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Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall made her feature debut with Howard Hawks‘ adventure yarn “To Have and Have Not” (1945). The film was a landmark for the actress in both her career and her life, since it was how she met her future husband Humphrey Bogart. The two would become a legendary couple off-screen and on, making three subsequent features together: “The Big Sleep” (1946), “Dark Passage” (1947) and “Key Largo” (1948).

Despite her hefty filmography, Bacall received just one Oscar nomination in her career: Best Supporting Actress for “The Mirror Has Two Faces” (1996), in which she played Barbra Streisand‘s domineering mother. After victories at the Golden Globes and SAG, Bacall looked like a shoo-in to finally clinch an Academy Award, yet lost to Juliette Binoche (“The English Patient”).

Bacall also had a successful stage career, winning two Tonys as Best Actress in a Musical (“Applause” in 1970 and “Woman of the Year” in 1981″). Her...

The dinosaur-chasing actor will take your questions on her extraordinary range of stage, film and TV roles from Shakespeare to Black Mirror to Rocketman

The actor Bryce Dallas Howard may be best known to cinema audiences for walloping genetically modified dinosaurs, but she began in experimental theatre, then broke through on Broadway, playing Rosalind in a production of As You Like It. It was this which alerted M Night Shyalaman to her talent – he then cast her, without an audition, as the lead in 2004’s The Village, as a blind woman who lives as part of a curious sect in a remote community.

Ambitious choices continued, with a role in Lars von Trier’s Manderlay, playing the part originated by Nicole Kidman in Dogville, as an ally to slaves in rural Alabama. Then followed a reunion with Shyalaman for Lady in the Water, and a return to her roots, playing...

In Lars von Trier’s otherwise ridiculous film, Watson brings generous substance to a punishing role as a dangerously selfless wife

Lars von Trier’s deadpan-tragic fantasy of emotional pain from 1996 is now re-released as part of a retrospective dedicated to this director; it is magnificently acted, stylishly composed and entirely ridiculous from beginning to end. An operatically extravagant artsploitation ordeal that devastated saucer-eyed audiences at the Cannes film festival, Breaking the Waves won Von Trier the Grand Prix, though missed out on the Palme d’Or. It also launched him as a world-cinema superstar, though it is surely only the blazing passion of his lead Emily Watson that gives this film its substance; she varnishes it with her own luminous talent and commitment. It is perhaps to Watson that Von Trier owes his entire career.

Breaking the Waves is set in a quaintly imagined remote Scottish community in the...

Mubi has acquired 11 films by Lars von Trier for North America, including the director’s Dogme 95 entry The Idiots. It will release a new uncut 4K restoration of the film June 16 theatrically timed to its 25th anniversary, followed by an exclusive streaming release.

Other titles, most newly restored, include Dogville (2003), The Five Obstructions (2003), Manderlay (2005), The Boss of it All (2006), Breaking the Waves (1996), the Europa Trilogy, Antichrist (2009) and Dancer in the Dark (2000). Some are streaming on Mubi now, others will roll out on through September 2025.

Mubi acquired new restorations of von Trier series, The Kingdom Seasons 1 and 2, along with its latest season, The Kingdom Exodus in 2022.

TrustNordisk brokered the deal with Mubi.

The Idiots, which premiered at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, was made under the Dogme 95 school started by von Trier and other Danish filmmakers. It centers on a commune, whose members aim to disrupt...

In Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s “Pirate Jenny” from “The Threepenny Opera,” a peasant hotel maid avenges herself for the cruelty she suffers from her fellow townspeople by imagining a pirate ship that sweeps into town, flattening the village and everyone in it. So, of course, the Danish king of saintly put-upon martyrs, Lars von Trier, found this material suitable for making a film every bit as alienating to the audience as the works of Brecht: 2003’s “Dogville.” Von Trier also centered his film around a blockbuster movie star, whose under-a-bell-jar image he set upon to deconstruct: Nicole Kidman.

Freshly off her Best Actress Oscar win for “The Hours” and also out of her messily public but oddly inscrutable divorce from Tom Cruise, Kidman flew to rural Trollhättan in Sweden to get on a soundstage with a truly there-are-no-words-amazing cast: Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Harriet Andersson, Stellan Skarsgård,...

Oscar-nominated, Cannes Palme d’Or winning Danish director Lars von Trier has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

Trier’s long-time producer Louise Vesth at Zentropa Entertainment put out a statement on Monday announcing the diagnosis with the director’s blessing.

“In agreement with Lars von Trier, we want to inform you that Lars was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease just before the summer holidays,” read the statement.

She said Trier would continue to work on his upcoming series The Kingdom Exodus, the third and final instalment of his rebooted 1990s cult supernatural TV show The Kingdom which is due to world premiere at Venice at the end of August.

