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According to director Jacques Audiard's stunning new movie, A Prophet (Un Prophète), no one would wish to be in the shoes of Malik El Djebena (newcomer Tahar Rahim).
A low-level criminal serving a six-year prison sentence, he is at the mercy of the Darwinesque nightmare that is society behind bars, most particularly when he becomes the unwilling pawn of the jailed, Corsican mob boss, César Luciani (Niels Arestrup). As much as Malik tries to stay ahead of his situation -- using the paroles César has orchestrated as an opportunity to start his own drug-running operation, for instance -- fate, rival crooks, and the very smart César seek to intervene at every step.
It's a basic tenet of good storytelling that whatever plans your characters put into action, it can't hurt if things don't go quite as smoothly as anticipated. Sometimes, though, the brilliant, foolproof, fail-safe scheme that goes utterly and (oh boy!) horribly wrong is a story in itself. Moviemakers have taken good advantage of the irony, suspense, and drama to be had when a best-laid plan seriously "gangs agley," especially in these 10 gripping, and entertaining, examples:
http://www.reelzchannel.com/article/1001/top-10-uh-that-didnt-go-as-planned-moviesAccording to director Jacques Audiard's stunning new movie, A Prophet (Un... more
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Brett & Ellen taped this just-as-special ceremony last week at Denny's.
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For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesBrett & Ellen taped this just-as-special ceremony last week at Denny's.... more
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An hour-long in-depth podcast analysis of Lars von Triers ANTICHRIST + thoughts on why special-effects blockbuster 2012 is the most politically progressive film you'll see this year.An hour-long in-depth podcast analysis of Lars von Triers ANTICHRIST + thoughts on why... more
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“Lars von Trier doesn’t like to fly.” “Lars von Trier isn’t going to talk to a lot of press.” Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn’t talking to us doesn’t mean we can’t talk about him, particularly about his childhood. I have it on good authority that he refused to eat his sandwiches until the crusts were cut off, and he slept with a night light until he was fifteen.
Seriously, though, I came out of ANTICHRIST — von Trier’s latest film which has been freaking out audiences from Cannes forward — aching to delve further into it. And with the director (did you know he got atomic wedgies every day after gym?) unavailable, I decided to carry on the conversation with a couple of people who could provide some intriguing perspectives on the film: Monika Treut, director of SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN, GENDERNAUTS, and GHOSTED; and Steve Biodrowski, editor of Cinefantastique Online.
You can click on the link above to hear the discussion. And Lars, next time, we really want to get your insights directly. We promise we won’t mention how you were subjected to swirlies on a weekly basis.“Lars von Trier doesn’t like to fly.” “Lars von Trier... more
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Hello Hoboken!
The New York Film Festival is winding its way down and the most interesting film of the festival screened this past Saturday!
No, I don't mean Precious. God, who'd think that melodrama was even remotely interesting? No, Lars Von Trier's Antichrist had its' New York premiere at Lincoln Center.
But join us as we discuss the cinematic nature of David Letterman's monologue from last Thursday, the complexities of Lars Von Trier and why Antichrist is ultimately worth your time along with some lulls to get more beer.
Our guests include Matt Prigge (Philadelphia Weekly) and Jason Shawhan (The Tennessean, Interface 2037).
So listen on and remember: Chaos Reigns.Hello Hoboken!
The New York Film Festival is winding its way down and the most... more
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commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten
Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
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For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesIn Trailer Time we show you some of the newest trailers in the theaters and
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Yesterday’s screening of Antichrist was certainly something at New York Film Festival. It marked a couple of firsts from a nearly packed Walter Reade Theater, a q&a press conference done via Skype and my first sighting of Armond White. It was like Christmas mixed in with genital mutilation and acorns.
But we’ll get to Antichrist later. The main event of yesterday was LVT and a buzzed-up, caffinated crowd praying for a repeat from his earlier Cannes press conference. Everyone was prepping Flip cams, propping up recorders and I could do both at once thanks to my magical iPhone.
Perhaps the strangest part was the open disdain being given off from the crowd. While at the press conferences for Sweetgrass and The Art of the Steal, no one so much as chuckled unless the directors related some charming anecdote. In the set-up to Von Trier, the crowd was in stitches, heckling and calling out at the screen as Big Brothers Lars lorded over his people.
“I’m happy to see all you people in New York,” Von Trier said. “If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.”
That was the answer to a question about whether or not he was glad Antichrist had been making the rounds and was now in the city. It wouldn’t be the end to the minor technical difficulties that ranged from low-speakers to Huffington Post folks relating five minute long questions about Nietzsche, Von Trier’s view of him of the philosopher and then repeating the question. Twice.
That leads to another press conference favorite of mine: the “I have a couple of questions.” This is the preferred M.O. of Boston Herarld’s Stephen Schaefer, nailing three questions in a row the second he was called on like a giddy school girl. Asking if he felt Von Trier’s self as a director and thereby provoceteur would be ashamed since there were no walk-outs at the press screening.
“Did not notice any walkouts? Then I have failed,” Von Trier boomed from the screen, clearly accepting and discarding the loaded question with ease.
The crowd didn’t. Half a dozen jeered “Yes they did!” and “People left!”
