Of all the actresses he exploited, I feel sorry for Bryce Dallas Howard the most.

by Anonymous

reply 25

September 24, 2022 10:21 AM

Using the word “actress” in this context is a bit of an overstatement.

by Anonymous

reply 1

May 18, 2020 6:32 AM

I fucking can’t stand von Trier’s work. Such pretentious, misanthropic garbage.

by Anonymous

reply 2

May 18, 2020 6:37 AM

I feel sorriest for the donkey von Trier had killed for a scene in Manderlay...which was then cut before the film was released.

by Anonymous

reply 3

May 18, 2020 6:54 AM

Rubes. Philistines. Von Trier is a visionary.

R2 Are you the "I want to FEEL GOOD" movie queen?

by Anonymous

reply 4

May 18, 2020 7:00 AM

OP - sorry but I have to ask, why? What did he make Bryce do in the movie?

I've refused to see a Lars Von Trier film since Breaking the Waves. Among other things, his hand-held camera gave me a raging headache by the time I was walking out of the theater.

by Anonymous

reply 5

May 18, 2020 7:17 AM

His films show just how much he hates women.

by Anonymous

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May 18, 2020 9:02 AM

Björk vowed to never act again after her experience in Dancer In The Dark.

[quote] “After each take the director ran up to me and wrapped his arms around me for a long time in front of all crew or alone and stroked me sometimes for minutes against my wishes,” [bold] Björk said. “While filming in Sweden, he threatened to climb from his room´s balcony over to mine in the middle of the night with a clear sexual intention, while his wife was in the room next door.”[/bold]

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reply 7

May 18, 2020 11:23 AM

What did he do to Bryce??

by Anonymous

reply 11

May 18, 2020 2:05 PM

I felt bad for Kristen Dunst who had to sit next to him at the Melancholia press conference and all that nonsense about Hitler. That look on her face....

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reply 12

May 18, 2020 2:37 PM

R9 R12 Oh, please. There's more Hitleresque language used on this board when it comes to the homeless, the Chinese and blacks in a completely serious manner than even conservative propaganda networks are comfortable spouting off these days. His bombed attempt at humor and the subsequent floundering also is reminiscent of a Datalounger.

He apologized the next day, which often Nazis do not.

by Anonymous

reply 13

May 18, 2020 3:20 PM

I see that the person who uploaded the clip in R12 is claiming Von Trier is just a provocateur - I get sick of hearing bad behaviour get explained away in that way. He wasn't making anyone think differently about something. People say the same thing about Serge Gainsbourg and all the disgusting things he said. Dégueulasse!

by Anonymous

reply 14

February 20, 2021 8:46 AM

Howard was nude in the film and there was a quasi rape/aggressive sex scene with she and Isaach de Bankole. Disturbing. Chloe Sevigny showed up for maybe 5 minutes of screen time, some of it in blackface. Gross movie.

by Anonymous

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February 20, 2021 8:58 AM

I think he humiliated Emily Watson the most. She’s homely as hell in all these nude sex scenes, playing developmentally disabled, hooking, riding a kids bike in fishnets and a hookers outfit... REALLY? None of that’s supposed to veer over into comedy? We’d watch it as kids and howl!

by Anonymous

reply 17

February 20, 2021 9:08 AM

He also humiliated Stacy Martin and to a lesser degree, Riley Keough if you ask me. Shit. Charlotte Gainsbourg ( I think knew she was doing comedy)

by Anonymous

reply 18

February 20, 2021 9:10 AM

Isn’t he one of the foremost practitioners of DOGMA?

by Anonymous

reply 19

February 20, 2021 10:13 AM

[quote]I felt bad for Kristen Dunst who had to sit next to him at the Melancholia press conference and all that nonsense about Hitler. That look on her face....

That probably cost her an Oscar nomination. She had already won Best Actress at Cannes and was getting critic award attention and this killed any momentum.

by Anonymous

reply 20

February 20, 2021 10:43 AM

[quote] Von Trier is a visionary.

Von Trier is a pain in my intestines. Von Trier hired Plastic Nicole Kidman.

by Anonymous

reply 21

September 24, 2022 9:07 AM

Crucify me, but I think most of his films are brilliant. Breaking the Waves and Melancholia are masterpieces for a variety of reasons (partly the performances, which are exceptional). Antichrist is also one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen, and also features tour-de-force acting.

by Anonymous

reply 22

September 24, 2022 9:12 AM

Say what you will about Nicole Kidman but she had the sense to walk away from this self proclaimed Nazi.

I think he recently announced that he has Parkinson's disease. Thought and prayers.

by Anonymous

reply 23

September 24, 2022 9:16 AM

R22, completely agree, in my case is Dogville and Melancholia. In any event it is possible to like the movies and not admire the author.

by Anonymous

reply 24

September 24, 2022 9:21 AM

I like Bryce Dallas Howard. A rare case of nepotism gone good. She was pretty amazing as the villain in the Help (should have gotten an Oscar nom) and she has a small but really powerful scene in the movie Hereafter. Matt Damon and his big butt played a psychic who had been a tv star and and hated it and left and tried to lead a normal life. She played a woman that he met in a cooking class and they were on the way to starting a new romance. When she found out he was a former tv psychic, she playfully insisted he do something to demonstrate it for her and he didn't want to, and when he did, he ended up telling her that he was being contacted by her dead father (or mother? I can't remember) and that they loved her, but they were sorry for what they did (or didn't do to protect her). With absolutely no dialogue she was able to convey that he knew that her father had molested her as a kid. And she was embarrassed and ended up leaving his apartment, and that was the end of her character. But the way she managed to connect everything, the excitement about meeting a psychic, the giddiness of hearing from a dead relative, the dawning look on her face that she realized Matt Damon knew what happened to her, and the embarrassment and need to leave. It was pretty traumatic. And she did it without saying a single word.

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September 24, 2022 10:21 AM