Thoughts on Lars von Trier ?
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El Pistolero — 6 months ago(September 18, 2025 09:22 AM)
I saw Dogville couple of years ago and absolutely hated it. I am thinking of giving him another chance. What should I watch next?
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Loki — 6 months ago(September 18, 2025 09:34 AM)
I love his work usually, but I didn't like Dogville. I would say Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves, Melancholia and The House That Jack Built are worth trying. I love those movies. But I wonder if you have to like his style to appreciate them. And if it's his style you don't like then you probably won't like any of his movies.
If it's mostly the stark, stage set up of Dogville that you hated, that isn't present in these. -
Loki — 6 months ago(September 18, 2025 09:59 AM)
Yeah absolutely loved Riget. I haven't seen the follow up to it though, because I couldn't picture it continuing without Ernst-Hugo Järegård. The "Danskjävlar" routine is something we always reference here, when light heartedly bullying the Danes.
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Loki — 6 months ago(September 18, 2025 02:00 PM)
Hmmm. It's very different in colour palette, but it is similar in its unsettling, wierd vibe. It is a little anxiety inducing though, and I can't really put my finger on why. I think it's the atmosphere that has that natural effect. But not in a major way (like Uncut Gems, for example). It's just that creeping anxious feeling always in the background.
But yeah, I would definitely recommend this to Twin Peaks fans. -
Loki — 6 months ago(September 18, 2025 06:24 PM)
Say, do you like Nicolas Winding Refn movies? He's got a bit if a legendary rivalry with von Trier but if you like surreal feel films he might be another one to watch. Not weird in a Lynch way, but he definitely has a trippy quality to his films. Dream like.
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 18, 2025 06:34 PM)
Before I go way off topic… Kingdom Hospital was terrible. Haven't seen the original. Melancholia is rad!
Anyway, do you remember the website Nicolas Winding Refn had a few years ago? As I recall, it was him curating old, obscure movies and, along with streams of the movies there were essays, interviews, and all sorts of things. Anyway, there was one movie in particular from the '60s that was shot by student filmmakers very near where I live. I'd never heard of it before and it's available nowhere else. Here at least. It's on Blu Ray in Europe.
Draft Barron Trump -
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El Pistolero — 6 months ago(September 21, 2025 09:27 AM)
I actually haven't seen any films by Refn, but Drive and Pusher have been on my watchlist for a long time.
When it comes to Danish filmmakers, I've seen 3 films by Thomas Vinterberg - The Celebration, Hunt and Another Round. I thought all of them were great. -
/.ㅤ — 6 months ago(September 18, 2025 09:38 AM)
maybe Europa?
i've never been a fan of his and i find those who say they enjoy films like his are the types of people who like trying to convince you that they are smarter and deeper than they really are. -
/.ㅤ — 6 months ago(September 18, 2025 10:24 AM)
"I've never been able to appreciate any of his films, nor even understand them… I find his films affected, intellectual, self-obsessed and, as cinema, without interest and frankly dull… I've always thought that he made films for critics." - Ingmar Bergman on Godard