Read the rest at Current_Movies Blog!Yesterday’s screening of Antichrist was certainly something at New York Film... more
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Lars Von Trier’s “Antichrist” is supposed to shock one to the brink of profundity. If one decides to see this movie, that is what he should keep in mind. It is not a comfortable film to watch and, as the viewer, one is drawn further and further away from his movie watching comfort zone. As the film progresses it drives away from concept story telling to showing graphic occurrences for shock sake.
In some ways like Paul Solet’s “Grace” (2009), “Antichrist” is an ambitious attempt from a director who has outstanding visual flair, innovative ideas for cinematography, a sense of framing style and contrast, and unfortunately the need for overkill that seems to void the film of the statement of which its mechanics were intended to lead. Where the weakness of “Grace” comes from thematic overkill, “Antichrist” instead violates all rules of visual temperance that most film incorporates and instead builds visual horror upon horror upon horror. The redundant shock competition of the last third of the film robs for fist part of “Antichrist” of its textured subtly and enjoyable dark macabre theme and leads it to being perverse, one concludes, for the sake of perversion. The images themselves are not offensive to me. “Antichrist” shows a considerable amount of intercourse, fetish brutality, penis, vagina, and even penetration during intercourse. Be forewarned.
...more at the link.Lars Von Trier’s “Antichrist” is supposed to shock one to the brink... more
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Hey Folk. Leave us a video or text review of the very controversial Antichrist, out now in cinema.
Directed by Lars von Trier. With Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg. This is the place to leave YOUR reviews for inclusion in the Upstream show! Let us know what you loved, or what you hated about the film . For every one of your webcams or every three text reviews that gets picked for TV, we’ll give you a £10 HMV voucher!
Whatever you want to say, however you want to say it!Hey Folk. Leave us a video or text review of the very controversial Antichrist, out... more
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The latest on the controversial Lars von Trier film...
"Censorship board declares no 'harm risk to adults'
LONDON -- It might contain scenes of sex, bloody violence and female self-mutilation, but the British Board of Film Classification said Friday that Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" is OK by them.
The British censor hasn't dusted off its scissors, allowing British distributor Artificial Eye to release the movie uncut with an "18" certificate.
The movie, which stirred controversy after screening In Competition during this year's Festival de Cannes, will go out to British audiences over the age of 18 unscathed.
BBFC director David Cooke said: "The film does not contain material which breaches the law or poses a significant harm risk to adults. The sexual imagery, while strong, is relatively brief, and the Board has since 1990 passed a number of works containing such images.' "
Cooke and company shied away from cuts, saying that the censor's lack of intervention on the movie "reflects the principle, strongly endorsed in a number of public consultations, that adults should be free to decide for themselves what to watch or what not to watch, provided it is neither illegal nor harmful."
The BBFC Guidelines for "18" rated works state that the more explicit images of sexual activity will not be allowed unless they can be exceptionally justified by context and the work is not a "sex work" whose primary purpose is sexual arousal.
Said the BBFC: "For these purposes Antichrist is very clearly not a 'sex work.' "
And while the film also includes a scene of genital mutilation, the BBFC Board "knows of no research evidence which suggests that the viewing of this scene would raise a significant risk of harm to adult viewers or to society, or which would otherwise justify intervention."
Curzon Artificial Eye CEO Philip Knatchbull said: "There is no doubt that 'Antichrist' is a controversial film, but it's our duty as a distributor to present the works of talented directors such as Lars von Trier in their original form exactly as the director intended. We fully support the BBFC's decision to allow people to make up their own minds about this film." "The latest on the controversial Lars von Trier film...
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Von Trier's film, imaginatively entitled ‘Antichrist’ has caused the kind of controversy not seen at the festival for some time. People are terrified, embarrassed for the actors, overwhelmed, distraught, disturbed, angry, entertained, unintentionally made to laugh, or provoked to think about the nature of existence. It seems that some reviewers both love and hate it at the same time.Von Trier's film, imaginatively entitled ‘Antichrist’ has caused the... more
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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?!?Not since James Cameron's "I'm the King of the World" has a... more
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With “Antichrist,” Lars Von Trier fully lives up to his reputation as an outrageous provocateur and master image-maker. Love it or hate it, boo it or applaud it-as audiences did both simultaneously after the world premiere here in Cannes-the film is the most shocking of the festival so far, with critics and journalists buzzing around the Palais post-screening in a newly energized frenzy.
Described in early reports as a horror film, “Antichrist,” certainly has its moments of shock and suspense-and a notable dose of body horror, specifically. But it would be wrong to liken the film to an “Exorcist” or some strange spin on the rape-revenge narrative (i.e. “I Spit on Your Grave”). While it shares some weird sexual politics with those movies, “Antichrist” doesn’t generate fear in the same way. In several scenes, Von Trier’s sense of foreboding recalls David Lynch, as trees, bushes and images of animal flesh take on a similar sense of uncanny dread.
The story stems from a morbid riff on Freud’s concept of the primal scene: The moment that a young child sees his parent’s having sex. But in Von Trier’s version...
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Lars von Trier, director of Dogville and many unpronounceable Scandinavian movies is releasing Anti Christ, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Defoe. I didn't blink for a minute 55.
Someone told me once that Willem Defoe is known for being 'the largest man in Hollywood'. Which didn't make any sense as he was pretty much the same size as Keanu in Speed 2.Lars von Trier, director of Dogville and many unpronounceable Scandinavian movies is... more
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