“In order to avoid any speculation about his health leading up to the premiere, Zentropa has sent out this short statement to the Danish press,” continued her statement.

“Lars is in good spirits and is being treated for his symptoms...

Trine Dyrholm on Margrete in Charlotte Sieling’s Margrete: Queen Of The North (Margrete Den Første) “When the costumes and all the hair pieces came along, I think we fulfilled the character together with Charlotte.” Photo: Samuel Goldwyn Films

Margrete: Queen Of The North (Margrete Den Første) director Charlotte Sieling and her star Trine Dyrholm discuss with me the costumes by Manon Rasmussen, the hair and makeup by AnnaCarin Lock, the choreography by Niclas Bendixen, the production design of Søren Schwartzberg, horseback riding, the authority and foresight of Margrete, and Margrethe II attending the premiere.

Charlotte Sieling with Trine Dyrholm and Anne-Katrin Titze on her design team: “What was amazing about it, was that before Trine came in and gave life to all this, was that it was so creative.”

Charlotte Sieling’s bold and beautiful Margrete: Queen Of The North, co-written with Jesper Fink and Maya Ilsøe and shot by Rasmus Videbæk,...

Exclusive: Tommy Martinez (Good Trouble), Emily Rudd (Fear Street) and Udo Kier (The Painted Bird) are set for recurring roles in Season 2 of Amazon Prime Video’s conspiracy thriller drama series Hunters, created by David Weil and executive produced by Jordan Peele.

The plot for Season 2 is being kept under wraps as are Martinez, Rudd and Kier’s characters. The first season of Hunters followed a diverse band of Nazi hunters living in 1977 New York City. The Hunters, as they’re known, have discovered that hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the United States.

Season 2 of Hunters, produced by Amazon Studios, Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Sonar Entertainment, is executive produced by Weil who serves as showrunner, Peele and Win Rosenfeld from Monkeypaw Productions, Phil Abraham, David Rosen, Jerry Kupfer and Alfonso Gomez-Rejon as well as David Ellender and Matt Loze from Sonar.

Sound of Metal writer/director Darius Marder joins Josh and Joe to discuss Lars Von Trier’s Breaking the Waves.

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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Place Beyond The Pines (2012)

Sound of Metal (2020)

Mank (2020)

Star Wars (1977)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The Father (2020)

Breaking The Waves (1996)

Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)

Repo Man (1984)

Paris, Texas (1984)

Innerspace (1987)

The Celebration (1998)

The Five Obstructions (2003)

Europa (1991)

The Servant (1963)

The Go-Between (1971)

Dancer In The Dark (2000)

The Idiots (1998)

Dogville (2003)

Manderlay (2005)

Melancholia (2011)

Naked (1993)

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Jim Jarmusch

Daniël Bouquet

David Bowie

Dogme 95

Tomas Vinterburg

The Paprika Steen podcast episode

Emily Watson

Stellan Skarsgård

Joseph Losey

The Kingdom TV miniseries (1994)

Helena Bonham Carter

Bjork

Nicole Kidman

Mikkel E.G. Nielsen

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The actor has made a film about fathers – including her own, director Ron. She talks about the racist role that caused ‘a disturbance’ in her soul – and why working with Lars von Trier gave her acne

When actor Bryce Dallas Howard started making the documentary Dads, her family was clear: this was not going to be about them. Her father Ron, the Oscar-winning director of A Beautiful Mind, was adamant that he wouldn’t appear on screen, despite having signed on as producer, while her husband, the actor Seth Gabel, told her: “Don’t make this ‘The Howard Show.’” Then, during production, her brother Reed found out he was going to become a parent. “I needed an expectant father in the film,” she tells me. “So I was, like, ‘All bets are off!’” Now her brother, father and late grandfather all feature in the end product, which is as frothy...

Lauren Bacall would’ve celebrated her 94th birthday on September 16. The Hollywood icon showed no signs of slowing down, continuing to work until her death in 2014 at the age of 89. In honor of her birthday, let’s take a look back at 15 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Bacall made her feature debut with Howard Hawks‘ adventure yarn “To Have and Have Not” (1945). The film was a landmark for the actress in both her career and her life, since it was how she met her future husband Humphrey Bogart. The two would become a legendary couple off-screen and on, making three subsequent features together: “The Big Sleep” (1946), “Dark Passage” (1947), and “Key Largo” (1948).

Despite her hefty filmography, Bacall received just one Oscar nomination in her career: Best Supporting Actress for “The Mirror Has Two Faces” (1996), in which she played Barbra Streisand‘s domineering mother. After victories at the Golden Globes and SAG,...

