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ANTICHRIST (VON TRIER)
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In Lars von Trier's "horror film," Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg retreat to a wooded cabin after the loss of their son, only to [gruesome spoiler].
BOSS OF IT ALL
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Comedy is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the           dogmatic Dane Lars von Trier, but that's the most economical way to describe     The Boss of It All. Instead of harping on America, the director focuses    his cynicism on his homeland. Ravn (Peter Gantzler), the owner of an IT firm   in Copenhagen, wants to sell to an Icelandic company. They insist on meeting   the company's nonexistent president first, so Ravn hires an unemployed actor   (Jens Albinus) for the part and the farce begins. "The mere idea of an actor     convincingly impersonating a C.E.O. is inherently and deliciously              disrespectful of the sacred capitalistic system" (Andrew Sarris, The New    York Observer). In Danish and Icelandic with English subtitles.             Lars von Trier---Denmark/Sweden/France/Italy---2006---100 mins.
DANCER IN THE DARK
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Few films have inspired as passionately divided critical reaction as Lars von    Trier's unusual musical melodrama about a factory worker, rapidly going blind,   who finds escape in the fantasy world of Hollywood musicals. The highly          original singer-songwriter Bjork, in only her second dramatic feature, won     Best Actress honors at Cannes for her deeply felt performance as the film's    tragic heroine. Shot on digital video (reportedly with over 100 cameras), the  movie maintains a rough-hewn look even when it departs from scenes of stark      realism for its offbeat musical production numbers. Bjork also wrote or        co-wrote the original songs (with the director contributing to many). Like von Trier's Breaking the Waves, this is a story of a woman's almost          unrelenting suffering, and the intent of the emotional tone of the film has      been read in many ways by different reviewers. Winner of the Palme d'Or at     Cannes. With Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Jean-Marc Barr    Lars von Trier---Denmark/Sweden/France---2000---141 mins.
DAZZLING DIRECTORS: AN EXCLUSIVE FACETS 2-PACK
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This double release boasts the talents of Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi, Lars von Trier, and Carl Theodor Dryer.
DOGVILLE
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Enigmatic director Lars von Trier continues the examination of the United        States he began in Dancer in the Dark with this dark account of a woman    (Nicole Kidman) on the run in Depression-era America, who takes refuge in a      small mining town. Sanctuary is short-lived, though, as the town slowly turns  on her. Using the barest essentials - a minimalist set on a near-blank         soundstage with few props, von Trier masterfully evokes the beauty, horror and rage born from her stay and creates a powerful statement on man's lack of        humanity. Also stars Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgard, Lauren Bacall, Blair     Brown, Patricia Clarkson, Jeremy Davies, Ben Gazzara, Chloe Sevigny and Philip Baker Hall, with narration by John Hurt.                                       Lars von Trier---Denmark---2003---177 mins.
ELEMENT OF CRIME
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Winner of the Technical Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Lars von        Trier's supremely stylish thriller was shot entirely in sepia tone, with         occasional streaks of light blue. Michael Elphick plays a cop assigned to the    Lotto Murders--a diabolical slaughter of young girls. Traumatized by grotesque visions of a post-apocalyptic Europe, the policeman becomes obsessed with the  criminal mind he is investigating. A surreal, intelligent and, at times,       amusing psychological mystery from one of the boldest talents of contemporary    Lars von Trier---Denmark---1984---104 mins.
EPIDEMIC: LARS VON TRIER
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The second entry in Lar von Trier's Europa trilogy, this early,            experimental film reveals much of the stylistic vision of the Danish             artist/filmmaker who would go on to direct Zentropa, Dancer in the Dark    and Dogville. Von Trier stars as a film director who, along with a       fellow writer, creates a screenplay about a plague that engulfs Europe, only   to see the invented scenario manifest itself. Alternating between grainy 16mm  and crisp, majestic scenes filmed in 35mm, Von Trier creates a dark and          strangely funny film whose horror lies in its own mysteries with a disturbing  ending that must be seen. Co-stars Udo Kier. In Danish and English with        Lars von Trier---Denmark---1987---106 mins.
EUROPA / ZENTROPA (CRITERION)
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Also known as Zentropa, this stylistically daring work is set in a         bleak, defeated Germany. A young American of German ancestry apprentices as a    railway porter. He is seduced by a mysterious heiress whose father owns the      line and becomes a pawn in a mysterious web of intrigue and deceit. With Jean  Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, and Eddie Constantine. Narrated by Max    von Sydow. "A movie cultist's dream...it plays like an ideal collaboration     between Wim Wenders and David Lynch" (The Washington Post). Winner of      the Jury Prize and the Technical Grand Prize at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. In English and German with optional English subtitles.                         Lars von Trier---Denmark/France/Sweden/Germany---1991---107 mins.
FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS
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Notorious director Lars von Trier (Dogville, Breaking the Waves) dons      the devil's mask and puts one of his idols, Danish filmmaker Jorgen Leth, to     the test in this ingenious pseudo-documentary. Calling himself the Obstructor,   von Trier challenges Leth to remake his 1967 short, The Perfect Human,   five times and sets bizarre, arbitrary constraints to limit Leth's creativity, including shooting in locales around the world, using animation, shooting one  film with no shot longer than 12 frames, and more. A brilliant examination of    the nature of cinema, art and the creation process. "Watching The Five      Obstructions is at once like witnessing two chess masters playing dominoes  and like spying on a series of therapy sessions" (A.O. Scott, The New York  Lars von Trier/Jorgen Leth---Denmark---2004---90 mins.
