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Lars von trier "antichrist"

I've been watching the "Antichrist" trailers repeatedly.

While "Knowing" was the first real blockbuster shot on Red... This looks like it might be the first cinematic masterpiece shot on Red.
 
Lars von Trier is a sort of wunderkind and genius.

Unfortunately and sadly that he didn't win a good reception on this forum even with the members like a filmmakers' gang, etc,...

But he is one of Cannes darlings, also one time Palm d'Or Winner and twice like a Nomenee...

So he is always a serious player at this World's famous and very important film festival.
 
Actually Jens Jakob is right. Form IS his religion.

Watch all his films and you'll see he has decided for something as a rule for the making of that distinctive film. What's even more so - he sticks to it without breaking the form what so ever.

filmmaker's gang said:
man.. what a joke.. probably you misunderstood every piece of the code once you lack the enigma machine.. have a try to speak about what you know.. you have no idea about what you posted.. "do not know his work and his history".. gimme a break.. who knows if you were not born yet when I met him first time.
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Obviously Lars is not stupid guy and he has a talent that draws a lot of attention at Cannes for years.

I'm sure he is going to get something this year again with Antichrist movie.

And we (RED users) will get something out of it too and our beloved digital camera would get better recognition in the motherland of film (means France and wider Europe).

It will make our RED1 life much easier...
 
I'll repeat Jason's request and say please keep the discussion professional even when you're getting emotional. It's hard not to have a strong opinion when it comes to Lars but don't let the discussion delve into personal attacks. I cleaned up this thread.
 
One more thing or the two pictures without a comment:

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Lars von Trier

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Alfred Hitchock
 
Gabe S. said:
Some early buzz on the movie. Interesting read...
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/17/early-buzz-lars-von-triers-antichrist/#more-28429
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The reports told us that Lars did the most provocative movie of the festival.

Don't forget that his latest movie was shot on RED1 the biggest digital camera provocation in the last couple of years (What a scam camera!!!).

All very good for us RED Users, especially in Europe...

"Today's in-Competition presentation of Antichrist is the occasion for the Danish director and veteran of many Cannes Festivals Lars von Trier to return.
In 2000, Von Trier walked away with the Palme d'Or for Dancers in the Dark, and in 1996, he obtained the Grand Prix du Jury for Breaking the Waves.
Europa garnered a Prix du Jury in 1991. To round out the history of the awards, Element of Crime (1984) was given the Grand Prix de la Commission Supérieure Technique. "

LINK>>>
 
Love Lars Von Triers work. Didn't like The Idiots though, but I love many of his other movies (Dogville, Dancer in the Dark, Element of Crime, ...). Not always movies you like to pop in every time, but always interesting.
I always like to hear Lars Von Trier talk also.

Very interested in seeing this, it's been a while, since The Kingdom, that he really tackled horror, but I'm pretty sure it will be really frightening.
His non-mainstream way of working, in combination with the horror genre will give a pretty frightening, but always interesting result, I think and hope.
(Not sure though, The Idiots I found to be a bore).
 
A lot of hand-held and slow motion scenes... of course all shot with RED1.

Watch the Interview: Antichrist from Cannes>>>


Watch the Photocall: Antichrist from Cannes>>>

Lars von Trier on the justification for making this film:
"I don't think I have to excuse myself… You are all my guests. It's not the other way around…
I work for myself, and I've made this little film that I'm now rather fond of. I don't do it for you or for an audience.
So I don't think I owe anybody an explanation."

Lars von Trier sur Tarkovsky, to whom "Antichrist" is dedicated:
"Tarkovsky, now, he's a real god. When I saw The Mirror for the first time on a small TV set, I was in ecstasy.
If we talk about religion, this is a religious relationship. I've seen his films many, many times. I know he saw my very first film,
and violently hated it, which I feel is an honest reaction. He's the generation before me. I feel related to him.
I felt related to Bergman also – he didn't feel related to me… If you dedicate a film to a director, then nobody will say that you're stealing from him,
so this was the easy way out."

Charlotte Gainsbourg on this experience:
"I think I was ready for anything. What was most difficult was not necessarily the scenes where there's sex, or where I'm in the nude.
It was the scenes where there's a lot of emotion and suffering. Perhaps those were more difficult to handle. But there was no special preparation.
One simply had to follow the guidance given by Lars… It was quite an experience, very intense. Not a lot of talking.
Something that I won't live again that soon, and I knew that."