Hulu has confirmed that several of its original series will be debuting new episodes on the streaming service in July, including the first season of the highly anticipated Stephen King thriller “Castle Rock” as well as season 2 of the costume drama “Harlots” and season 4 of the comedy “Casual.”

And there will also be new to Hulu seasons of some of your favorites from other networks, including season 2 of “The Strain,” season 4 of “The Vikings” and season 8 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first Hulu appearances including the first five films in the “Star Trek” franchise and the Oscar-winning “Rosemary’s Baby.”

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Spanish distributor has released previous work from von Trier including ‘Melancholia’ and ‘Dogville’.

Golem has acquired rights for Spain to Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built from TrustNordisk. The Spanish distributor has a long history with von Trier, releasing the Danish director’s previous films Nymphomaniac, Melancholia, AntiChrist, Dogville, Manderlay, The Idiots and Dancer In The Dark.

In the hotly anticipated The House That Jack Built, Matt Dillon stars as a serial killer trying to commit the perfect murder over a decade.

TrustNordisk’s senior sales manager Nicolai Korsgaard negotiated the deal with Golem’s CEO Otilio...

Lars von Trier is officially being welcomed back to the Cannes Film Festival. Thierry Frémaux has confirmed Trier will return to the festival for the first time since 2011’s “Melancholia” with his serial killer drama “The House That Jack Built.” The film will debut in the Out of Competition section, which means it won’t be eligible for the Palme d’Or. Trier was named a “persona non grata” (aka. unwelcome at the festival) after he made comments referencing Nazism during the “Melancholia” press conference.

“The House That Jack Built” tracks the origin of a serial killer, played by Matt Dillon. The script is set in the 1970s and follows Jack through the five murders that define his development as a killer. Jack’s victims are played by Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Sofie Gråbøl, and Riley Keough.

Trier has a long history with Cannes. He’s competed for the...

Atom Egoyan on John Hurt in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape: "I had the great privilege to work with this astonishing actor."

Sir John Hurt, who died this morning on January 28, 2017, was given the honor Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2004. In 2012, he received a BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award. Hurt won a Best Actor BAFTA for David Lynch's The Elephant Man, produced by Mel Brooks, and a Best Supporting Actor for Alan Parker's Midnight Express, screenplay by Oliver Stone.

When John Hurt was in New York for Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer, we also discussed his work with John Huston, Fred Zinnemann, Richard Fleischer, Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, the triad with Lars von Trier - Dogville - Manderlay - Melancholia, and the genius of Bertolt Brecht.

John Hurt in New York Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

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Bryce Dallas Howard on switching from dinosaurs to dragons in Pete's DragonBryce Dallas Howard on switching from dinosaurs to dragons in Pete's DragonBob Strauss - Cineplex Magazine8/15/2016 12:12:00 Pm

She may not be on "Game of Thrones" (yet) but you could still get away with calling Bryce Dallas Howard Mother of Dragons.

Or Auntie of Dinosaurs, she’s definitely that.

Yeah, it can get confusing. But not just for us.

“When we were shooting in New Zealand, I kept making the same mistake,” Howard, 35, says with a laugh in a trailer on Southern California’s Universal City lot. “Over and over on set, I would be like, ‘Where is the dinosaur mark? Where do I look, where is the dinosaur?’ And they were like ‘Dragon. Dragon! In this movie it’s a dragon!’ I couldn’t help it; it was a very similar situation to Jurassic World.”

The actor is,...

The world's most dangerous theme park is open once again as director Colin Trevorrow's highly-anticipated Jurassic World makes its worldwide debut.

Do you remember the first time you saw Jurassic Park?

Digital Spy takes a look at what critics are saying about new dino Indominus rex, Chris Pratt as an action hero and whether returning to the world of Jurassic Park was a wise choice:

1. Digital Spy

"No spoilers here, but the finale delivers one of the most satisfying, punch-the-air-brilliant blockbuster pay-offs in recent memory.

"Jurassic World was never going to be able to top the original, but it's a sensationally fun follow-up that'll please long-time fans and bring a fresh generation to the party."

2. Variety

"Trevorrow, who turned heads when he was handed the Jurassic reins (after having directed only the modestly charming, Amblin-esque time-travel romance Safety Not Guaranteed), gives the movie a warmer, brighter touch, closer in feel to the original film,...

The world's most dangerous theme park is open once again as director Colin Trevorrow's highly-anticipated Jurassic World makes its worldwide debut.

Do you remember the first time you saw Jurassic Park?

