Movies | May 18, 2009 | 5 comments

Director claims to be "the best film director in the world"

source: http://www.indiewire.com/article/von_trier_i_am_the_best_film_director_in_the_world/

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Not since James Cameron's "I'm the King of the World" has a director gone on record proclaiming his own mastery, like a shot heard round the world.

But Lars Von Trier, in order to defend the heckle-ridden reception @ Cannes of his new film 'Antichrist,' proclaimed his own admiration of his talent as a fact.

Is he, indeed, the best film director in the world? Can he really be objective about that?

And btw, when will a woman director finally say something so crass and yet so deliciously self-loving?!?
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5 comments // Director claims to be "the best film director in the world"

  • vonlove
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      vonlove  

    • Oh Lars, how I truly love to hate how you make me feel while watching your films! **with the exception of The Five Obstructions...ready, set, BE INSPIRED!!** You can be whatever you put your mind to, honey. Isn't that what the 80's taught us?

      @vistapoint, as for a female director so self-loving and arrogant (yet at times self-deprecating), try Catherine Breillat on for size. I think you'll find just what you're looking for. :)

    • 2 years ago
  • trelk
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      trelk  

    • james cameron was speaking in jest...for what he said was quoting a traveling hobo.

      did lars claim he was the best filmmaker in the world? the quote is not included. i will get on board with the idea that he is one of the most original filmmakers of the last 20 years.

    • 2 years ago
  • Pericles_Lewnes
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      Pericles_Lewnes  
    • trelk:

      The first two paragraphs of the article. First line of second...
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      The day after critics and journalists heckled and booed his new film “Antichrist,” here at the Cannes Film Festival, director Lars Von Trier stepped into the spotlight to talk about the movie. A loud boo could be heard as he entered the press conference room, eliciting a faint smile on the filmmaker’s face.

      “I am the best film director in the world,” Lars Von Trier proclaimed provocatively today when pressed to defend his Cannes competition entry, a quote that will surely follow him for some time to come. Later during the discussion, another journalist returned to that statement, asking him to list other filmmakers he also likes.
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      It's pure genius really...

    • 2 years ago
  • trelk
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      trelk  
    • trelk:

      thank you...i guess i needed to click the picture to get the full story.

      i do think he is a damn good filmmaker but i don't think anyone is the best. "best" only exists in sports. and even then it is contingent on a lot of factors that could change the next day.

    • 2 years ago
  • Pericles_Lewnes
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      Pericles_Lewnes  

    • He is certainly "Von Trie-ing" the constitution of the ANTICHRIST audience at Cannes. I think narcissism is a bit of an excessive tag for ol' lvt, but desperate deflecting bullshitter works.

      Lars Von Trier is who he is. He is a character. I guess what confounds me is that he is being pilloried for making (what sounds like) a "Tromaesque" movie with hints of Evil Dead, Cannibal Holocaust & Ingmar Bergman.

      He can't force ANTICHRIST into competition at Cannes - THEY chose it.

      While people meditate on Von Trier's claim to be "the best film director in the world," I would like to point out another part of the story...

      (From article above at http://www.indiewire.com/article/von_trier_i_am_the_best_film_director_in_the_wo...)
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      Von Trier has explained that “Antichrist” came out of a two year period of depression that he faced in which everything seemed unimportant to him. “Six months later, just as an exercise, I wrote a script,” Von Trier explained, in a letter that is included in the press kit for the movie (reprinted on the subsequent page here). “It was a kind of therapy, but also a search, a test to see if I would ever make another film.”

      “I would like to invite you for a tiny glimpse behind the curtain,” he writes in the notes, “A glimpse into the dark world of my imagination: into the nature of my fears, into the nature of Antichrist.” He calls the the movie, “The most important film of my entire career.”
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      Lloyd Kaufman would be proud...
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      Pericles Lewnes
      Current.com Indie Film Curator
      http://current.com/topics/77912881_indie-film/

      Twitter User: loopmovie

    • 2 years ago
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