Willem Dafoe on working with Lars von Trier:
"A dream! Charlotte's right: we didn't talk a lot. It was just all doing. I enjoy his company. I enjoy his sense of humor.
He's a great filmmaker… I'll tell you one thing real quick: he really doesn't allow any preparation or rehearsal before you shoot.
You walk into a room, and you start shooting. Now, maybe that doesn't sound radical, but if you've got a ten-page dialogue scene,
and he hasn't told you what the camera can do, or what you can do, or whether you should be naked or not…
You basically make the scene on your feet, and then he reacts to it. There's only two actors, and you do that day after day,
and you soon start to get very flexible, and very open to lots of impulses."

Lars von Trier on whether making the film was a therapy:
It's more the routine of making a film that is therapy: the routine of getting up every day, going to work… And that helps.
I don't think that the subject – I don't think that could cure anybody. If you meant, to get rid of all these nasty things,
I don't think so… I'm not trying to say any message. I have been much more clear and mathematical about other films,
as logic has been a bigger part of it. This is more like a dream put into a film."

Lars von Trier on the disturbing scenes:
"Not to show it would be lying. This is a very dark dream about guilt and sex and stuff, and well, it came in naturally."


Watch "Antichrist" movie press conference video from Cannes>>>

Watch "Antichrist" RED carpet steps>>>
 
I'm looking forward for this movie! This is, in my opinion, the most beautiful example of what the Red-One can achieve. Simply gorgeous photography!

Does anyone know how they did the foggy scenes in the woods? Was it artificial fog (I would guess so)? If so, how did they manage to keep the fog during the take if it wasn't shot in a studio?
 
If you look at the career of Lars von Trier from the beginning, there's a pattern: his work has always attacked the complacency or sensibilities of the audience. His model is not traditional narrative.

He actively works instead to offend the audience. This isn't surprising, in an age of aesthetic exhaustion, and aestheticized reality, and 15 minutes of fame. Outrage is about the only thing left. And he offends in various and creative ways. Sometimes through poor or degraded production values. Sometimes through calculated "bad taste". Sometimes with campy genre parodies. Most often, by presenting scenarios which are machines designed to torture women, in one way or another.

It gets complicated because, love him or hate him, whether he's the Second Coming or a clever fraud, or both, he knows the medium as well as anyone, so his work may offer all sorts of subsidiary attractions. But his films are intentional scandals, as much as they are movies. There will never be a consensus on the quality of what he does, because he's not striving for quality, in the traditional sense.
 
Sanjin Jukic said:
Watch the Photocall: Antichrist from Cannes>>>

Lars von Trier on the justification for making this film:
"I don't think I have to excuse myself… You are all my guests. It's not the other way around…
I work for myself, and I've made this little film that I'm now rather fond of. I don't do it for you or for an audience.
So I don't think I owe anybody an explanation."
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I know it's all part of the entertainment business, but those photo calls really look a pain to do.

I agree with Von Trier though: why should he excuse himself for his own work? If people don't like it, then that's that. No need to apologize, except if he would regret his own movie. But he's not the person to do that ;-)
 
weirdcrew said:
Actually Jens Jakob is right. Form IS his religion.

Watch all his films and you'll see he has decided for something as a rule for the making of that distinctive film. What's even more so - he sticks to it without breaking the form what so ever.
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jason is right.. so sorry but it's impossible to discuss certain kind of things among mounts and shims.. w/ the respect you fredrik know the gang has on you.. to speak about form as B&W is not speak about form.

is there anyone here who had heard talk about deconstruction? (sj you do not count.. :thumbsup:)

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27794

http://www.elupton.com/index.php?id=11

http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html
(me thinks the 2nd & 3rd periods say everything)

or Brecht (Dogville) ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht

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btw.. this poster here disagrees that LT had translated a full Derrida.. he destroys the form (in italic) as much as he can.. not sure if he exactly was the same LT in Nocturne (80s filmschool short) w/ which he won munich a year before of Images of a Relief also in munich.. or if he's the same today.. or will be the same tomorrow.. but the will of freedom was there.

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jpp.. you nailed most part of it.
 
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