Digital Spy takes a look at what critics are saying about new dino Indominus rex, Chris Pratt as an action hero and whether returning to the world of Jurassic Park was a wise choice:

1. Digital Spy

"No spoilers here, but the finale delivers one of the most satisfying, punch-the-air-brilliant blockbuster pay-offs in recent memory.

"Jurassic World was never going to be able to top the original, but it's a sensationally fun follow-up that'll please long-time fans and bring a fresh generation to the party."

2. Variety

"Trevorrow, who turned heads when he was handed the Jurassic reins (after having directed only the modestly charming, Amblin-esque time-travel romance Safety Not Guaranteed), gives the movie a warmer, brighter touch, closer in feel to the original film,...

One of the most iconic figures of Hollywood’s Golden Age is no longer with us. Today, sultry-voiced actress Lauren Bacall died at the age of 89 after suffering a massive stroke, multiple sources confirm.

Bacall is perhaps best known for her partnership with fellow Hollywood legend Humphrey Bogart, both on-screen and off. In 1944 classic To Have and Have Not, Bacall’s first big screen role (and the one in which she delivered her most iconic line: “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow”), the sparks between the two ignited one of the film industry’s most enduring love stories. The pair married the next year and went on to star in such 1940s classics as The Big Sleep, Dark Passage and Key Largo, staying together until Bogart’s death in 1957. Bacall was later engaged to Frank Sinatra and married another acting legend,...

Only a day after Robin Williams passes we now receive news that Lauren Bacall has died at the age of 89. The cause of death comes as a result of a "massive stroke" reports TMZ. The news was later confirmed by the Humphrey Bogart Estate on Twitter saying, "With deep sorrow, yet with great gratitude for her amazing life, we confirm the passing of Lauren Bacall." Born Betty Joan Perske, Bacall would later change her name at the insistence of To Have and Have Not director Howard Hawks. She was nominated for an Oscar for The Mirror Has Two Faces and starred in The Big Sleep, Key Largo, Harper, The Shootist and recently films such as Lars von Trier's Dogville and Manderlay as well as providing her voice to the English language adaptation of recent animated Oscar nominee Ernest & Celestine. She had been married to Humphrey Bogart with whom she...

Hollywood has lost a second iconic voice in less than 24 hours.  Lauren Bacall, star of screen, stage and television, passed away at the age of 89 Tuesday. Born Betty Joan Perske in the Bronx, New York in 1924, Bacall was discovered by director Howard Hawks' wife Nancy after she saw a photo of her in Vogue magazine.  After flying her across the country for a screen test, Hawks transformed Betty into Lauren and cast her opposite Humphrey Bogart in his classic 1944 drama "To Have and Have Not."  And, as they say, "a star was born." Bacall was a fixture of the golden age of Hollywood appearing on screen opposite Bogart, her first husband, several more times including films such as "The Big Sleep" (1946), "Dark Passage" (1947) and "Key Largo" (1948). She also starred alongside Marilyn Monroe in "How to Marry A Millionaire" (1953), with John Wayne in "Blood Alley" (1955), with Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood...

Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep

Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall passed away today at the age of 89 after suffering from a massive stroke. She was famed for her work in films like The Big Sleep, Key Largo and How To Marry A Millionaire. Working right up until the end of her life, she appeared in Lars Von Trier's Manderlay and recently lent her famous sultry voice to the character of the Grey One in animation Ernest And Celestine.

Bacall won many awards over the course of her career, including a lifetime achievement Oscar in 2012. During the early years of her career she was celebrated for her tough characters and her striking adoption of traditionally masculine clothing, though she could easily adopt to popular Hollywood glamour when she wanted to. She had strong politically views, speaking out against McCarthyism alongside Humphrey Bogart (with whom she had a legendary screen partnership), and campaigning for Robert.

John Hurt on Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer in New York: "He is quite different but technically, he is as clever as Hitchcock." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

At the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York, John Hurt and I met up to discuss his pivotal role in Bong Joon-ho's not so merry-go-round science fiction thriller Snowpiercer. Hurt stars with Chris Evans, Kang-ho Song, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer and Ah-sung Ko as the last inhabitants on an iced-over Earth. We also spoke about his work with John Huston, Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer, Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, the triad with Lars von Trier - Dogville - Manderlay - Melancholia, and David Lynch's The Elephant Man. The genius of Brecht combined with Michael Colgan's Gate Theatre may turn into a new adventure for the consummate actor.

When I arrived, John Hurt was having lunch while watching...

Lars von Trier will dive back into the horror genre for a film titled Detroit.

The Nymphomaniac director has written a script for the project, which is set in the Michigan state's city and will be directed by fellow Dane Kristian Levring.

Von Trier, who has never set foot in America due to his phobia of travel, previously directed psychological horror Antichrist and supernatural TV series The Kingdom.

