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“If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.” — Lars von Trier

Posted on April 30, 2025 by sheila

It’s his birthday today. So … happy (?) birthday to this provocative sometimes-maddening always-fascinating auteur. Question mark due to the doubt that “happy” has anything to do with the Danish film director, who has been poking the bear from the … Continue reading →

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Lars von Trier’s Melancholia: Open Thread

Posted on March 16, 2018 by sheila

It’s hard to “get into stuff” on Twitter, so I’m opening up a thread to discuss Lars von Trier’s Melancholia. I reviewed it when it first came out in 2011, and I also wrote the capsule review of it in … Continue reading →

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Melancholy Manifest

Posted on January 16, 2013 by sheila

I first saw this film at the NYFF in 2011, and have seen it 5 or 6 times since. It won’t let me go, and some of its images have actually been incorporated into my own psyche. I have felt … Continue reading →

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Melancholia

Posted on November 15, 2012 by sheila
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NYFF 2011: Lars von Trier’s Melancholia

Posted on November 15, 2011 by sheila

Originally published at Capital New York, for my coverage of the 2011 New York Film Festival From its magnificent opening, reminiscent of a high-concept couture spread in Vogue Italia, with excruciating slo-mo, and a parade of surrealistic tableaux, all to … Continue reading →

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NYFF 2011: Melancholia: It’s the End of the World As We Know It

Posted on September 26, 2011 by sheila

The 49th New York Film Festival starts in only 5 days, and the press screenings have already begun. My first review, of Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland (with a little help from Charlotte … Continue reading →

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