IDIOTS ( VON TRIER )
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Lars von Trier's extremely controversial black comedy caused an uproar at film   festivals around the world and ran afoul of censor boards in various             countries. The film follows a band of good-looking young adults who make a       crusade of "spazzing," or pretending to be mentally or physically disabled, in public places. Is their mission simply to upset the bourgeoisie, or are there  deeper motives at work? This outrageous, sexually explicit, uncomfortably      ambiguous feature (made under the Dogme 95 banner) is nothing if not bold.       "Here's a movie that has the strange effect of being brilliant and despicably  smug at the same time...fascinating and curiously liberating" (Peter Stack,    San Francisco Chronicle). In Danish with English subtitles.              Lars von Trier---Denmark/Netherlands---1998---117 mins.
IDIOTS, THE
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Lars von Trier's extremely controversial black comedy caused an uproar at film   festivals around the world and ran afoul of censor boards in various             countries. The film follows a band of good-looking young adults who make a       crusade of "spazzing," or pretending to be mentally or physically disabled, in public places. Is their mission simply to upset the bourgeoisie, or are there  deeper motives at work? This outrageous, sexually explicit, uncomfortably      ambiguous feature (made under the Dogme 95 banner) is nothing if not bold.       "Here's a movie that has the strange effect of being brilliant and despicably  smug at the same time...fascinating and curiously liberating" (Peter Stack,    San Francisco Chronicle). In Danish with English subtitles.              Lars von Trier---Denmark/Netherlands---1998---117 mins.
KINGDOM (VON TRIER)
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Lars von Trier's audacious soap opera is set in Copenhagen's Kingdom Hospital, in which a ghost haunts its corridors, and doctors turn to exorcism and voodoo.
KINGDOM, THE (1&2)
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This set includes Series One and Series Two of Lars von Trier's audacious and    inspired soap opera set in Copenhagen's Kingdom Hospital, which is ailing.       Once a respected site of healing, it has become a carnival of horrors. A         restless ghost haunts its corridors crying for redemption. Patients try        seances while doctors turn to exorcism and voodoo. Despite these efforts, the  terrible secret at the heart of The Kingdom (Riget, 1994, 265      mins.) remains and continues to ensnare the innocent. Almost three years afte  r the original airing of his cult soap opera miniseries, writer-director Lars    von Trier returned with the sequel, The Kingdom II (Riget II,      1997, 291 mins.). Once again, dark comedy and supernatural horror prowl the    hallways of the hospital. The birthing of a notorious murderer's child has   the doctors on edge. Chief Resident Helmer, played by the late Ernst-Hugo          Jaregard, knows the perfect way to ease his staff--he'll turn them into        zombies with a Haitian voodoo potion, naturally. "As outrageous as it is       inexhaustibly inventive" (The New York Times). In Danish with Englis  h    Lars von Trier---Denmark---1994/1997---556 mins.
KINGDOM, THE (SERIES 2)
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Almost three years after the original airing of his cult soap opera,             Riget, writer-director Lars von Trier returned with this sequel. Once      again, dark comedy and supernatural horror prowl the hallways of Copenhagen's    Kingdom Hospital. The birthing of a notorious murderer's child has doctors on  edge. Chief Resident Helmer, played by the late Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, knows the perfect way to ease his staff--he'll turn them into zombies with a Haitian     voodoo potion, naturally. "As outrageous as it is inexhaustibly inventive"       (The New York Times). In Danish with English subtitles.                  Lars von Trier---Denmark---1997---291 mins.
LARS VON TRIER'S EUROPE TRILOGY
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Three daring, stylish films from Danish provocateur Lars von Trier: Element of Crime (1984), Epidemic (1987), and Europa (1991). (NTSC copies sold separately.)
MANDERLAY
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This controversial shot across the bow is the second in Lars von Trier's proposed trilogy of films to cynically skewer American hypocrisy. Shot in the same skeletal, stage-bound manner as Dogville, the film picks up where that screed left off, with Grace (now played by Bryce Dallas Howard) and her father (Willem Dafoe) wandering into an early 20th century Southern community that still embraces slavery. Grace pleads for fair treatment for the workers, and ends up becoming central to the town's uneasy lurch forward. The star-studded cast includes Isaach de Bankole, Danny Glover, Lauren Bacall, John Hurt, Udo Kier, and Chloe Sevigny. "[von Trier's] most streamlined and subversive provocation to date" (Premiere).                              Lars von Trier---Denmark---2005---139 mins.
MEDEA (VON TRIER DVD-R)
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Loosely adapted from the play by Euripides, this brilliantly original exploration of a woman scorned unfolds in shimmering North Sea marshlands.
MELANCHOLIA
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The subject of Lars von Trier's most accessible and beautiful film in years is the end of the world. On what should be the happiest night of her life, a beautiful bride (Kirsten Dunst) battles with her depression, and a rogue planet emerges from behind the sun on a collision course with Earth. As crushing as that sounds, the cosmic showdown is dwarfed by the pained relationship of the bride and her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg). With Alexander Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgard, Udo Kier, and Kiefer Sutherland. Winner of Best Actress at Cannes. In English.

Lars von Trier---Denmark/Sweden---2011---136 mins.