Detroit was announced at the Cannes Film Festival, where Levring's Eva Green and Mads Mikkelsen film The Salvation is screening as part of the Midnight programme.

Von Trier won the festival's Palme d'Or award in 2000 for Dancer in the Dark, and was nominated for subsequent films Dogville, Manderlay, Antichrist and Melancholia.

He was thrown out of the festival and made "persona non grata" in 2011 after making a misjudged Nazi joke during the press conference for Melancholia.

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‘Nymphomaniac: Vol. I’ movie review: Lars von Trier offers his latest ‘little nugget of genius’ (photo: Stacy Martin in ‘Nymphomaniac: Vol. I’) It will be noted long after this review is filed deep in the bowels of some ancient digital archive of dead film critics that Lars von Trier was among the most controversial and brilliant filmmakers of the 20th and 21st centuries. This would not be a currently agreed-upon assessment of the filmmaker; nevertheless, Lars von Trier is an actual genius, as opposed to the myriad filmmakers called genius who are actually just clever. It should also be noted that I’ve been saying this about von Trier since the first of his Golden Heart films, Breaking the Waves, provoked audiences at Cannes nearly two decades ago. It’s a seminal von Trier movie that marked the initial international exposure of an artist whose work has been controversial for...

This modern classic about slavery from the thrilling Steve McQueen transcends even the searing preoccupations of his previous films Shame and Hunger

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The dirty open secret in the history of western prosperity is Steve McQueen's subject: unabolished and unchallenged slavery. Specifically, it is the slavery that thrived in an American era habitually known by an opaque Latinism: antebellum, although this is a story from the cold civil war that preceded the hot one. 12 Years a Slave is adapted by screenwriter and novelist John Ridley from the 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup, a black man born free in New York state, tricked, drugged and kidnapped in Washington DC and then sold in chains into slavery in the south. Chiwetel Ejiofor gives a performance of incomparable heroism and presence as Northup; Lupita Nyong'o is passionate and defiant in the...

In the history of indie film, sequels haven’t been very common. If we exclude horror movies, that is. And now documentaries. There’s Clerks II, S. Darko, John Duigan’s Flirting, Wayne Wang’s Blue in the Face, Lars von Trier’s Manderlay, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? and I guess The Road Warrior (and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome). There tend to be weird circumstances and technicalities for a lot of them, too. One of the purest examples of an indie sequel is, of course, Before Midnight, which is even rarer for being a third part. It’s possibly the most beloved and critically acclaimed film of the year, and it could very well lead a new wave of follow ups to indie favorites and cult classics that aren’t necessarily easily banked genre flicks. Back in May we learned of another indie threequel in the works, Hal Hartley’s Ned Rifle. The...

Bryce Dallas Howard in ‘Jurassic World’? Howard possibly the next female star in ‘Jurassic Park’ franchise Bryce Dallas Howard, Rush director Ron Howard’s daughter perhaps best known for playing the Vengeful Vampire Victoria in David Slade’s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, is "in talks" to star in Jurassic World aka Jurassic Park 4, to be directed by Safety Not Guaranteed‘s Colin Trevorrow. At this stage, it’s unclear what exactly Howard would be doing in Jurassic World — well, except that her (potential) character will somehow become entangled with dinosaurs and that there’ll be lots of green screens on the set. (See also: “‘Jurassic World’ director Colin Trevorrow. Why Him?“) (Photo: Bryce Dallas Howard.) According to various online reports, Universal had sets its sights on Bryce Dallas Howard a while back, but production was halted after Trevorrow took a pass on Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver’s Jurassic World draft.

Ja from Mnpp here, putting my lips together and blowing a very happy 89th birthday in the direction of the living legend Betty Joan Perske... that is, Lauren Bacall. Next year marks the 70th anniversary of her film debut in Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not, opposite - who else - Humphrey Bogart. And she's still at it, although her last disputably notable role was in 2005 with Lars Von Trier's Manderlay. (I haven't seen The Walker - how was she in that?) It's weird but when I think of Bacall I always immediately think of her as the suitably boring straight woman opposite a trio of over-actors in Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind. Why is that the role out of all her roles that I think of? Is it just I'd always rather be thinking about Dorothy Malone...? Tell me - what's your favorite Bacall?...

Vin Diesel has been teasing a role in an upcoming Marvel movie for a long time now. Just today, he all-but-confirmed to EW the rumors that he was voicing a character in one of the superhero-studio’s movies — probably Guardians of the Galaxy, probably Groot. This may be surprising, but it’s actually simply the next phase in an ongoing evolutionary process that dates back to the dawn of the new century. You see, way back in 2000 2001, Vin Diesel headlined The Fast and the Furious, a movie about fast cars and the furious people who drive fastly. Diesel left; in respone,...

