Manderlay in protest to a scene which required an old donkey to be put down.
	thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/m/mandalay.shtm (709 words)

	The Five Obstructions
		The other possibility is one or two poems that I wrote after the Obstructions– conversations with Lars von Trier.
		In Lars von Trier's debut entry into the world of documentary, he challenges his hero and former teacher, veteran filmmaker Jørgen Leth, five times to remake Leth's 1967 cult short The Perfect Human, a film von Trier claims to have seen thirty times.
		For each remake, von Trier imposes a series of obstructions (some formal, some downright metaphysical) and discusses the outcome with Leth before sending him off to shoot the next version.
	www.movienet.com /5Obstructions.html (1027 words)

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