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The actor famous for being game for anything talks about his passion for physical theatre, his attraction to strong directors – but declines to comment on the size of his penis

When Willem Dafoe was a little boy in Appleton, Wisconsin, he shut himself in a closet for two days. Nobody missed him. "It was a big family. My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to."

Maybe – and it's a theory that would get me evicted from Freudian analysis 101 – the abandoned boy became the inveterate pleaser of adults. Perhaps that early experience of neglect explains why Dafoe has so often been an obliging actor, ready to do anything to accommodate a director's fruity demands. Think Lars von Trier directing Charlotte Gainsbourg to crush his testicles with a block of wood in Antichrist; Madonna,...

Behold the first still released from Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac which will star Charlotte Gainsbourg (in her third collaboration with the director following Antichrist & Melancholia). These are the thoughts I had in actual chronological order...

• That's a really odd choice for a first still. It's a tremendously vague tease but better this than those movies which release "first looks!" that might as well be headshots of the actors, they're so generic.

• Remember when Laura Dern got high from inhaling glue in paper bags in Citizen Ruth?

• If that were Michelle Pfeiffer and this were 1992, a bunch of cats could run into frame and resurrect this poor soul.

• Who is this poor soul?

• This doesn't look as fun as the movie's title. Bleak it looks.

• If this movie is as good as The Idiots (1998), my vote for the single most underappreciated von Trier marvel, I will want to have sex with it.

Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained is morally comfortable; everyone is a victim or monster. But what I'd really like to see is Spike Lee's Lincoln

Quentin Tarantino may take the low road (trashy vitality, pastiche of already disreputable genres) and Steven Spielberg the high road – moral seriousness, historical scruple – but they have both arrived in the same territory this year, the subject of slavery in American history. Is the national shame better staged in good taste or bad, as solemn struggle or sanguinary panto? Perhaps taste is a misleading consideration, unimportant compared with a shared tendency to make things easy for an audience.

At the beginning of Django Unchained, the recaptured runaway slave Django (Jamie Foxx) is freed by the German Dr King Schultz, for selfish reasons. Schultz (Christoph Waltz) is a bounty hunter in need of help identifying three lucrative targets, and Django knows them. Two hours of screen time later,...

Quentin Tarantino makes a dizzy return to form with a horribly funny slavery western – and Samuel L Jackson is extraordinary as the ultimate Uncle Tom

When I first saw Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, I wrote that it was as deplorable and delicious as a forbidden cigarette. This second time around I'm still dizzy, from something meaner than nicotine. This brilliant and brutal revenge western, with its bromcom double act from Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz, is set among the slave plantations of pre-civil war America. It is partly based on the 1960s cult Django westerns starring Franco Nero (who returns in cameo here) and partly on the notorious 1975 exploitation picture Mandingo, but it's distinctive on its own fantastically outrageous terms: an audacious and horribly funny comic-book nightmare.

Tarantino, king of the comeback, famously returned John Travolta to the pop-culture frontline for Pulp Fiction and indeed renewed crime writer Eddie Bunker...

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Quentin Tarantino's brutal revenge western is a thrilling return to form with inspired performances from Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx and Samuel L Jackson

Quentin Tarantino's brilliant and brutal revenge western is a wildly exciting return to form: a thrilling adventure in genre and style climaxing in a bizarre and nightmarish scenario in a slave plantation in 1858. The movie is managed with Tarantino's superb provocation and audacity, with a whiplash of cruelty and swagger of scorn. It is superbly acted by Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio and, particularly, Samuel L Jackson, who creates a masterpiece with his chilling character Stephen, the grey, stooping servant-elder to DiCaprio's unspeakable slave-owner Calvin Candie.

Just to make liberals everywhere uneasy, Tarantino and Jackson make Stephen the biggest, nastiest "Uncle Tom" ever: utterly loyal to his white master, and severe in his management of the below-stairs race in the Big House.

What's old is gloriously new again in Joe Wright's magnificent "Anna Karenina." He boldly conveys the complexity of Tolstoy's epic love story through the simplicity of a puppet-like theater, compressing time and collapsing space in a real theater. It's an elegant metaphor depicting 19th century Russian society rotting from the inside out. Yet it's wholly cinematic in its theatrical approach, evoking Olivier's "Henry V" and Powell and Pressburger's "The Red Shoes," among others, and production designer Sarah Greenwood is the first to admit that it would've been a mistake to make a traditional period adaptation. "There was talk of doing the paired down minimalism of Lars von Trier's 'Manderlay,' but it was not firm so we carried down a conventional route," Greenwood explains. "But shooting in Russia and how much it cost and the epic quality of the book and how we translate that into a 12-week.

• Woody Harrelson and Martin Sheen are set to star in the drama September Morn, framed around the events of Sept. 11, 2001. B.J. Davis is directing from a screenplay by Howard Cohen. The movie revolves around a group that questions the independent investigation into the terrorist attacks. Harrelson has been making comic waves recently as a killer crime boss in the bloody comedy Seven Psychopaths.

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• Comedic blondie Elizabeth Banks has signed on to star in the comedy Walk of Shame, about a news anchor who goes on a zany trek across Los Angeles after a booze-filled one-night stand. Filmmaker Steve Brill is...

Manderlay and Antichrist’s Willem Dafoe is re-teaming with so-called ‘controversial’ Danish director Lars von Trier for erotic drama Nymphomaniac, currently shooting in and around Cologne, Germany.

Joining the final round of announcement are: German actor Udo Kier, who has appeared in most of Lars von Trier’s films; French actor Jean-Marc Barr, who worked with von Trier on Dogville, Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves, as well as Caroline Goodall (Schindler’s List) and Kate Ashfield (Shaun of the Dead), Saskia Reeves (Butterfly Kiss) and lastly, Danish writer/director/actor Omar Shargawi (R).

However, Nicole Kidman, who had long been rumored as another possible addition to the Nymphomaniac cast, has dropped out.

Von Trier’s two-part erotic epic previously announced cast members are Charlotte Gainsbourg, the film’s lead, Jo, a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac who tells her story to an older bachelor, played by Stellan Skarsgard; Shia Labeouf,...

With production now underway, the cast for Lars Von Trier's upcoming hard- and soft-core erotic drama "The Nymphomaniac" is in flux, with some regulars coming on and one big name dropping out. Rumored since last year, Willem Dafoe ("Manderlay," "Antichrist") and Jean-Marc Barr ("Dogville," "Breaking The Waves") are among the director's previous collaborators to join, while Nicole Kidman, previously slated for a small role, has dropped out citing scheduling conflicts with her currently shooting "Grace Of Monaco." You win some, you lose some, we suppose, and as a reader suggested (and it's probably a good guess), we think the recently added Uma Thurman is her replacement. The new actors to join Von Trier's set are mostly unfamiliar names: Caroline Goodall, Kate Ashfield, Saskia Reeves and Omar Shargawi. As you know, the movie tracks the sex life of a woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg) who recounts her...

Willem Dafoe and Udo Kier will reunite with Lars von Trier for his new film "Nymphomaniac," completing a cast that already includes Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Shia Labeouf, Jamie Bell, Christian Slater, Uma Thurman, Connie Nielsen and Stacy Martin. Dafoe reunites with Lars von Trier for the third time (after 2005's "Manderlay" and 2009's "Antichrist," which also starred "Nympho" cast member Gainsbourg). Kier, meanwhile, started working with Trier in 1988 in the film "Medea" and has since then starred in "Europe," "Breaking The Waves," "The Kingdom," "Dogville," "Manderlay" and "Melancholia." The film is described as "the wild and poetic story of a woman’s erotic journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe (Gainsbourg). On a cold winter’s evening the old,...

Cologne, Germany - Willem Dafoe is reteaming with Lars Von Trier for Nymphomaniac, marking the third film the Oscar-nominated actor has made with the controversial Danish director. Dafoe co-stared with Charlotte Gainsbourg in von Trier's Antichrist (2009) and was part of the acting ensemble in the director's Manderlay (2005). Dafoe, currently in Hamburg shooting Anton Corbijn's John Le Carre drama A Most Wanted Man, will shift to Cologne to play a supporting role in Nymphomaniac, von Trier's two-part erotic epic. Another von Trier veteran, German actor Udo Kier, has also joined Nymphomaniac's all-star cast. Kier has appeared

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After a brief and creatively rewarding traverse into the world of heady genre films with the rather great Hanna, Joe Wright returns to the period drama, literary adaptations with which he made his name.

After tackling Jane Austen and Ian McEwan in Pride and Prejudice and Atonement, Wright now turns his head toward the towering Leo Tolstoy and his epic romance Anna Karenina.

The story concerns the titular Anna played by Keira Knightley in mid 19th Century Russia, who is in an obviously loveless marriage to Alexei Karenin, a highly respected public servant who is 20 years her senior. She seeks to break out of this loveless marriage by following the precedent of her womanising brother as well as following her heart. Eventually, she meets a young Count Vronsky and the two develop a wildly passionate love affair which threatens to force them to the outside of distinguished society.

Scripted by writing legend Tom Stoppard,...

Production has already begun and a big cast is now in place, but Lars von Trier still had an old partner to sign for The Nymphomaniac. That person is Udo Kier, who announced in an interview with DreadCentral that he’ll be involved with next year’s two-part sex epic, making this just one of many collaborations with the Danish auteur. (For good measure, those others would be Epidemic, Europa, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Manderlay, last year’s Melancholia, and the TV series The Kingdom. Quite the resume those two have.)

Despite no word as to who he’ll be playing, Kier told them “I’m off now to Germany to play a part in [The Nymphomaniac] with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Nicole Kidman and the nice boy from the Transformers; he is playing in it.” For the love of all that is decent, I only hope he didn...

Today's Indie Beat brings the first official images from the upcoming film Where The Road Runs Out. The human rights focused film, features a group of scientists searching for redemption in Africa.

Here at TheMoviePool we like to talk about all aspects of filmmaking and movie news. To that end, we now have Indie Beat where we'll highlight some of the latest news, trailers, and PR releases from the indie filmmaker scene. So if you're an independent filmmaker and want some coverage on our site, be sure to drop us a line at jordan@themoviepool.com. Now onto the news!

Where The Road Runs Out, directed by Rudolf Buitendach (Dark Hearts) has become the first feature film to shoot in Equatorial Guinea (Malabo). The human rights driven drama has also been shooting on location in The Netherlands (Rotterdam), and South Africa (Durban). There are two African stars headlining the film,...

While Lars Von Trier is no stranger to attracting Hollywood types to his movies, particularly with his films "Dogville" and "Manderlay," you might think his upcoming, sex-driven "The Nymphomaniac" might be the kind of project agents keep away from their talent. Guess again. Shia Labeouf signed on earlier this month to the film being led by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stellan Skarsgard, with Nicole Kidman and Willem Dafoe both rumored, and while the latter pair are yet to be confirmed, Von Trier's next endeavor has just added a batch of talent, including two more prominent names. Tintin and Billy Elliot himself Jamie Bell, as well as Connie Nielsen ("Boss," "One Hour Photo," Mrs. Calloway in "Rushmore") have joined the film alongside frequent collaborator Jens Albinus ("Antichrist," "Dogville," "Dancer In The Dark," "The Idiots," "The Boss Of It All"), Shanti Roney,...

Any forthcoming specifics notwithstanding, Willem Dafoe is my two-word code for “count me in.” Anybody who’s seen the man at work — this would have to go past the Spider-Man trilogy, I’m afraid, despite his work there being unabashed fun — knows why that is; they get why he’s one of the best out there right now.

Anyway, Deadline reports that he and Matt Dillon are both signed to headline an independent crime thriller, Whiskey Bay, which Boondock Saints producer Chris Brinker will cut his directorial teeth on. Penned by Jonny Hirschbein, the picture revolves around “a veteran cop (Dafoe)” who uses “estranged white supremacist and ex-con, Jesse Wheeler (Dillon)” as an undercover agent against the man’s former Aryan Brotherhood brethren.

All that Dafoe love can only propel Whiskey Bay even further in my mind, though Dillon‘s not such a slouch, either. So long as the script’s “right,...

Lars von Trier will probably never make Wasington, and the USA: Land of Opportunities trilogy is simply going unfinished for the rest of our time. A real shame, too, considering the supreme quality of Dogville and the well-you’re-reaching-but-nice-job feeling one gets whilst watching Manderlay — a problematic film that, nevertheless, is still a better look at race relations than something like The Help. (The fact that Bryce Dallas Howard stars in both blows my mind, by the way.) Just the title of that final installment, the suggestions it makes, has me bummed such an enterprise never concluded.

I suppose this is the next best thing. Allocine (via ThePlaylist) picked up an interview Nicole Kidman conducted with French magazine Postiff, with which she revealed her brief participation in von Trier‘s The Nymphomaniac. The work will only see her reunite for a “few days,” and, given the two-film, eight-part nature of this film,...

A two-part movie entitled "The Nymphomaniac" that's aiming to hit the Cannes Film Festival in 2013...yep, that sounds about right for everyone's favorite (well, almost everyone) cinematic enfant terrible, Lars Von Trier. And now his brewing picture, which is set to star Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard and Willem Dafoe, may get a blast from Von Trier's past. According to AlloCine, in an interview with Nicole Kidman in the July/August issue of movie magazine Positif (print only), the actress reveals she would be working for a "few days" on "The Nymphomaniac." If that's the case, it would appear that her experience on the director's excellent "Dogville" was a good one (though she didn't return for the follow-up "Manderlay," instead replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard, while the third movie in the proposed trilogy, "Washington," never got made). That's all the info for now, and no word on what...